Finished stuccoing the wall reinforcing concrete while Chree continued the concrete form disassembly process. Then we shoveled and swept the wall footers, preparatory to tar and feathering. You haven’t really had fun until you’ve spent an afternoon in the hot sun putting really thick tar-based foundation coating on concrete walls with a stiff bristle brush. As you can see in the picture (that Chree insisted be put in the blog), stirring the tar bucket contents was way too exciting. Amazingly, we got ¾ of the walls coated with one 5-gallon bucket of tar, in spite of applying most of it to ourselves. How, one wonders, do you get tar on the skin of your back while wearing a shirt… or tar on the skin of your arms while wearing a long-sleeved shirt and gloves? Just raw talent, I guess. Jeremy Hughes from The Door Doctor of Middlebury came by late morning to discuss garage door options and pricing. Having heard both his and Jeff Many’s sales pitches, the only thing clear is that no two companies offer products that can be compared to each other very easily.
