Wednesday, November 6

Garage floor is poured

On Tuesday Nov. 5th during the afternoon and evening, after Halsey and Alex placed iron rebar across the foam insulation on the floor, the process of attaching the tubes began. We all took turns attaching the tubing to the rebar using zip ties.
The idea is to heat the garage floor with radiant heat - imagine a warm garage!

The above photos show the garage floor looked like with just the rebar and tubing...

We attached over 200 zip ties onto the tubing and the rebar...looking forward to a nice warm floor!!

Yes, I am the mom of boys, and I enjoy posting more gratuitous cement truck photos!

During the concrete pour...

The floor was poured and the concrete was smoothed from back to front...

Here they are pouring the concrete into the footing Halsey made on Sunday.
I am standing on what will be the new screened-in porch looking down.

We thought it would be fun to color the floor which is a process that is done while the floor is drying so the color seeps into the concrete.  I went up to Home Depot and bought some Quikcrete floor colorant- and made our own custom color...

Which I have to admit looks a little scary going on...but then a trowel and a spreader is used to mix the color all around... and here is the final result the next morning!

We have a gorgeous garage floor - 

No, it is not wet- it is the sealant that gives it the glossy sheen!

We will have to wait about 4 weeks to drive a car on it, however we walked across and 

it is wonderful.