Morgan takes the caps off the electrical inserts.

There were some rough spots.

We got back from a little spring break getaway last night and got our first look at the finished floor. It’s good, much much better.

A ramp had to be made of all available plywood and much of the available lumber so that a 1000-pound machine could make its way into the space. This effectively halted the framing last week, but that machine came through and polished off the rough and ugly remnants of a difficult concrete pour in December.

Getting at the smaller spaces by hand.

What we had saved, finance-wise, by not having a professional do the concrete pour, we have now spent getting it ground down and buffed– essentially a wash. We do have a somewhat prettier floor, though, because the aggregate now shows through– a look we like. Win!

Morgan checks out the new surface.

Aggregate and shine.

After on the left/Before on the right.