Our concrete floors!
Hello again! I have enjoyed sharing this crazy project with you, I hope you enjoy it too! Today I wanted to fill yall in on our concrete floors! (Pun intended.) Since we had decided not to drywall our interior container walls, we thought it would be best to pour concrete floors on the top two levels. We knew we needed to put a pretty good vapor barrier down because of the pesticides in the container floors. Also, any other kind of flooring (short of just applying a thick epoxy) would have required a lot of custom cutting to accommodate for the corrugation of the container walls.
A "before shot of the container floors"
We didn't have to reinforce the floors in the containers to accommodate the weight of the concrete, but we did have to in the open area between them. In the sections between the containers, we screwed 2x12 sections between each joist as blocks to prevent the floor joists from twisting. We put in 2 rows that were each 1/3 the length of the joist. We decided that was strong enough. We estimate the concrete is about twice as heavy (as thick) as a tile floor.
We had quite a few materials we were storing inside the house. In order to pour the concrete we had to get those things off the floor. So our contractor just rigged up some shelves and screwed them to some of the existing framing and hung some of the shelves from the floor joists up above, to minimize poking holes in the metal walls! It looked funny, but it worked great!
A 2 person jetted bathtub:
And several windows:
We put down tar paper as a moisture barrier,
and then stapled down some welded wire fencing to reinforce the concrete.
We poured the top floor on one day and the ground level a couple of days later.
We rented a pump truck for the top floor.
The pump truck and hose they used for the top floor was neat to watch.
A goopy mess!
When we poured the bottom floor, I had our family put their handprints into the concrete in the foyer right next to our front door.
I didn't get any pictures of the bottom floor because we didn't rent a pump truck and so we had to bring it all in with wheel barrows. We didn't have any other help except for our contractor and his wife, so it was a big job and I actually got to help.
We acid stained them.
And sealed them.
A few months later we waxed them. And we just keep them waxed as often as we can. Not as often as I'd like, we have too many kids for that, but they look very nice when they are freshly waxed!
Let me know if you have any questions!! I'd love to hear from you!
Hello again! I have enjoyed sharing this crazy project with you, I hope you enjoy it too! Today I wanted to fill yall in on our concrete floors! (Pun intended.) Since we had decided not to drywall our interior container walls, we thought it would be best to pour concrete floors on the top two levels. We knew we needed to put a pretty good vapor barrier down because of the pesticides in the container floors. Also, any other kind of flooring (short of just applying a thick epoxy) would have required a lot of custom cutting to accommodate for the corrugation of the container walls.
A "before shot of the container floors"
We didn't have to reinforce the floors in the containers to accommodate the weight of the concrete, but we did have to in the open area between them. In the sections between the containers, we screwed 2x12 sections between each joist as blocks to prevent the floor joists from twisting. We put in 2 rows that were each 1/3 the length of the joist. We decided that was strong enough. We estimate the concrete is about twice as heavy (as thick) as a tile floor.
We had quite a few materials we were storing inside the house. In order to pour the concrete we had to get those things off the floor. So our contractor just rigged up some shelves and screwed them to some of the existing framing and hung some of the shelves from the floor joists up above, to minimize poking holes in the metal walls! It looked funny, but it worked great!
A 2 person jetted bathtub:
And several windows:
We put down tar paper as a moisture barrier,
and then stapled down some welded wire fencing to reinforce the concrete.
We poured the top floor on one day and the ground level a couple of days later.
We rented a pump truck for the top floor.
The pump truck and hose they used for the top floor was neat to watch.
A goopy mess!
When we poured the bottom floor, I had our family put their handprints into the concrete in the foyer right next to our front door.
We acid stained them.
And sealed them.
A few months later we waxed them. And we just keep them waxed as often as we can. Not as often as I'd like, we have too many kids for that, but they look very nice when they are freshly waxed!
Let me know if you have any questions!! I'd love to hear from you!
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