although Eric preferred the style of this picture...
We had to clear everything out of downstairs, including the provisional woodshop which was moved onto the porch
This sand pile ended up about twice this size. My original plan was to screen the junk out of the sand, but it was taking way too long, so this sand has plenty of construction jetsam lurking within
After sweeping up, here are views looking into and out of the music room after sweeping up
The most significant flaws in the concrete finishing are in the main area of the main room (And on the eigth day, God said 'Murphy, you take over') ...
which didn't seem as bad back when we poured it in November, probably because we were just happy to have the job done. Now that we are getting closer to making everything permanent by putting sealer on top, we are more critical.
Carolina Concrete are specialists in finishing concrete floors. We got some test patches done and decided on using the "Mission Brown" color of acid stain, followed by sealer, followed by wax which can be renewed. All this was priced at about the same price ($6000+) as the sum total for all the concrete for the slab, the pumping service plus the concrete finishing crew back in Oct (as seen in my post from way back when).
They masked the bottom section of the wall and started by sanding the floor to even out the poor finishing job. Unfortunately this ended up making it even more clear how bad the finish was and how inadequate the sanding process was to rectify it.
So half way through we called a halt and started investigating doing a skim coat. Add $4000 to price of house - more than the pumping and finishing cost to start with, now $10K+ for the concrete finishing! Experience is what you get right after you need it and the moral of the story is: it is worth spending more on the concrete finishers to get a quality hand-troweled finish if you plan on having an exposed concrete floor.Meanwhile we've made some progress upstairs on the painting. The painters got the first coat of polyurethane on the trim lumber
And started on wall color. The east bathroom color
was more of a baby blue than was clear from the color chart - so that's going to get covered! I really like the laundry room color:
which is similar but a little ligher than the west bedroom shade (BTW, you can't trust the colors from digital cameras since they scale everything from what is guessed to be white in the frame).
Marty and Charla discuss the color in the workroom, which is actually a dusky rose - the camera just wouldn't calebrate this one right
Sunroom
East bedroom is a blueish greenish hue
And on to other problems: the patched radiant tubes seem to still have a slow leak - 5-10 pound drop per day. We need to do more investgation next week. This guage was reading full-up 100 pounds two days before this shot.
Today's nature shot: view from the porch of the misty hills on Friday morning after significant rainfall last week that had water coming down the hill where we've never seen it before.
And started on wall color. The east bathroom color
was more of a baby blue than was clear from the color chart - so that's going to get covered! I really like the laundry room color:
which is similar but a little ligher than the west bedroom shade (BTW, you can't trust the colors from digital cameras since they scale everything from what is guessed to be white in the frame).
Marty and Charla discuss the color in the workroom, which is actually a dusky rose - the camera just wouldn't calebrate this one right
Sunroom
East bedroom is a blueish greenish hue
And on to other problems: the patched radiant tubes seem to still have a slow leak - 5-10 pound drop per day. We need to do more investgation next week. This guage was reading full-up 100 pounds two days before this shot.
Today's nature shot: view from the porch of the misty hills on Friday morning after significant rainfall last week that had water coming down the hill where we've never seen it before.
