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Late to the party but the local paint supply cross referenced the RAL color and made this. I sincerely appreciate the leg work.

The muffler on mine does a good job. I'd rather not pull in hot-humid air even though I have an automatic drain valve. It is in a room by itself so the noise isn't bad. It's a Champion which is many times quieter than my 80 gallon Ingersoll which even in a storage closet with the door closed...

Mechanic 217 is right. I know.

I have an IR and a Champion. The Champion is hands down quieter. I keep it in a room off the main garage but the door is left open as I keep larger tools I don't use a lot. No problem being in the room with it running.

TransAir or Prevost

A lot of water under the bridge! I've been busy installing heat this week so no time to post. Great ideas like the B&W tiles and "ceramic tile" garage are appreciated. Keep it coming!

Gary S/ reyna14: Couldn't agree more. After the experience with the floor in the pictures garage I have serious doubts about coating floors with anything but a sealer. That's what we did in the barn/garage shown in the photo with the lift. Thanks.

I don't use anything stronger than Simple Green. These stains are not coming out as Acetone or any type of reducer like lacquer thinner have no effect. Unless someone can guarantee the results I'm sticking with plain old concrete. Thanks for the advice.

Here's my gripe about epoxy floors. I've had mine done once professionally and once by me. Here's what you get after a year or so of use. Expoxy + Urethane top coat did no better. Because of this I have no plans to do the floor in my other garage. It's a 64x36 with all the bells and...

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The new pour happened Friday May 21st. It went down without any issues. On this job the GC hired a fellow who was very experienced. His repetoire included linear accelerators and the like. :shocking: His crew numbered around 9-10 and one of the heads of the concrete company even showed up as...

He worked it too wet with the vibratory screed. It causes the gravel to fall out of suspension and you end up with mostly sand and things that don't take much abuse. In my situation it was a lot of sand. It took NO abuse. I cannot say for sure but the one architect I trust likes to see...

That good information, however, the contractor decided to do the removal without further consideration to spall repair. To do it right would have required that the slab be ground down to the point where there was a hard substrate. A lot of work. ARDEX or similar would have been used which isn't...

I'm not sure what it is going to cost but he's taking care of it. :bowdown: We have a pretty tight community and the folks that did the initial grade are going to do it. I'm going to get them to do some other work while they are there which works out really well for everyone. Since the entire...

Funny. We're having a structural engineering firm formulate the next job and we are using a different concrete finishing contractor. That ought to do it. It might seem to be over-kill but as an architect buddy told me long before I got started; "Make damn sure whoever is doing the concrete...