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
Even if you don't make your goal here, that floor will look really amazing when it is finished. I look forward to your post explaining how you made it all.
Thank you for your support @pfunk! This has been a labor of love, and it really is something. Thankfully we're very ingenuitive, which is how we've been able to do this whole process for free. We hope to receive enough support from this community to make it worthwhile to share here, because there is even more to this incredible floor and project!
2 things I think you might consider avoiding: Using whale account names to get their attention, you probably won't. And vaguely holding future posts "hostage" depending on present payout.
Thank you for that input; it is greatly appreciated to help us bring our best to Steemit! Our motivation in waiting to do a complete "How To" post is twofold: #1 we want to completely finish the floor, and we have to have sealant for that, and #2 we have many areas of expertise and are excited to bring ALL of it to this community, but it only seems worthwhile to share that which is well-received. We will happily use our precious time developing useful content, because we have tons of info that is mutually beneficial. Crafting quality posts is an investment chosen over other projects we could focus on. While we can do anything, we can't do everything!
We're really grateful for the outpouring of support and encouragement we've seen in the comments for this post!
I will help with my vote. I hope that you are blessed.
Thank you so much! Blessings to you!
You are welcome, @gardenofeden. Also, interesting name.
Good luck.. Up Voted and followed.
Thank you for your support!
This is amazing! Well done for being so creative and innovative with your new floor. You got my up vote.
Thank you for your support! We've been without a floor for over half a year, so the transformation is extreme. It's a lot of fun to see people's jaws drop when they come to visit!
Yup! I've upvoted both of your floor posts and shared on FB and Twitter. Hopefully you get some more attention. Best wishes! Come on #Steemit community!
Thank you thank you thank you! We can do this!!!
How easy it is in community to bring our gifts together to make things happen. I hope the Steemit community will tune into the great benefit that would be received by the Garden of Eden to have a sustainable floor for workshops, dancing and showing sustainable possibilities again. And Steemit has the ability, with just a simple click of a button to make it happen. Wow! What a revolutionary possibility!!
It's incredible! For a FREE upvote, we can turn that support into physical goods with the most sustainable and epically beautiful floor that Steemit has ever seen!
Floor looks awesome
Thank you!
You have my upvote. Your floor looks beautiful.
Thank you! There's even more to it, and we're excited to share the whole process. First, we need the sealant!
C'mon Steemit-ers! Just click!
Upvotes are totally free! No one actually has to spend money for us to get the sealant!
The floor looks awesome and worth all the sweat.
Thank you! We have learned so much from this process, and it's been extremely satisfying. We're grateful for the support of Steemit to help us finish it up!
That is one nice flooring job. Compliments!
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)