Concrete Blog

1/4/12

That may be my best horrible entry title pun yet. In case you were wondering what unpolished concrete looks like, that'd be something like this. The vast majority of tile and smooth set (i.e. grout) is removed and most of the resulting mess is in cans (or stacked in front of my house). Should be total comedy if anyone tries to steal the intact pieces, because not only are they welcome to it, they're ungodly heavy. Concrete Ken tells me my slab looks pretty good, which is good to know (incidentally, people are always telling me how good my slab looks). There's some cracks, but nothing they can't deal with. The only WTF thing is that somewhat inexplicably, they unearthed a 120v power line channeled into the slab (you can see it in on the top right) terminating in what appears to be a vertically piece of PVC pipe in the the middle of the floor (an illuminated umbrella? Stripper pole with built-in chaser lights? Anyone else have any guesses?). I have no idea what they were up to, but we gotta remove the wire (not too difficult) and they're gonna fill it in. They said they should be able to make it relatively invisible.