Paint Solutions for Concrete Patio?


We’re going to pour a new concrete slab outside the garden level back door in a space leading to the garden because the old one is very uneven and collects water. Eventually when budgets allow we’ll put down bluestone over that, but for now would like to make the grey cement look at bit less depressing and toddler friendly. Can anyone recommend a relatively affordable paint or surfacing solution for the time being (something like Thorocoat)? The contractor has said that stone can go over paint as long as it is well bonded to the new cement, and I’m assuming that’s right.

Categories: Garden
By gardenerbk | 09/03/2010 9:45 AM | Comment

Urgent Prob with Heating Co.


Wondering if anyone has thoughts about what we can do. A heating company recently installed a new heating system in our house, and as part of the job were supposed to put a working duct into a garden level hallway and bath. They finished the rest of the job but left that undone, promising they would come back to do it. They didn’t, even after I tried to schedule it many times. Since we paid for this through a credit plan they offered, they went ahead and paid for the whole job that way though I don’t remember signing off since I was waiting for them to finish the stuff mentioned above. Problem is that we have a baby and it is very cold on that part of the floor – she’s already got her first cold of the season, probably because they didn’t finish their job. It’s very frustrating since I’ve already spent a lot of time trying to get them to come finish the job, but they’ve already paid themselves through the credit plan.

I am planning to fill out a claim at the Better Business Bureau and talk to my cousin who is a lawyer.

Any suggestions for how to get them to finish the job? Has anyone else been left in the lurch like this because of a company’s credit plan?
SHould I just give up and hire another company to add heat on that part of the floor? I would never had paid them before they’d finished the above parts of the job, but it was out of my hands. My husband has been away so I’m trying to sort this out – no doubt there is a gender issue at work, too. It’s been very frustrating, and now the baby has a cold because they didn’t do the whole job they promised,

Thanks in advance.

At wit’s end,
Lee

Categories: Heating
By gardenerbk | 10/20/2009 11:16 AM | Comment