03/07/2025
We got a message from a previous customer of ours the other night. They had shared this photo with us which looked like a large failure had happened in our walkway base construction. We have never had any failures using open graded base on any of our hardscape projects, so I was troubled and surprised to see the photo which was sent. Today I pulled back a few bricks and found a chipmunk had decided to spend the winter under my customers walkway. It’s very unusual to see this chipmunk sleeping in all of this stone. It’s also very surprising to see how much stone the chipmunk moved to cause the bricks to settle so much. Chipmunks don’t technically hibernate, they enter a deep sleep stage call torpor. We placed the bricks back and will come back to repair in a few weeks time.