Well, it's taken a bit longer than expected, but the carpet in the main display area is now completely finished and it looks great!
We deliberately chose to do similar 'panorama' type shots, before and after. Given the large area, the carpet layers chose to go with a commercial underlay glued to the concrete, and the carpet glued to the underlay, to prevent any movement or wrinkles. It feels nice and soft, and reduces the 'echo' significantly, which I'm pleased about.
Let the layout-building begin!
After a monumental effort, and my son-in-law coming to the rescue, all the painting is finished in the main area! Which is just as well as the carpet layers are arriving tomorrow to start, naturally enough, laying the carpet! 'We' also had to clean the slab as thoroughly as possible as apparently the underlay needs to be bonded to a nice clean slab. And it's done, finished, complete!!
The only other thing remaining to be done in this area is to stain and install the architrave around the two windows and then start building the layouts!!
Obviously I'm very excited that finally this stage has been reached. I'll post some more photos once the carpet is down.
