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When I bought my Fanny Mae foreclosure (to LIVE in, not to flip) trenches had been cut and dug in the basement floor to install a variety of plumbing fixtures. The previous owner had visions of creating an apartment down there. I tore out his badly installed drains (most had no fall whatsoever to the soil stack), and I re-dug and replaced one drain to install a toilet for my workshop. I refilled all of the trenches and hired a crew to put down four inches of wire reinforced concrete. The concrete went in three months ago (hot summer), and now it is dusting TERRIBLY. I'm pretty sure the crew failed to remove the bleed water and instead troweled it back into the finished surface.:furious:
(1.) Besides the DUST, which I WOULD like advice on minimizing, I'm more concerned about (2.) the tile floor I want to put down in the toilet room. It's a small room and about half of the floor is on this new concrete. HOW will I ever get thin set to adhere to that dusty surface?:huh:
Thanks for any help.
-paul, the llb
(1.) Besides the DUST, which I WOULD like advice on minimizing, I'm more concerned about (2.) the tile floor I want to put down in the toilet room. It's a small room and about half of the floor is on this new concrete. HOW will I ever get thin set to adhere to that dusty surface?:huh:
Thanks for any help.
-paul, the llb
