Well, it has been a tough weekend. We started a set of stairs Friday over concrete (they were outside steps before the room was added on years ago). We had to take off the carpet, pad, rubber anti-slip face and old glued down tile. After all that the height was so far off that I had to shoot down plywood from 1/2 to 3/4 to make each step the same. Right now they are about 1/8 off, so the steps feel very good to walk up or down. Now I had to cut the treads to fit, and each step is 1/2 to 2 3/8 wider than the next. I made a tread for each step, so it looks great, but what a job. Not one of them were flat, so I had to grind and fill the high and lows. They look great, but two days to get five steps done is just a bit more than I like.
Monday we will finish the steps and start a gym floor repair here in town. Our high school has water damage so … good for me, bad for the basketball teams. It has been hard on them to work out and get ready for the season on a messed-up floor, but we had to wait till the plywood dried up and the moisture meter told us to "git r done." I love the meter because we took readings at the other end and that became our goal; we made sure that the subfloor and flooring were the same at both ends of the floor. We are good to go and I am ready to get started; it is only 500 feet of tear-out and repair, so a few days of work and we should be done.
I ran into the guy under-bidding me-he was taking back his rental sanders! Now that just adds salt to the open cut; the guy does not have his own units, and he is telling folks that they are as good as the pro units. Oh well, time will tell the story.
