These Cedar beams were salvaged from an old cedar fence that was being torn down and thrown away.
I didn’t have any idea what I would do with them at the time, but I hated to see them thrown in the dumpster.
I cleaned them up by taking just enough off of the sides to remove the old paint and stored them away.
I finally got tired of looking at it on the shelf so I decided to make this! (notice the brown concrete cactus I probably should have moved out of the picture)
This is a repair of a acid stained concrete gone bad. The previous stain job wasn’t done right in the first place so the owner hired us to stain over the existing stain with Vancrete’s water based concrete stain and reseal it.
Part of the floor has been stamped and part of it has had a skim coat so there is a little textural difference.
This color is actually the combination of three colors applied over each other. Natural Grey, Bark Brown (dark brown) and Amber (reddish brown).
This picture was taken looking inside through the front door
The pic at the bottom of the screen is what the entire floor looked like before we stained it and above the threshold is what it looked like after.
Before the advent of Vancrete’s water based concrete stain, about the only hope for fixing a bad acid stain job was paint or blinders. Now you have an almost endless amount of options of colors and textures.
This butcher block is made of Beech lumber with a walnut inlay.
It is around 3 ft wide and 7 ft long
Here is building a butcher block countertop (in chronological order even).
This is a pic of the clamping process, notice the obsessive/compulsive clamping.
This is after ripping the lumber into the desired dimension then gluing both sides of each board fast enough so the glue doesn’t start drying and clamping top and bottom.
This is Tom, owner of White and Sons hardwoods, scratching his head trying to remember how to use this darn thing, (just kidding).
Tom will sand your butcher block top, for a fee, with his 36 inch belt sander. The fee he charges is a lot less than what you will spend on sanding belts and is a far superior finished product.
