blue marble and asbestos

[Ken Barnes <barnestrav@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

I set up a water recycling system in my urban garage a couple years ago
for wet cutting.  My garage is built into the ground and is 100%
concrete, so I did not have to worry about keeping the walls dry.  I
took a portion of the back of the garage that was about 10 feet by 8
feet and designated that as the wet room.  I did have to jackhammer out
the concrete floor and re-pour it with a slope towards a sump hole.  I
put a sump pump in that hole (covered by a strong but permeable lid).

The sump pump moved the water into a 55 gallon plastic drum, where it
was in turn pumped through piping to supply my saw/grinders.  I also
got one of those commercial refrigerator curtains (lots of thin strips
of plastic) to keep the water spray in my wet area.  I would guess I
spent $1,300 to $1,500 on the area, although I did nearly all of the
work myself.  I hired a concrete guy to help me with the floor slope
and sump hole forming.  If you are in a traditional wood frame garage
you would need to seal those walls off, especially the floor, because
you don't want any water standing at the base of the wood wall.

Ken Barnes