Well over the last few days I've been getting down and getting dirty on the garage floor......
Grinding and chipping- dusty and hard work, but went ok.
Sweeping up mess- dusty and spluttery, but went reasonable.
filling holes with epoxy filler, not bad.
Painting the epoxy floor covering on, a disARSter darling!
There was this big tub of blue stuff and a little tub of clear gluey stuff and it had to be mixed. On opening the blue tin it was VERY, VERY blue. A friend who works in the trade got the stuff and I thought it would be the soft bluey grey that the corridor floor was done in, but no bright petrol blue, arousing such comments from French neighbours, looking in to see what was happening as
'Ou est les etoiles? And ' Ah! une piscine! '
That was when they saw the narrow strip that was painted near the garage door. Because the first attempt, that was all that got done. It got mixed up wrong. A whole big bucket full and after about twenty minutes was going off. Getting thick and gloopy, smelling funny and getting hot. This was most of the stuff from the tins. Next day, mixed up the rest properly and just about eked out enough to cover the floor. It's a massive garage ( could get four cars in at a push) had to work really quick so it's not neat, and there's little teeny holes where the floor was bumpy. But at least it's covered. Next time I come it will have a second coat..no paint left now , all wasted.
And this was my hands............after three goes with white spirit, fairy liquid, hand wash, scrubbing and scratching and scraping.
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And here is the blue floor. At least it won't be all dusty any more.
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