Thursday, June 07, 2007

Will it ever stop? I don't know...

Delay after delay. I'm jinxed on the home improvement front lately. Last night I had to refurb the valve on the toilet water source before I could finish scraping the floor. The washer was no good so it was leaking when the valve was shut. I had the parts here at the house to do it, but it was still a pain since I had to shut off the water to the house and take that apart and swap parts. It broke my workflow! Then I got sidetracked with cleaning the cat box and doing dishes and some other junk. My 'flow never revived.
I had another delay tonight on the bathroom when the high quality floor scraper I bought today at Harbor Freight broke after 5 minutes of use. I bought it to replace the OTHER cheap scraper I had already broken this week. $4.99 gets you nuthin'. So I had to go to Home Depot and drop $30 on the real deal. Once I had that the floor scraping was quick work and I was ready to start tiling. After dinner, that is. I made fish and a baked potato. Then it was back to work. I had to assemble the tile saw and set that up in the garage. That took a bit of time but I finally started cutting tiles around 8:45. It's 11:55 now and I've done all the cutting I can for tonight. I only have half a bag of flex bond, so I can't set the whole floor tonight, but after this post I'm going to go do what I can. Then tomorrow I finish setting the tiles and start grouting. I'll buy quick set for the tiles I can't get done tonight and I should be able to grout after 2 hours. Here are some pictures so you can see what it is starting to look like.

Bad lighting makes everything look the same color in these... I hadn't noticed it but I moved the preset on Em's camera to Landscape, which made these turn out like poo. No time to re-shoot. I want to get some of these tiles stuck to the floor before I pass out.




****UPDATE****
The tile setting phase of Operation "Should-Have-Hired-Someone" is now 50% complete. It's 1:00 a.m. and I'm going to bed.
It looks like I will be able to complete the bathroom before I leave for vacation on Saturday. My flight out is at 4:15 so I have half of Saturday to work the final pieces. I may leave the trim work until after the trip, but the girls will have a functional remodeled bathroom when they get home.
EVERYONE READING THIS SHOULD LEAVE ME A COMMENT AND TELL ME WHETHER THEY THINK I SHOULD DO WHITE GROUT OR TINTED. EVERYONE! YOU HAVE UNTIL I LEAVE WORK TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO PROVIDE INPUT.

1 comments:

nancy said...

Glad you asked. the darker the grout...the less dirt it shows, i woud do a dark color. the tile is beige correct?