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before you coat the floor with anything I would test for moisture in the floor first. Take a ziplock bag and cut it in half. Then with duck tape tape it to the floor with all the edges down. Wait a day or so and see if there is any water buildup under the ziplock. If there is then you have...

oh yea here is another pick, put the 4 post lift in to store both. Kinda weird to have a lift in a house but it's my new toy box for christmas :))

Here are some pictures of the f100. The roadster is on another computer I restored that car a bunch of years ago. Story on the f100 is I'm the third owner, it was a water district truck here in Oakland. Stripped it to metal, found no rust. Mixed the color like 10 times to get the shade I liked...

Joe, Your right 3mm...sorry I work in cm at work and just go there all the time. Legacy Industrial...didn't know that, live in SF so we don't even think of those things. Thanks for the knowledge! Wangstang, So nothing yet...I think you are good! Good luck finding someone to do the floors.

wangstang, put some oil in the corner to see what happens. so far no seeping into the concrete. will leave it there a few days.

Wangstang...have not had it in long enough to test that. I'm a pretty neat guy, i clean up after myself and my rides don't leak oil like that. If they did I fix them. Polished concrete is not for everyone, there are other ways to get what you want. You just need to find what works best for you...

brassmoney If your a welder like me I think this is the best option from what I have found. Don't need to worry about welding poop, or slag. Plus I dont have to lift the tiles to clean, just use a swifter.

Location is in Okland Ca. So in general it's a pricy area. The SF is about 600 or so, because I took everything of the floor and its was easy t get to everything the pice was pretty fair. It was 500 bucks cheaper then the epoxy guy wanted, and about average for racedeck tiles per SF.

Here are two photos when its almost done...will add more tonight but I gotta get to work now. Enjoy!

Now for the fun part of the project... With the diamond pads replaced with Resin pads to add friction and heat, it's time to burnish the stain into the floor. Using the same process as grinding the resin pads start to add a nice shine and luster to the floor. Notice that even thought the floor...

Ok and now its stain time. This is just a black stain that will be more like a dark grey in the end. If you want to do more yellows and browns you have more options to do different stains to get a tuscan look. One of the interesting things about the process is every floor is different, and...

Time to wash down the surface to get the dust down...this process makes a ton of dust. At the end of the day I had a 75 to 100 pound bag of dust.

After we had most of the floor ground down to about 1000 we opened up the crack in the floor more to make sure we got all the loose concrete out. Then we filled it with an epoxy glue to fill and level it out.

Cutting and Grinding the concrete.

Cutting the concrete with a huge polisher and diamond pads... Notice the change in the concrete, this also leveled it out a bunch, so the floors pitch was corrected a bit. Also now is when there are two guys trading off doing the edges.