If you remember last year we had a concrete pour that didn’t go so well. Al Riozzi (AJR Masonry) admitted it wasn’t acceptable but wouldn’t fix it. We could have left it as it was but I felt that it might cause problems in the long term and if we were going to level it, now was the time.
Unfortunately for us we couldn’t fix it until now as self-leveling concrete can’t be used when it’s cold. It’s now warm enough, so today we took a stab at it. I wouldn’t say it’s a hard job but you have to be prepared. I’ve been watching youtube video and reading up about it since last year, but I was still a little nervous as most of these products have a very short flow time (10 minutes in our case). Luckily it went well, I had all the tools, buckets, product lined up etc. but most importantly I had a great team of volunteers helping me, so a big shout out to Joe, Deborah, Rob and Aimee. Every one was assigned a different task and everyone preformed flawlessly.
Music was requested by Joe.
My goal was to fix the floor in two passes, first pass was to fill in all the deep areas (shown as the darker areas in he contour map) and the second pass was to cover the complete floor with a final skim coat, re-priming between coats. My only mistake was not ordering enough product. I ordered 17, 40lb. bags of Henry 565 ($40 a bag, so not cheap) and I thought that would be enough – no where near and I think it covered about half of the first pass. I just ordered another 46 bags so hopefully that will be enough. Thanks for picking it up Joe 🙂
Even though we didn’t get as much done today as I expected it was a great trial run and everyone now knows what their tasks are and are willing to help us again. Incidentally all the mixing and product were laid down in under an hour, which was pretty quick. I think we all felt we could have easily have managed twice or three times that amount.
Returning to examine the floor on Sunday we noticed some wrinkling in some areas. Not sure what caused this but will ask the manufactures if they know. Second picture shows how it should look, nice and smooth.
Thanks again team!!!