Final entry on this blog

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Day Three-twenty-nine

When last we met the the basement floor was coming along smartly. Now it's installed and looks good. We've had a bit of trouble getting grout haze off the tiles and removing what we think are natural salts from the grout itself (they get drawn up through the cement floor by the wet grout during application or are in the tap water that gets mixed with the grout). Our goal is a basement so smooth and clean that we can walk on it in bare feet. It's been a construction or transit zone for so long that for many months this seemed impossible, but we're getting close.

We've also primed the walls (plaster and cinder block) because we want to put a real color on them instead of DryLock grey. The two 2x2 pieces of plasterboard in the upper right corner of the picture above have colors that we were testing for the walls.

A couple other touches provide a nice finished look. Where the tile meets the cinder block we had the guys install a tile border. We'll put regular wood molding along the plasterboard walls.

And where the walls meet the ceiling we used to have a gap because the ceiling had previously joined the paneled walls that we took down because of the mold behind them. Now there's a nice crown molding and after everything is painted it will look as though we'd always intended the basement to look like this.

The basement bathroom also got a warm color to brighten it. Along with doubling the lights and making enough room to take advantage of the one window, the room is getting downright homey.