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SIMPLY SEALED

Billionaire entrepreneur and serial disrupter Elon Musk stunned the car world in March this year when he announced that he was closing all Tesla shops which sold the battery-powered Tesla car in the US. When queried about this (temporary as it turned out) decision, the car-maker was quoted as saying, “It’s 2019. People want to buy things online.”

Businessman Tony Gibbs of Hamilton is following this philosophy with his internet-based chemical products store Surface Protection Ltd. He suggested that The Shed use his concrete sealing product on a shed floor.

The floor sealer that Tony recommended is Siloxa-Tek 8510 which is made by the American company Ghostshield. On the label it says that Siloxa-Tek 8510 is a solvent-based silane/siloxane engineered to reduce water and moisture intrusion and resist staining from oil and fluids. This is exactly what the concrete floor of my shed needed.

Shed-floor challenges

A large carton was outside my front door a few days later — 9kg of advanced chemistry arriving by courier.

My hope is that this product will prevent staining of the

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