The city won't put in the sidewalk on my property so I'm gonna have to. What's a good foundation to use? I'm in Oklahoma if that matters.
The city won't put in the sidewalk on my property so I'm gonna have to. What's a good foundation to use?
The city won't put in the sidewalk on my property so I'm gonna have to. What's a good foundation to use? I'm in Oklahoma if that matters.
>$449 for 56 sqft of 2" concrete pavers
>$8 per sqft
That's fricking terrible. You could mix and pour that same 56 sqft of concrete 2" thick using 80 lb bags in a couple hours for less than $2 per sqft.
so buy cheaper pavers if you don't want to use 2x2's
Poured concrete ain't gonna be better than pavers, and 2 inches thick is gonna crack to shit fast
>Poured concrete ain't gonna be better than pavers, and 2 inches thick is gonna crack to shit fast
The point I was making is that for the same amount of money you'd pay for those pavers you could pour a 6 inch slab AND reinforce it with wire mesh.
Pavers are always better.
buy the concrete mix and pour your own pavers.
True I get busted up bags of 80lb Crete mix for almost literal change.
You sure it's not just overgrown with grass? Just call that youtube guy
You know that if you put in a sidewalk and someone trips and hurts themself, you're personally liable, right? Check with your homeowners insurance first before you do this.
I've got a sidewalk on the other side of the property, it's just missing in this section
It doesn't matter if you're just replacing a tiny section. Any work done by you and not the city is immediately your fricking problem. Especially since the city is on record saying they're not doing it. All Joe moron has to do is take one tiny little slip this winter and he owns your house.
Slip and fall sue happy people should be strung up from the street lights. And their lawyers too...
I don't necessarily disagree. The court probably won't take that into consideration though.
I agree with this anon. You need to check with your insurance company before you do anything, to find out what the limits to your personal liability would be should someone injure themselves on your handiwork, then discuss with the city what, if any, their liability would be, as well as who (you or city) is responsible for maintenance, before doing this.
>on my property
just put a sign up saying anyone entering waives right to be a clumsy c**t
"Private property, no trespassing" on each side of the section. Everyone will ignore it, but it means that those lawsuits get thrown out since the "victim" was trespassing. I'd be more concerned if the city was against it from a utilities standpoint (could be a gas, sewer, or power line that runs beneath they want to keep clear)
>"Private property, no trespassing" on each side of the section
It's not private property though, it's a public easement. Just because you put a sign up that says "private property" doesn't make it so, especially in a legal matter.
>someone trips and hurts themself
OP needs to trip on the edge of the existing sidewalk, call the city and threaten to sue them.
"What idiot engineering department would forget to finish 20 feet of sidewalk?!"
It's truly bizarre the ways beaurocracy works. At my work, we're not allowed to put a cabinet in one of the storage rooms cause otherwise it wouldn't be disabled friendly, so instead we just have boxes of stuff piled everywhere which is even less accessability friendly.
"Spirit of the law" doesn't come up much outside of supreme courts. Following the letter is the quickest way to stay out of trouble from a management standpoint. No matter how bugfrick moronic. This gets repeated over several generations until no one has any idea what the regulation was doing in the first place.
This is why you leverage, in writing, your municipality about THEIR complicity in injury or damage for not fulfilling their infrastructure duties. Definitely worth a shot before spending any amount of money over a postage stamp or gas to hand-deliver it.
>city won't put in the sidewalk on my property
Check to make sure they are fine with you building it within their easement. Just because they won't build it doesn't mean you are allowed to build it yourself.
You will also want to check the rules about maintaining it and decide if you want that extra bullshit to deal with.
EXACTLY. You will spend a lot of money to build something that the city will essentially own.
I bet if you take a sharp rod or something and poke into the ground where the path should be, you'll hear a thunk
its there just dig it up lmao
Do you really think the city came in here and poured a gently tapering wedge into you and your neighbors grass?
I've seen cases of "build it like it's drawn" result in stranger occurrences than that.
Looks very nice
Not overgrown with grass
I called the city and labeled where I wanted to dig and the only thing that got a flag in this area was this att thing in the ground
I'm hesitent to start though because of the liability - which is why I would not want to do pavers since they have a lot of little sections to trip on
ur only digging like 8 inches you'll be fine
heres some ideas:
fence off the area
plant a garden there
plant a tree there
just spray paint the grass pavement colored
You will be fine. If you see sand or some flags stop.
Otherwise go at her.
A sidewalk for ants.
the city is forcing you to pay for a public sidewalk? Do this.
Sir, why the frick do you care? What is the endgame? Is this YOUR property or is it the EASEMENT? This will NOT raise the value of your property. OMG YOUR A RENTER!!!!!
The easement is his property though
Really? And you have seen the property line markers? You have verified this?
You're one calling it an easement. If it's an easement it's his property. That's what an easement is.
If the city owns the first 3 feet of property past the curb, that's city property. Not an easement.
WRONG. I ASKED if it was an easement. Learn to read, jogger.
The easement is his property by definition
An easement is an agreement to occupy land you do not own.
The electric company has an easement to travel on my property to service the power line
Witness the american having a conniption fit over the idea that someone would have pride in their neighbourhood.
>pride in their neighbourhood
And why does it have to be about concrete instead of nature? I'd be more proud if my neighborhood had grass everywhere instead of sidewalks. You're an NPC.
TBQHDESU, I've prefer to keep pride out of my neighborhood.
plant running bamboo
>American infrastructure
Don't do it. Did the city OK it? Plus they will probably connect eventually
Even just having someone "slip" on the grass and get a day off work, documented, and then mention to the city that there really needs to be continuity on these sidewalks. Just need someone to go to urgent care with an ass bruise.
A letter to the editor of your local paper complaining of the hazard (in winter, have mud and footprints) would be one free way to try. If you build shit you are liable for it. Frick all that for something so trivial. Sidewalks help the wrong kind of people walk by your house. I chose a non-walkable area on purpose.
Truth. Ideally, OP would plant some kind of drought tolerant plant that's covered in spines.
What? YOU have to build it? But then, I bet, they consider it to be a public walkway - everyone - , like in winter if it's slippery, get injured... (...) so you know what I mean? It's your property, your ground and you have to pay for such cases. I would consider to check that with a lawyer to be on the side where you are NOT the guy that have to pay if something happens.
No handrails 0/10
Sick.
Why would you want a sidewalk on your property?
Frick em
>Who?
Everyone
some geolocator homosexual can find your house and shit on your driveway
Talk to your councilman. Multitude of reasons for this, judging from the cookie cutter feel of your neighborhood it's probably a former HOA that turned over mgmt to the city.
End game, don't do a damn thing unless the city ok's it.
Hopefully you don't have property tax where you live. Fixing shit will make them skyrocket.