floor saved

After we had such a disastrous week last week with the floor in the cottage, Mike ordered 2 more gallons of stain and another gallon of neutralizer thee floor became completely stained.

After the stain had completely dried overnight, we neutralized and rinsed the floor, We then neutralized the floor again and scrubbed the floor and rinsed it again twice. It seems the problem is that we could not put enough water down at any one time to get the floor clean, so it had to be done multiple times. this is because the floor is indoors. If it were out doors we could have used a power washer and cleaned the floor with the power of a hard stream and large amounts of water.
The floor looks really great now, but it is darker than we really wanted as we had to keep applying stain, which reacted with the concrete, and got darker in places where the stain had taken before. But overall it looks great.

Today the sealer was applied and in 48 hours or so we will apply the first 2 coats of finish. This should protect the shine that the sealer has left.

One of the main problems was the different and ambiguous instructions that came with the product. This product is meant for people with experience and should have taken about 3 days, not 2 weeks to complete. We are now experienced and should we ever have to do this again we will know what to do, Ha Ha .

We plan to start the insulation in the walls and where the attic is floored on Monday. Hopefully,the dry wall guys can get the dry wall in during the first part of next week so that we can start painting.

This week was not wasted though, as we brought on 320 bales of hay for the winter. We now have over 400 bales and should last until the first hay cut next year. We plan to hopefully start boarding horses next spring, which will help pay the bills.

Ta ta for now.