20 Sep
2014
20 Sep
'14
6:49 p.m.
Hi Helen,
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).
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.
No idea how well it would deal with the paint on the floor in the
basement...
Patrik
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Helen Finkelstein <hefinkel(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Patrick -
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?
Helen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
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.
I'm not planning to use a heavy-duty grinder, just a concrete prep tool like
this
<http://www6.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/Concrete_Prep_Tool/12570/>.
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.
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.
It would be good if someone can check this with John as well, since we'll
be making noise right underneath him...
Thanks!
Patrik
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