You are reading a single comment by @hvsds and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@hvsds
nearly there!
the old tiles were just painted over with a couple of layers of primer and a couple of gloss (i think it was paint designed for concrete/wooden floors, but that's what was recommended to us in the shop):
sanding down the kitchen floor with a belt sander turned out to be a promethean task, so we got a chap in to sort that out, looking fresh and smelling nice now. just need to sort a few shelves out on the walls - was thinking about old scaffold boards, but it turns out they don't really use wooden scaffold boards in poland, so we shall have to see...
before:
after:
bathroom floor went down quite nicely too. against all the doctor's (@sacredhart) orders i bodged it a little, 'levelling' the floor by filling in the grout lines in the existing tiles , and then no-more-nails-equivalent-ing it down. i reckon it looks alright for now - time will tell if my corner-cutting will cause woes later on!
i can't take credit for the rest of the bathroom, as much as i would have liked to try my hand at tiling the walls, there just wasn't time.