I'd never tiled anything other than a pretty simple kitchen floor job a million years ago, but thankfully my wife is super experienced with this kind of work and provided not only guidance but a ton of hands-on assistance, not to mention the rallying cry of, "Let's go do your tile!" at just the right time.
Quick update on the brewing space buildout progress -- the sink is in! My wife and I cut the hole in the countertop to drop in the sink, and then we could finally call the plumbers to come out and hook up everything including the Waterdrop RO filter and the under-sink hose bib for the wort chiller.
I finally got the time to make a big push on assembling and hanging the Ikea cabinets. Overall this went pretty smoothly, again thanks to the experience and know-how of my wife, and probably also because we had just assembled a ton of Ikea cabinets as part of our house remodel.
More random brewery build-out photos!
Acid staining the concrete floor in the brewing space proved to be a very time-consuming process, but it's finally done and I love the results.
Building out the brewing space is turning into a series of things I've never done before which is both fun because I like learning new things, but also means it's a time-consuming process and there's a bit of a risk of catastrophic failure.
Cleaning the floor thoroughly and masking the walls to prepare for the acid staining of the floor.
For reasons I won't go into the floor drain in the brewing space was initially covered by the slab, so it had to be chiseled out and filled in with concrete after the fact.
A fantastic birthday gift from my wife. These will look great once the kegerator goes in!
As part of the house remodel project we wound up doing more work ourselves than we may have wanted, partially to save a few (OK, many) bucks when we could, but mostly to keep things moving since finding people is difficult when all the tradespeople are so incredibly busy.
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