On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:06:26 GMT, the infamous "Lew Hodgett" scrawled the following:
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>You
>didn't tell us what sort of details you would have missed that the
>contractors didn't. What's so important that isn't obvious (to me)?
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>Remember, "A picture is worth a thousand words"?
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>Go watch concrete being laid.
...AFTER reading a book on concrete work.
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I found Black & Decker's _The Complete Outdoor Builder_ for a couple bucks on eBay and it helped me with my first set of steps.