Per the suggestion of influential Steemit users, we are adding this amendment to our previous post. We added the magic words to our title to generate that Steem, Steem, Steem we request, and we hand painted an upgrade on our floor!
Steemit, please help us finish our floor!
We had a super huge mega flood in Texas last year, and our whole living room floor got ruined.
We put all of our funds, time, energy, and focus into feeding, clothing, housing, and educating tens of thousands of people a year. Because of our standards, we couldn’t justify paying someone to fix them. We don’t spend money on getting stuff done, even for our own comfort.
So we lived with this for 8 months. We had to replace the foundation beams, runner boards, base flooring and lay aesthetically appealing wood paneling.
That’s how long it took us to
#1 figure out the solution that would prevent future flooding from happening
#2 collect salvaged material
#3 Educate ourselves in the skills that we needed in order to fix the floor
That was part of the difficulty & the fun!
The difficult part is that we’re constantly doing new things that we’ve never done before, so much of our time is used on the learning curve. There’s a big difference between someone like us, doing it for the first time and a professional who’s done it repeatedly.
At the same time, it’s fun because we’re constantly pushed, challenged, learning, thinking outside box, and evolving!
Basically, it took us 8 months to finally get to the stage where we’re at now:
We’ve got this beautiful floor made from 99% salvaged material, with our own tools, and all with our own blood, sweat and tears. A carpenter friend came to visit and exclaimed that he would charge $20-30,000 to complete a floor like this!
We’re at the point where it’s almost complete; it looks pretty much done,
but in order for it to be a long-term functional floor, it needs sealant.
That’s something we can’t make or salvage; we have to buy it.
We figure it will be maybe $300 to get enough sealant for the floor, which is relatively expensive for us.
We’ve dedicated our proceeds to feeding/clothing/housing/building sustainable infrastructure to help more people, and we are not going to divert funds from that.
So we’re putting this post out there to show how dedicated we are, what standards we live by, and to ask the Steemit community to give us an upvote.
All we need is 300 dollars--which is only 1-2 upvotes from someone like @dantheman, @ned, @berniesanders, @riverhead, @smooth, @blocktrades, and @tombstone.
Then we’ll be able to finish this floor!!!!
After 8 long months we will FINALLY have our living room back!
In thanks, we’ll do a comprehensive, step-by-step "How to Lay a $20-30K Floor for $300" post, and it will be EPIC!!
www.intothegardenofeden.com
