After some encouragement and helpful tips from our builder, John and I started tiling our third-floor bathroom tonight. After going to so much trouble to pick our tiles, we were nervous about ruining them, but Patrick bolstered our spirits. Phase 1 of our tiling adventure has taught us a few things:
1) Tiling is 20 per cent tile setting, 80 per cent cleaning. I have mortar in places you don't want to imagine.
2) It is extremely time-consuming to clean dried cement off of tiles. We will not allow mortar to dry on tiles in phase 2 of our tiling odyssey.
3) Our marriage will probably survive finishing our bathroom.
Our first three and a half rows turned out pretty well. The tiles actually look like bricks, which was the goal. The next row is a decorative listel, which has a few different colours in it. This listel border will wrap around the tub and shower. We're aiming to put in the listel and finish the rest of the rear wall tomorrow.
Tile on!
3 comments:
I think you unintentionally just incriminated yourselves. I wonder what Mike is going to say about that bottle of wine on the job site!? Hah!
Looks great. Keep up the great work!
No, no, that's just John's amazing wine bottle shadow puppet. Looks exactly like the real thing, doesn't it?
Fantastico!
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully a short one.
I say if a task is once begun, never leave it till it's done, be the labourer great or small do it well or not at all.
Your'e doing great guys!
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