Floor Pour

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On Friday, May 25, everything came together. Terry got the plumber to put down the radiant heat tube, got some local "concrete experts" to come help and got the concrete pumper truck scheduled.

I came up for the day to help out, leaving Seattle at 3:30am to catch the 5:30am boat and get up to the property by about 7am.

The pumper truck, and concrete truck arrived, and we were all ready to go. There was a problem with one of the hoses, which put us back about an hour, but once the concrete started flowing, it went fairly well.

It was a challenge to get it all done in the right order so we did not paint ourselves into a corner, but the concrete got all pumped out and leved up in the right place.

Then we took a short break while things set up, and then proceeded to mag trowel things out, and do a first round of power troweling.

Then we did 2 rounds of finish troweling, and power troweling. By about 7pm we were done and it turned out great. I headed back on the 8:30pm boat and was home by about midnight.

The concrete is only 1 1/2" thick, and we will probably have some cracks, but we are OK with that as it gives the floor some character.

We will probably throw down some area rugs in places and if in the future we decide to do something else, we could always put down a floating floor of wood/bamboo or cork over it.