Shop Cement

One of the very first improvements we made to our new house here was to put a cement floor in the shop. When we moved in the shop had a gravel floor and was divided into three areas:  the main shop, the "office", and the "tack room". These were rooms that the previous owner had plans for and had started to create but never really finished. The office had a plywood floor, and the tack room had cinder blocks everywhere, possibly in preparation to put a plywood floor in. There was very little electrical done, though wires had been run all around the two smaller rooms, with outlet boxes. There was only one plug in the office that had a pull chain light attached. The tack room had empty outlet boxes and wires going here and there. The only lighting in the big shop was two lights that shone straight down. They weren't very bright either.

The day came when the guys started to work on the shop. We decided to do the main shop first and once we tore the office and tack room out we would do that side. But that was for later. 

The plan was to do it in two pours. 

 The first side is done.

Then they came back and did the same thing to the second side. The shop side, or 2/3 of the entire floor was now done.  

Eventually we would rip out the walls to the office and the tack room, creating one large space. I don't have pictures of that but here is a picture of the finished floor and the new lights above.

It's been a huge improvement!