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Here you see the original 1926 one foot wide cement tracks that sufficed as a driveway for the last 65 years ... they were cracked and sinking in spots.  I dug 5 foot deep trenches for the drainage toward the front drain here to tie both drains into the house gutter drains leading to the street sewer and continued that trench to the second drain in the background and the gutter drain right in front of the garage door to keep rain from seeping under the garage door. The forms around the drains were meticulously placed higher than the drains to assure downward water flow to them.  I also added a sprinkler system line to the formed flower bed in front of the back basement window.  On the house foundation the faint orange snapped chalk lines are where the new exposed
aggregate concrete driveway will go up to.  The rebar every foot or so was drilled into the foundation on one side, the neighbors driveway foundation on the other side, the garage foundation in the back and the sidewalks in the front with the old chain link fence bet- ween us we took down providing a little more support to the concrete when it's poured.