New Bar Build

So a little back ground. I am a general contractor and I am in a trade show this spring. The Edmonton Home and Garden show. I am trying to mix my love of beer the best I can legally (would love to drink at work but I'm sure I would be missing a few didgets if I did). Anyways I am building part of my booth which is going to be a bar with a tap in it. Want to start getting more into this at work. I thought I would post step by step on here for anyone thinking of doing it. It will be built to be used in my basement when not at a show so I'm building it in a way that can easily be taken apart and reassembled a few times. It's going to be a 2 level bar with a bar fridge and a 2 faucet tap mounted to the countertop. I am going to run 2 1/2" PVC pipe down into the fridge. I'm going to grease it up around the countertop and then spray foam the pipe where it runs through the countertop. I want to grease it so I can remove the PVC during transport. The spray foam shouldn't stick to the pipe this way. The upper level is going to be a live edge walnut slab. Anyways I started yesterday and have the cabinet carcuses done so far they will be maple alone with the rail and stile style doors. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447188621.473539.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447188637.478956.jpg

Subbed to this one, sounds interesting

Progress update for the day. Had a short one today. Only had 3 hours to work on it. Bottoms went in, rails and stiles cut and run through the jointer and iron on edging went on the boxes.View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447202913.380694.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447202926.616696.jpg

Rail and styles have been routed and one door is assembled and glue is drying in the jig only 6 more panels to go. [View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447357598.060251.jpgATTACH]315458[/ATTACH]

A few more progress pics. Put the other door together and mounted the hinges today. Also built the back for the upper bar. I have pocket screwed the cabinet boxes to the back so when I want to move it it's only a matter of taking out 7 screws a box. I'm going to have it break into 3 manageable pieces. 2 boxes and then the back. The doors will also just pop off and the live edge upper bar will be screwed on so that can come off for transport. The concrete countertop will not get glued in place so it can slide on and off as well. It won't move anyways it will way around 200lbs.View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447458587.378893.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447458603.136555.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447458619.814141.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1447458632.400163.jpg

Had a little lack of updates but put everything together. The live edge top is held on with 8 screws and the boxes are held on with 7 screws each. 22 screws and it comes apart into 4 manageable pieces. Going to start the countertop tomorrow. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1448221671.427325.jpg

looking great!

Beautiful top!

Countertop formed and poured. I did a crushed beer bottle in it as well as a couple veins. Your looking at the bottom of it so you don't see those now. Will see them once I flip and polish it. Used an empty beer can for the knock out for the tap. Usually use ABS but forgot to pick some up so I'm improvised. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1448503834.479033.jpg

Great work! I can't wait to see how this turns out.

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Thought I would upload a few pics of the other decorative concrete we have done. Whenever you say concrete countertops most people think of a sidewalk as a countertop when really there is so much more you can do with concrete.

Took a few pics of the burl in the walnut upper bar live edge piece. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1448858307.031964.jpg

That looks great! I can't wait to see it all finished.

Countertop flipped and pre stain and then during the staining process. I used both an acid stain and a water based stain. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077206.369933.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077218.940205.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077229.645158.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077237.614202.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077251.406423.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077263.729337.jpgView attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1449077274.200860.jpg

Izzie1701 said:

Countertop flipped and pre stain and then during the staining process. I used both an acid stain and a water based stain. View attachment 320130View attachment 320131View attachment 320132View attachment 320133View attachment 320134View attachment 320135View attachment 320136

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Can you show which products you used and why. I think I might like to play with that in the future. Looks great.

For the concrete we use a custom mix. We use a GFRC add mix and mix our own concrete using 50/50 sand to cement. I dose my glass fiber at 3% of the dry material weight. The tricky thing is water. I use around 1 gallon of water for 60lbs of dry mix but this is the part you need to practice to make perfect. If the sand is holding moisture you need less water if it's dry as a bone you will need a little more. If you add to much the concrete sucks and looks terrible. Trinic has a bunch of really good YouTube videos on GFRC concrete my mix design is the same as on there website. I don't bother spraying my face coat in as in the videos as it is self consolidating and I have never had exposed fibers. For the acid stain I use brickform patena stain. This was ebony colored. The integrated color is just from a local supplier here. They make there own but any powder integrated color works. You will again need to try it a few times to get your dosing correctly for your liking. You don't need much and never dose over 5% of your cement weight or it becomes weak. The color is stone effect black it's again a locally manufactured color but almost all water based stains work the same. It's a liquid concentrate you mix with water at 3-1 ration water to color. You have to spray it on heavy and let it dry to get a deep color.

I have used many different kinds of the add mix but always return to trinic. Some are extremely hard to work with. Trinic seems to be the easiest with the best results.

You've got good skills ! Looks very nice