Friend came over at noon to rework the plastic slab covers. But soaking wet, they could not actually be adjusted any better than before. Might have just as well left alone. Now the second overlapping cover flap has blown loose and I need to go out and re-adjust. No part of slab is exposed, just the upper overlapping part of one plastic sheet. Also possible watering down again will help make plastic sheets stick together better.
Put on full face respirator and dumped bag of gravel in wet/dry vac from June cleanup in trash. The bag had actually finally broken and now the inside of wet/dry vac is full of gravel dust. The bag was more than 50 pounds full. Did not want to put any more in next weeks trash.
Went to side yard to vacuum more. Just after I finished vacuuming in mid June, Ronnie got more gravel to put on top of beams. That made remaining mess even larger. So ten bags or more may be still required, in late June I bought 3 more bags for $11.
From one hour's worth of vacuuming, I made bag too heavy. So after putting 2nd vacuum bag in extra can, I broke bag open and vacuumed out about 1/4 into 3rd vacuum bag. 2nd bag will have to wait until following week's trash, and so on.
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Finished re-adjusting plastic and light watering around slab by 12 midnight. Now, finally, it's slightly better than yesterday. One problem this morning was you can't put bricks on top of slab, then wind whips up the sides moving the bricks around. Other problem is it takes time, lots of time, to get the plastic good. I sprayed some water underneath plastic too, seems to help make it stick and the two plastic sheets to stick to each other.
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