Maybe it's a stupid question, but every time I cover something with a tarp I feel like it's wetter than if I didn't.
The contractor left a ton of cedar fence boards from cutting and shaping the fence and I'm not ready to use them this year.
I was going to lay down a few pieces of scrap wood perpendicular, then stack the boards tightly together and cover with a tarp?
I want to fill these cracks to stop vegetation from coming through, but I don't want to do that to cause another problem. If the cracks are filled and the slopes are wonky, then water will sit everywhere.. I don't have the budget to remove and repour this 10+ yr old pad. It's just going to have a little shed and be my outdoor workspace, doesn't need to be beautiful.
Do people pour asphalt on something like this?
Currently digging out the pebbles because they're intermixed with dirt and the weeds were difficult to keep up with. I plan to clean them and put them back after laying some landscaping fabric down.
Is this the best way? Any tips or suggestions?
Grasses and weeds grow from the graveled front entrance to our home and it's a little uneven with some debris mixed in. I want to fix these issues while reusing the materials best I can so I started screening it through 1/4 inch mesh, catching the less than 1/4 inch pea gravels in a 1/16 inch mesh screen below while picking out debris and weeds.
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The top 1-2 inches is composed primarily of 1-in or less diameter sub rounded pea gravels intermixed with some smaller pea gravels down to less than a quarter inch diameter. Below that there is about 3-4 inches of the same gravels but intermixed tightly with silty sand.
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My question is this: what's the best way for me to restore it? Should I just clean the top inch or two of gravels, even out the sandy gravels below, put down landscaping fabric, then put the cleaned gravels back on top? Or do I need to remove more material, or?
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Secondarily, is there anything you might recommend that I could do to improve or creatively beautify it during this process?
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For a longer backstory. Our property was left unmaintained for some time prior to our purchase a couple of years ago. From our understanding, many years ago a caring owner had carefully maintained the property, but after they passed, subsequent owners and renters substantially altered portions haphazardly while leaving other parts unmaintained. At this stage it is very high maintenance and my primary goal is to reduce the maintenance level for now, while making gradual alterations. I do most of the work myself when I have time, I enjoy it and I often work with my wife while she gardens and my dad comes over once a week to help out, mostly with weeding and mowing, but we work together on projects too, it's really the only time I enjoy spending with him. So I like to somewhat methodically complete projects over time, producing results that are ideally low maintenance, improve use and access of the property and secondarily, help beautify it through simplicity and clean, thoughtful design. Very often reusing materials and finding interesting ways to use new materials or those laying around.
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