We are putting a new cement floor in the production sugarhouse this year. If you've visited us in the past few years you'll understand why. The funds were very tight the year they put the original floor in, so there was inadequate site prep done on the sub-base, no curtain drain, no rebar put in, and hot Steamaway water was drained through a plastic pipe in the floor (which quickly melted and seperated the pipe...putting loads of hot water under the concrete)....and of which was a excellent recipe for failure...which did happen. We've ripped up the old floor and dug out 3 ft of of mucky-crud. Should be totally new in about a month.

Also installing new vacuum pumps (two new Busch 1142 pumps on order from Bascom). Air-cooled, so no more dealing with oil or water for us. Hoping to get 26-27" Hg vacuum next year (we got 21-23" Hg with our former Aireblo Flood pump). That'll give us a whole new crop of leaks to fix I'm sure.

Lots of different experiments going on, but that is a totally different thread.