Front Porch Resurfacing
Summer 2021
It was desired by the powers here that the front porch be reconditioned. So I started by stripping off the ceramic tile. A good friend let me dump it in his dumpster. There's a whole story behind that, but tha's another Web page.
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The tile is stripped off. Then I used a hammer and chisel to chisel off most of the thin set.
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Chipping the thinset off by hand. Took about 6 hours total. |
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I looked at renting a grinder and found that I could purchase a dust shroud and grinder cup for my very old Wen 7 inch grinder. I think I purchased this in 1978. You can see here the vacuum duct job I did. This thing actually worked very well.
I could have used the grinder to take off all of the thinset but I would have gone through a lot of vacuum cleaner filters. I had to clean the one I had three time, with just the grinding I did.
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Here's the porch ground off, and power washed. Ready to patch.
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Here, the patching has been done. In theory, we're ready to put the top coat on. Just waiting on the right weather conditions. |
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