As many of you have heard we are decorating the bathrooms of the pizzeria with cement countertops and today was D-day. We had been postponing the project for quite a while on account that none of us know diddly about cement, or even how to swing a hammer for that matter. Nevertheless, and with a little positive coaxing from C-TRAIN'S Dad, we forged ahead and hopefully made a little bit of history. Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Trying to get our mix on.
Mixing, mixing, and more mixing cause that's how we roll.
These are OUR melamine forms. Stop drooling over their awesomeness.
Adding steel mesh to strengthen the countertops.
Yes, they are kind of like cakes, big cement cakes.
By the time you read this, there will be a fresh coat of delicious new asphalt were this dirt lays. As Joseph and I were discussing the various properties of asphalt we realized we didn't know as much about it as we would like. So with some help from Wikipedia---Asphalt or bitumen can sometimes be confused with tar, which is a similar black thermo-plastic material produced by the destructive distillation of coal. The primary use of asphalt (bitumen) is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder for the aggregate particles. The road surfacing material is usually called 'asphalt concrete' in North America or simply 'asphalt' elsewhere. The apparent interchangeability of the words 'asphalt' and 'bitumen' causes a lot of confusion outside of the road construction industry despite quite clear definitions within industry circles. Huh.
