Weekend 10: Countertop Tile Demo and Offroading

We took a break this weekend to do some of this

Since the tile and countertop guys were coming the following weekend, we needed to demo the tile on the countertops.

Weekend 9: Some furniture, baseboard, paint touchups

Not the most productive weekend, but we finally have some furniture!  A couch, a rug, and some (temporary) chairs.  It's also our first weekend actually sleeping in the house!  A mattress on the floor, but it's a start.

Weekend 8: Floors done! Paint Prep, Paint

The floors came out a lot darker and browner then we thought it would, but we're thrilled with the result.  Because of the unexpected floor color, we decided to switch our wall color from the initially planned gray to bright white to create a bold contrast between the walls and the floor. We covered the entire house in paper, rented the paint sprayer and painted the entire house.

Weekend 7: Epoxy 2

I took the week off and headed to NJ for passover.  Don was kind enough to go to the house and lay down the second layer of epoxy.

No pictures from this week.

Weekend 6: Epoxy

We took most of the weekend off to go off-roading, but stopped by the house Sunday to lay down the first layer of epoxy.  The pictures came out dark because we closed the shades before we started, so we could leave directly after.

Weekend 5: More concrete grinding

Now that the concrete had dried, we rented the grinder one final time to prime the concrete for the epoxy, and to give it some texture.  Then we thoroughly cleaned so we could put down the epoxy the following week.

Lacy getting in on the action

Weekend 5: Jed Ross stops by to mix some concrete

After grinding away what was left of our souls, research revealed that short of making a deal with the devil (if you have his contact info, please contact me privately), we would never get rid of the waffle pattern of death, so we decided to pour a new layer of concrete using self leveling quikcrete.  We cleaned the floor, primed it, and poured an 1/8th of an inch of concrete.  Special thanks to Jed Ross and Roy Hartstock without whom we would have been &#$%#.  After mixing and pouring 26 bags of concrete, we were 2 bags short.  Roy hauled ass to Home Depot got a few bags and saved our asses. Thanks Jed and Roy!

Just where a man should be ... bearfoot and squeegeeing concrete