<div dir="ltr">Hi Helen,<div><br></div><div>Since I haven't heard back, I think I'll be returning the concrete prep tool to Home Depot this evening. It's $130/day for the disc + the machine itself, and it would need to be back in tomorrow morning by 9am anyway. If you want to give it a go in the basement, you can just rent it for another day yourself at whatever time works best for you. I was able to transport the thing myself, in the passenger seat of my small car, from the HD in Oakland (Emeryville doesn't seem to have tool rental). </div><div><br></div><div>I successfully finished doing the floor in our storage/lab room, but I recommend that we look for a better solution to do the main floor in CCL - possibly hiring some professionals that may have tools that do a much better job at containing dust. This prep tool also doesn't deal with crusted-on chewing gum well (and this storage room used to be the green room for the heavy metal bands that came through here in the 80's and 90's...), so I had to scrape most of it off by hand, and then go over it again with the tool - ugh. </div><div><br></div><div>No idea how well it would deal with the paint on the floor in the basement...</div><div><br></div><div>Patrik</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Helen Finkelstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hefinkel@gmail.com" target="_blank">hefinkel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Patrick - <br><br></div>Do you have the tool? Can we borrow it? The downstairs kitchen also needs grinding, but we thought we would have to rent a grinder. Do folks think the concrete prep tool would work on the kitchen floor? <br><br></div>Helen<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrikd@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrikd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>I have an unexpected chunk of free time on Saturday, and I was hoping to use it to start prepping the floors in CCL. Should be done well before the CR event at 6pm.<br><br></div>I'm not planning to use a heavy-duty grinder, just a concrete prep tool <a href="http://www6.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/Concrete_Prep_Tool/12570/" target="_blank">like this</a>. I've never used one of these, but I would still expect it to make a substantial amount of noise - at a minimum like running a high-powered vacuum for a couple of hours. I may try to cut down on dust by running it wet, if that is an option.<br><br></div>I know this is short notice, but I hope we can make it work - the floors are the #1 obstacle holding up progress getting our lab up and running right now, and there's just not that many times I can carve out a big chunk of time. <br><br></div>It would be good if someone can check this with John as well, since we'll be making noise right underneath him...<br><br></div>Thanks!<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Patrik<br></font></span></div>
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