So, you know what that means. Well, yes I am VERY excited that they're home, but that also means my dad can help work on the house! :) hehehehehe. I am ALSO excited for summertime to come soon because my mom said she'd help too once she's back from Washington full-time, yay for parental help!!!!!! I'm a very lucky girl.
ANYWAY, Saturday I wrangled my dad away from organizing the place where they're living and working at his job and asked him if he could come help Chris pour the concrete now that we'd demo'd it, hauled it all away, and prepped it. I would have helped, but I had work at the A's both Saturday and Sunday and needed to be there at 10am. So my dad came over shortly before I left to help out.
They drove to Larm's to pick up the concrete only to find that their machine was broken :( Larm's wasn't sure when it'd be fixed, so my dad said he'd come back Sunday to help out, and then he headed back home (he was only going to be able to stay a few hours because he had work later that afternoon). So Chris worked on other stuff around the house and tried Larm's again in the afternoon. The machine was FIXED!
So he got the trailer of concrete back to the house, and started filling up the big ol' hole in the garage. When I got home from work around 4:30 I saw this
Chris did a great job, it looks amazing!
(don't worry, we'll put in two seams for cracking. Chris was going to do that when it was wet, but figured it would just be easier to wait until it was dry, and then cut it with the concrete blade on the skil saw)Sunday it wasn't totally dry, still a little delicate, but Chris got started on installing all the shelves we built and putting together the wine boxes. I helped a bit after I got back from work at the A's, but I was only good for about 90 minutes before I started to get delirious from being so tired (day 15 of 17 with no days off, SERENITY NOW!). But more on that tomorrow.
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The concrete really came together nicely. My husband and I aren't savvy enough to have done ours when we did some work in our house. We ended up contracting the work out to a contractor from eContractorBids.com. Glad to see some people have the know how to do it themselves! Great Post, can't wait to see the cabinets.
Thanks so much!!!
Chris was a little apprehensive, and it really wasn't until one of the guys from BAU (our garage conctractors) told him he'd be able to do it himself that he was convinced enough to try it. I'm glad he did though, it looks great and it saved a bundle!
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