From failure to success.
It’s been months since I finished the penny floor in our new upstairs bathroom but I haven’t shared the result yet–so sorry! We have been working hard on the exterior stuff like stairs, porches, shingles and landscaping.
I thought everyone must have forgotten, but a neighbour (I assume) was walking by last week and asked, “did you finish the penny floor?” Yikes, the world is watching. We are in a bubble.
So here is the final chapter in the story. This is the happy ending.
I don’t think I have to write much here because I totally geeked out on this topic in the first two posts about the penny floor (especially in Part 2 which includes videos ad nauseam and links to other Penny Floor advice I checked out before I tried ours).
Part 1: Penny Floor!
Part 2: Penny Floor Fail
So now, behold Part 3: Penny Floor Success!
In which I mix the two parts of Epoxy together and pour it on the floor, making sure it gets into the corners and does not get any bubbles in it and all the while recording it with a camcorder AND a time-lapse app on my iPhone 4S. Enjoy!
If you haven’t got a few minutes to watch the very entertaining video, here is the story in photos.
You may remember that after all the work of patterning and laying pennies, the stupid polyurethane coat I put on made it look like pants (Australian expression, I’m told, meaning “sucky”).
Fortunately (?), a few days later the coating started flaking off!
We spent a lot of obsessive time peeling the pennies which resulted in this:
I was especially sad that Leanne’s diamond pattern which shows the points of the compass was dimmed:
But after the Epoxy coating we all felt better. I just wish I had used Epoxy the first time!
Finally, here is a gallery of the main stages of the floor:
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