My oh my, I am having a lazy day. It wasn’t until this mid afternoon that I wandered down into the basement and peered into the two closets that are sporting a new clean surface. Of course! I bent down and gingerly put my index finger on the surface to check on whether the epoxy had dried . . . or not. The index finger came back as clean as before. I am not venturing into these closets today or for perhaps the rest of the week. The arms, shoulders and hands are resting. There were many pits in the concrete of the cistern floor that needed to have the paint mixture worked into for full coverage. This was a floor that was roughed in most likely with hand mixed concrete. It was meant to hold water and never intended that some day it would be an important part of the home as a pantry.
There was a time when an apartment house was being torn down in my brother’s area. Dennis and I went and purchased four of the top units of the kitchen cabinets. Two were set on top of each other for the cistern closet and the remaining two were set on top of each other in the garage. Great storage. Anyway . . . it would not surprise me if there would remain some spots on the cistern floor that would feel as it all was set up and dry, but due to the amount that I spread on, needs to be totally left alone. Better to be safe than sorry. Both Dennis and I were surprised the odor was not stronger than it was. Today I confessed to Dennis that this was one job I dreaded to start for fear I would mess it up. Cross this project off of our list.