My back and body felt beat up several week s ago working on the concrete floor. It hurt to get out of bed and loosen my joints. What with the long days of summer, the sun breaking over the horizon at 4:50AM I am usually awake thinking about the day ahead. Robins are my summer motivation and' one by one they call outside the window. Today, it felt best to lie in bed. But this is summer and winters are long up here. I felt a low persistent ache in my lower back, and my body was still sore from standing on the concrete floor from the previous days chores. I couldnt wait any longer and needed my cup of coffee. It hurt navigating the steps down toward the kitchen to the coffee maker and prepare for my morning walk, the dog looking back at me with patience as I walked slow thinking about the concrete floor and my sore back; while Rosie ran ahead chasing squirrels and splashing in the brook with ease.
I’ve been meaning for the past 15-20 years to finish what I started and decided a wood floor in the woodshop is a must for my aching back. Initial antique truck mock-up, fitting, final assembly occurs here in the woodshop too… the Stovebolt welding, de-rusting, paint scraping, disassemnbly, swearing, draining fluids, sanding filler, priming, painting and wire wheeling 70 years of mud and grease happens outside.
For the past three weekends I have been making trips to Home Depot and picking up DriCore 24x24” panels and installing them on the shop floor. The unnecessary hogging the floor is getting the boot, and what doesn’t belong in there … is moving outta there to places I know not where. Here is a progress picture. I like this material - it interlocks without sleepers, I dont lose much if any any ceiling height, it flexes… and spiffs up the old concrete floor. I notice a an improvement in my body at night...but more importantly I'm not as sore in the morning. Days are now getting short again- time to start splitting the firewood....after the floor is done, of course.
