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Mudroom: June 2008

Floor

The first idea for the mudroom floor was ipe, a very durable hardwood.  Em and I spent over $300 for it and in the photo at the left you can see how I laid out all of the pieces.  Each colored rectangle represents an actual piece of ipe while the dotted line is the perimeter of the mudroom.  I had to abandon the ipe, as beautiful as it was, after I installed weather stripping on the bottom of the door only to find that I no longer had room for 3/4" plywood and 1/2" ipe.  Click here for the spreadsheet and you can layout the wood yourself.

 

Before abandoning the ipe we mixed 'self-leveling-grout' and poured it over the existing concrete slab to provide level surface for the plywood between the concrete and ipe.  The photo above was taken a few minutes after pouring the grout.  I should note that the grout didn't level as I thought it would.

 

In the picture above, you have to imagine that I'm smashing down a small clump in the fresh grout due to our incomplete mixing.  To extricate me without stepping on the fresh grout, Em had to grab my pants by the waist and yank while I pushed off the wall.

 

The fabulous slate floor featuring no grout lines!

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