Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: concrete floors

[MartyR707 (MartyR707]

In a message dated 4/11/00 4:45:27 PM, vbradova [at] bestweb.net writes:

<< The work you describe, Kay, with staining the concrete floors, is 
mindboggling!
Awesome. I guess it is a good idea to find out what the work entails before
one commits... I don't mind doing carpentry but this, I think I would have to
slash my wrists! :-)

Tell us, what are concrete floors like to live with? I have this image of 
clammy
and hard and unpleasant underfoot... (?)>>

kay did make it sound horrible.  We had a pretty different experience.  We 
used integral color in the poured concrete.  Then most of us only had to seal 
the floor.  We shopped around and found a guy who did it for $.30 or $.40 a 
sq ft or something like that.  One or two households went for the fancier 
staing and he charged around $2/sq ft for that.  One family stained their 
floor with coffee grounds on their hands and knees - looks nice.  then the 
sealer can just be slopped on with a mop and bucket.  but I decide it was 
worth paying about $300 to have someone else do it.  He did three coats in 
one day and then I moved in!!

We love our concrete floors - wonderfully cool in the summer, pleasant in the 
winter and soooo easy to clean!  And of course we have area rugs here and 
there - but no more carpets to keep clean (and full of bugs and allergens) - 
hooray!!
Marty Roberts
Two Acre Wood, Sebastopol, CA