Thank you all
While the work slowly moves forward - there is a lot of wood planks I need and it takes time and daylight
- I am planning the next step.
The next step, that will likely wait till Spring is the gate. I have 14 feet opening that will be enclosed by two wings gate, most likely steel frame with oak boards, I have pretty good idea what I want.
But the gate pillars are problem. I decided to use 12x12x8 cinder blocks like this one:
but after checking with Home Depot, Lowes and various local brick and stone places I gave up on those. Just not available in Virginia. The new plan is to dry stack regular concrete blocks (8x8x16) around rebar and fill them with concrete. It would help with electrical boxes and conduit - yes, the wife needs lights at the gate
- and also would make hinge installation easier.
The last resort would be to form and pour pillars using concrete, but I just dont feel like forming 5'8" pillars.
What do you think?