Showing posts with label concrete floor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concrete floor. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Scrape, and Scrape, and Scrape Some More!

Yesterday I invested $30 in a scraper.  I need the scraper to scrape all of the adhesive and backing that was under the tile we removed. Here's what I learned: It is going to be a labor intensive project.  That boiling water helps soften the vinyl and adhesive so you can scrape, and scrape, and scrape some more.

I'm choosing to do all of this scraping because my son is sensitive to odors and chemical smells.  I'm going to have to figure out just how to tape of the kitchen so we can breath and blow the fumes out the window during the project.  So I am trying to keep anything that has a chemical odor at a minimum.  It will be interesting just how slow this scraping moves along.  I am seriously wondering what we were thinking when we came up with this hair-brained idea to take on the  staining and finishing  of the concrete.  Like I don't have enough on my plate.  There are not even enough hours in the day to get everything accomplished already.


This small section took an hour. On the bright side I used enough muscle to feel like I was getting a mild workout.  I still have a lot of floor to scrape.  I'll just count it in my calorie burn for the day. I'll try to work on it every extra moment I have.  I just hope it doesn't take forever because it certainly feels like it is going to!