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Don't usually like feet in pictures, but I wanted to give a sense of scale.

Floor is done. I shall no longer have concerns about my floor durability. Polished concrete, baby! Yeah!

The concrete slab is being ground in preparation for a hardening/sealing and polishing. Grinding equipment. The aggregate will be more visible - should look plenty cool.

Shop is cleaned out and empty. Floor finishers have brought in the grinding equipment, and are grinding the surface down to be properly sealed and polished. This is going to be good. I'll be closing my eyes when I write the cheque for this, but it's the floor finish to be all floor finishes.

Oh my! What have we here??

Getting pink done...

I see an absence of small-car-sized rocks. I am envious.

Web site is up again, lemme know if any pictures show up as not there.

For some twisted and drunk reason, my website host has decided that my domain name (www.gwellwood.com) has expired, despite being paid and up-to-date into next year. All of my pictures have been hosted there. I have been set to "auto-renew" through my host for the past 7 years, and yet...

R40 insulation, 6mil poly, and most of the 5/8" drywall up in the machine shop. 11' ceiling. The Princess Auto drywall-sheet-lifter-up-inator isn't sketchy AT ALL. I wasn't even a BIT afraid.

No news on the concrete. I asked my electrician if I should continue waiting for the Safety Authority. He said that they get the day of the call plus one more day. So.... I could have been insulating 3 weeks ago. Nice to know. I pulled out my 10 gauge air compressor wiring since that's not...

Met with my concrete-finishing-friend, and his associate who does custom flooring. Option 1: HP Spartacote, which is awesome, but cannot handle welding slag and sparks - a significant part of my hobby. Option 2: sealed and polished concrete. I'm leaning to option 2.

Nothing new to report. Getting the Super 7 ready for the road again. I did, however, that the allegedly oil-resistant "NOX-Crete Cure And Seal 1315" (put down by the slab company) dissolves with reckless abandon with gasoline. As in OMGWTFBBQ1! dissolves. I have a friend who does concrete...

Is that just digging, or digging and backfilling? The excavation of my rock quarry was $5500, inclusive.

Congrats on the start! I shall follow along!

Passed the Occupancy Inspection with flying colours. Yay! Got three more light fixtures to hook up. Waiting now for my electrician to give the go-ahead to close in the walls.

And I flicked the switch, and there was light. And the light allowed me to work during the darkness. And I kept the darkness "outside." And I kept the light "inside." And it was good. The first row of T8's are up. I can't help but go MWUHAHAHAAHHAHAHA inside. It feels THAT good. I need a...

All the fascia covers have been replaced. Got the gutter and down spout across the front done. Couple around back to do today. And.... We now have power.

Electrician is coming to wire the panel and power me up Thursday or Friday. Yay! Marretted a plug onto the furnace circuit to test - Furnace heats, yay! I'll likely test the motorized damper and barn fan tomorrow. Yay! Ordered 18 twin-tube fluorescents. With 32W daylights, I should have...