[sudo-discuss] [omni-building] Re: [omnilogistics] Grinding floors in CCL Saturday?

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

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 at 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 at 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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