We went up on Saturday morning, the day after we poured the floor, to do a better job with the tarp. We fixed that up and called it good. We did notice there were still a few little puddles on the floor.
On Sunday, Brent went up and burnished the floor with our finish trowel. He used boards to be able to move about on the floor. Burnishing is supposed to bring up finer particles to the surface to give the floor a finer finish. He did have to dry up a couple of the puddles with a towel first.
On Monday, we went up and checked on the floor and tarp. All seemed well.
We checked on the floor Tuesday (yesterday) and found a lot of cracks, some of them rather large. We spent an hour using the garden sprayer and the trowel to work these cracks out. We left with the floor looking great again.
When we checked on the floor this afternoon, holy smokes - even more cracks than before, though they weren't as wide. Ugh. Brent spent some more time working the floor. It was much harder to do and some of the cracks really weren't pushed closed like yesterday, they were sort of just filled in from above. Some were already becoming noticeable again before we left. We will just have to fill any cracks later, when the floor is dry and before we seal it.
I read about what might have gone wrong. We think it was that there was just too much moisture. A wetter mix is easier to work and spread and smooth, but it tends to have more cracking issues. Because of that deluge of rain the night before we poured and the rain that occurred during the pour, we just ended up with too much moisture. I guess we should have waited 2-3 days and then poured our last layer. Oh well, we figure it will work out just fine in the end with patching the cracks.
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