Cedar Park Modern

09/13/2025

Well, it has been quite a while since our last post. We have had a few small projects we have completed, and we had some work done my Aquaguard on the pool deck and carport.

To say we had a poor experience with Aquaguard would be a vast understatement. I wanted to let everyone know how it was, just in case others are considering getting the same thing done.

You might have seen some videos. They drill a series of holes thru the concrete and inject a very dense foam that expands, lifts, and stabilizes the concrete. The adverts, of course, show very good results.

The guy giving the quote was positive they could lift and level all of the deck, even the far side that had settled a lot. Same for the carport, where the addition that we tore off had caused the carport to crack and settle. Took over 6 weeks to get a date.

He was wrong. I hate to say that he purposely deceived us, but it appears so. They were able to lift some areas and not lift others, so that the far deck is high, then low, then high. Just a wavy mess. They had plenty of excuses, but in the end that matters not. $6000 and 6 hours later it looks worse than when they started. I posted a less-than-flattering review and someone, an supervisor contacted me and wanted to send someone out for a look. The supervisor was pleasant enough, had a look, took photos and admitted it was not right. Said they would get us on the schedule ASAP to fix it. Couple weeks later they were set to come out for an afternoon time slot, which seemed odd since it took 6 hours for them to screw it up, so a few hours in the afternoon seemed dubious at best. Anyway, that afternoon came and went, not a call, not a text, not an email- nothing. Finally, after 7 PM they rooled up to the house. By then I was pretty angry. I am not sure what they could have done at 7 on a Friday evening and sent them away.

Just use some caution if you are considering having any concrete lifting, or jacking.

08/08/2024

A useful chart, or pictorial. When a design style is popular it seems that everyone wants to get into it, but many of us struggle.

05/02/2024

I must be doing something right.

03/24/2024

Ahhh, another peaceful Sunday in Cedar Park- you can almost hear the birds inbetween the nearly constant barage of commercial blowers, and gunshots.

01/09/2024

Over the holidays we had a visit from Roger Wilheim and his brother. They grew up in the home in the 80's and shared these photos and memories of a good childhood growing up in ths special place. Walking thru the place and hearing how they, as young boys, integrated the unique archetectural aspects into play.

We've had the pleasure of meeting, or hearing about many of the former occupants of this house and street and all of the memories make it even better.

Thanks to Roger for allowing us to share some of the images he gave us.

01/04/2024

Well, know I don't feel quite so bad about our DIY skills.

12/03/2023

Picked up a pair of Overman chairs a couple days ago. Now need to find a good upholstery shop. Any reccomendations? We used 2 other places in the past that were highly rated and one was a little disappointing, the other a disaster.

11/22/2023

Aside from perhaps a few touchups the terrace beams are installed. Cannot say it was fun. Although it takes no real skill, the beams are heavy for one old person, >100 pounds and making sure they didn't fall and destroy anything was a challange.

Most of the homes we see use 2x8 lumber nailed together which will fail over time but much cheaper than the 4x8 fir, which was about $175 each piece. Happy it's done.

10/22/2023

Fun times!

10/21/2023

Finally ready to replace those rotten front beams. Usually excited about a project no matter how difficult- not so much this time.

Having to do it twice is a drag.

10/17/2023

Right around the corner from us.

This 2406 square feet Single Family home has 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It is located at 4664 Cedar Park Dr, Stone Mountain, GA.