Day 70 April 25

Sanded and spackled wall again. I think it’ll only need one more pass after this one. I left for training in the evening while David laid some more of the self-leveling compound on a few spots that were still causing some problems. I’m thinking we’re doing something wrong or this stuff doesn’t necessary do what it says it does. When it says “self-leveling”, I think it really means it just dries smooth so you don’t have bumps. But if you poured it over a high spot that high spot will still be there when it dries. It doesn’t flow over the spot and fill it the low spots on either side like we assumed it would. At this point we just go around the floor with the level and mark areas that need to rise to meet the high spots. If you don’t have a level you could also use a long board or stick and mark the spots where the floor isn’t flush with the bottom of the board. Our floor never really seems to “level” because it appears to have a gradual slope toward the deck, so using the level is kind of pointless other than it a long flat object. It hasn’t mattered too much that this process is taking a little longer than we expected because we don’t plan on laying the floor until we have a full day/weekend to get it all done at one time.