Thread: Project POND

Around the corner from me

Harry, have you moved too???? I see your location used to be Pt Pirie, now it's Bungama.
Kryn

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Harry, have you moved too???? I see your location used to be Pt Pirie, now it's Bungama.
Kryn

wheres the hell is Bungama...is that in South Africa

Just south of Pt Pirie

Originally Posted by racingtadpole

I’m not putting epoxy on the floor, too expensive for that size area, and I’m considering buying a MIG, which will mean spatter on the floor, so I want easy to touch up when required.

This is what I ordered, reviews seem alright

https://concretecoatingsealers.com.a...ncrete-sealer/

Racing Tadpole,

What a year you have had. Good to see you are on the up.

Let us know how that concrete sealer goes I have been thinking along those lines for a while.

Eric

That little snippet is only a fraction of what went down last year... that was then, this is now

I will certainly report back on the floor paint. Hopefully it should be delivered sometime this week.

The paint has arrived, currently pondering which end of the garage to start at while I attend to some broken house stuff like figuring out what is stopping my rainwater tank supplying the house (pretty sure it’s operator error..) and replacing a cactus motor on a roller shutter.. currently thinking I might start at the area designated for machining because that moves the bulk of the machinery into position then.

Got a big shed need more stuff..

Picked up a Lotze hacksaw, a McMillan 3 Cyl air compressor and a Dawn 6” offset yesterday while I was in Adelaide. The compressor is going into the wood butchers bay so I don’t have to run a million miles of pipe from one end of the workshop to the other. The Lotze appears to be in decent nick under the crud but I haven’t been able to test it because the power cord is severed. That’s just going to get parked up out of the way for the moment, I have a bandsaw so there’s no immediate need to do anything with it. If anyone can tell me what size and profile the main drive belt off the motor is I’d appreciate the help. No idea where I’m going to put the vice yet, the offset is wrong side to go on the work bench that is already welded into the shed and it’s too big to be put on a mobile stand, and I already have two other slightly smaller fabricated offsets.. If anyone in SA has a Silex 6 1/2” wood workers vice in reasonable condition you want to trade for the 6” offset PM me.

Ive also had a chance to look at electrical and decide the incoming single phase feed is big enough not to warrant destroying the landscaped (I use this term very loosely) bit of the back yard to put a 3 phase feed in.

Like a kid in a loly shop!

Simon

Sent from a galaxy far far away

Pretty much..

Looks like you've scored some good gear RTP!

I moved out of town about 5yrs ago just never changed my location as its barely a 10min drive to work(pretty much a rural suburb of Pirie), Im 7km from Pt Pirie PO... you would see my gum trees from highway 1 not long before turning off for Pirie

So.. A quick update!!

With Easter, some OT at work and a few other things now behind us, I’m currently questioning my sanity and what the actual … possessed me to think painting the floor of a 145sqm shed was a great idea (I measured the shed the other day, it’s actually bigger than I had been led to believe, it’s 8.2m deep)
After a day of jamming everything into two bays of the shed and achieving Tetris grandmaster level I started the job of cleaning the floor.
And… about six hours into it began questioning my sanity.
The previous owner that built the shed was a drag racer who’s favourite pastime seems to have been leaving small patches of rubber all over the inside of the shed. I’m guessing the drag car had a high stall converter and a diff lock and needed about 400000rpm to allow it to move and when it did it wanted to mark its territory with rubber.
The previous owner that sold it to me was involved in some form of grass roots dirt racing from what I can work out.. Dirt circuit most likely or possibly Speedway. Either way the adage right way, wrong way, speedway applies…
His favourite pastime appears to have been draining the oil out of cars without a catch pan and leaving used oil filters O ring down on the concrete. Reminded me of a larger scale variant of the coffee cup rings on a counter..
Fortunately the floor is relatively smooth so the razor blade scraper got the worst of the rubber off OK and a brass brush in the drill took care of the rest. I started spot cleaning the oil stains and a couple of hours into day two of that could be found in the foetal position in the corner of the shed sucking my thumb.. It took nearly all of the 5litres of concrete cleaner I bought just to spot clean the larger patches to an acceptable level. The remaining degreaser I cut down a bit and used to get the smaller stuff off.
After pressure cleaning it to within an inch of its life, finally after 3 days of scrubbing it was ready to put paint on..
My initial plan had been to clean and paint 2 3/4 bays, but I only had enough of the magical degreaser to do two. So the end two bays that were clean have now had the first coat of paint applied.

Even though it’s only the first coat I’m pretty happy with it.

Oh, the old timbers that formed what I think used to be a welding curtain support are now gone and the lights are working again now the RCD for them has been replaced.

Hi Adam,

Nice paint job ! I'm sure that It will be worth the effort !

Its a few years back now, but I had a similar area epoxy painted. It took the guys who did it about 8 or 9 days to do, but they did use a large machine that scrubbed the concrete surface and washed it clean. Most of the time taken was allowing the concrete to dry out after washing. Once dry It took very little time to spray the epoxy, less than a day. But when it was dry it was a brilliant surface, very easy to clean spills and debris up.

Originally Posted by racingtadpole

I’m currently questioning my sanity and what the actual … possessed me to think painting the floor of a 145sqm shed was a great idea

There's a reason mine (135sqm) remains unpainted 6 months after moving in, I'd pretty much decided at one point I couldn't be bothered although I originally intended to. Problem is, having had a painted floor in my previous place and knowing how much easier it is to clean up oil etc, I'm going to have to give in at some point pretty soon because it's driving me nuts. I'm NOT looking forward to the process, only the result...

Looks great!!
I’m assuming the process had more than a couple of days drying time after the pressure washing, or that the paint is tolerant of a bit of moisture?

Steve

Like most finish jobs, it’s not the actual job that takes the time, it’s the unholy amount of prep work required that makes it a pain. If storage hadn’t been so expensive I’d have left the machinery in there a bit longer and done the floor before shoving everything in the shed.

I assume it’s a bit tolerant to water, instructions said it only needed 24hrs. There was hardly any water when I put a plastic bag down for a bit before starting. The residual oil is probably of more concern to me than the water though, I won’t be surprised if I get some lifting over time given the Exxon Valdez amount of oil in some spots.