So the floor coating starts in the morning. Finally covering up the last of the ugly. Time to put this episode behind me and finish the healing process.

 

The surface grinding and patching are done. Tomorrow the color starts to go down.

 

Is that your original slab? Or did it get re-poured??

 

It's the original concrete. I had to have an engineer come and inspect it, and issue a letter certifying it was okay to build upon. The county required the letter as part of the building permit application.

 

Real curious how he would determine that.... Sure, cracks would be obvious.... maybe spalling? Or something else??

 

I think the only reason it wasn't ruined by the fire is it's reinforced concrete. They could tell since it was hard to grind.

 

The coating company had vehicle problems yesterday, and didn't show up. Hopefully they will be here today.

 

Their vehicles don't like the cold weather either?

 

They had to rent a Uhaul box truck, but they are here. They will get two coats on the stem wall, and a base coat on the floor today. Then a second coat on the floor tomorrow. 48 hour cure time before I can put a vehicle on it. I have my neighbor's tractor to lift the wood burning stove and put it in place. Mount the concrete backer board on the wall, hook up the interior chimney, and we are ready for final inspection!

 

Then you can start moving stuff in. Do you have benches, or whathaveyou, or are you going to build them in place?