If you could afford it, I rented an electric jackhammer from Home Cheapo when I took out our delapidated concrete front steps. I'm thinking it was $30 or less for 1/2 day. Rendered it to softball-sized rubble in less than an hour with a whole lot less physical injury to myself :)
1-800-DIG-RITE...Yeah... Have you actually called them before? I was not impressed. They make it sound on the ad like you call one number and all the appropriate entities are activated to survey out all the lines and one day little colored flags will pop up in your yard like dandelions. Oh, no moosebreath. After the tedious task of actually getting your info, you then have to wait for callbacks from the utilities to arrange for a time for them to come do it. I started getting auto-attendant calls (which were pointless when you use an answering machine) and never got anything arranged at all.
I need to try again, I guess, since I am determined to sink the posts for the raised beds; but at least here in Midtown KCMO, the experience is NOTHING like advertised.
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Date: 2009-04-16 13:07 (UTC)1-800-DIG-RITE...Yeah...
Have you actually called them before?
I was not impressed.
They make it sound on the ad like you call one number and all the appropriate entities are activated to survey out all the lines and one day little colored flags will pop up in your yard like dandelions.
Oh, no moosebreath.
After the tedious task of actually getting your info, you then have to wait for callbacks from the utilities to arrange for a time for them to come do it.
I started getting auto-attendant calls (which were pointless when you use an answering machine) and never got anything arranged at all.
I need to try again, I guess, since I am determined to sink the posts for the raised beds; but at least here in Midtown KCMO, the experience is NOTHING like advertised.