Grinding floors in CCL Saturday? - sudo-discuss

Marc Juul

19 Sep 19 Sep

3:29 p.m.

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'll probably be able to come for a couple of hours. When are you planning to start? Heads up though: Some of the tools listed for rent on the home depot website aren't available in any home depots in the east bay, so call and check first.

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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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCult Lab's Board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to CultLabsBoard+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Helen Finkelstein

20 Sep 20 Sep

3:52 p.m.

New subject: [omnilogistics] Grinding floors in CCL Saturday?

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:

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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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Patrik D'haeseleer

6:49 p.m.

New subject: [omni-building] Re: [omnilogistics] Grinding floors in CCL Saturday?

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:

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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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