Floor sealing back in August 2023...

Well to say I have been distracted is an understatement! Kitchen and laundry renovations, converting an unused void into a second dunny and then moving all the furniture to allow a new floor to be installed in the house and how time slips by. And then a false start, and it was back to the house to do bathroom renovations...

So, this will be the first of a few rapid-fire posts to get back to speed.

Well with the ceiling up and 'flushed', the hermetically sealing completed and the mains power cables run in, it was time to seal the concrete floor. I used a Dulux product 'Avista' and applied four good coats to the super smooth concrete slab. I did not wash the slab or prep it in any special way, just dust mopped it and then rolled the Avista semi-gloss down.

The tin has an exploding lung picture on the can, and it was rather overpowering with the toxic fumes, so it took several mornings to get the entire 100 square metres sealed.

I am very happy with the finish, concrete stains and all. It was by far, thousands of dollars, cheaper than even the cheapest 'budget' concrete polishing.

Okay, whilst the sealer dries and the shed vents the fumes, I'll work on the next post!

Running the mains and the fibre optic into the Shed.

Due to a slight oversight, as the conduits were installed some years prior to the shed actually being built we had a small problem as the conduits were only 32 mm. And running 16mm2 three phase from the house to the shed presented and issue as that cable is not allows in 32 mm conduit as per the good book.

So, to overcome this it involved splitting the orange circular and running the three phases, neutral and earth across two 32 mm conduits and running in a fibre optic for connectivity as data cabling cannot be mixed with power circuits, but fibre can!

The orange circular 16 mm2 exits the house and is split across the two conduits to the shed with the fibre optic as well.

The inside of the shed where the switchboard will end up eventually. Spoiler alert, as I am so far behind here it is already completed! Hahaha.

Okay, sealing the floor should be next...

Hermetically Sealing the Shed.

Well, living in the Pilbara with the humidity and cyclonic rain, sometimes, I had always intended to completely seal the shed to eliminate drafts, vermin, liquid sunshine and of course those pesky little 'dust' particles that have a habit of getting in everywhere up here.

So, to hermetically seal the shed, it was several rolls of Gorilla tape to 'join' all the ThermalBreak insulation, and then Sikaflex to seal the slab to the ThermalBreak all around the bottom of the shed as per the below image of the northeast corner.

Next up, sealing the concrete floor...