Yesterday, while I was wetting the curing grout, I noticed that there were not one, not two, but three baseboard tiles that had hairline cracks in them. I don’t know how I missed that when I was installing them. But, those tiles had to come out. That ended up being …
Today was grouting day. To add insult to injury, I started to grout and found a loose tile. And then another. And then another. All in all there were six loose tiles. Luckily we had some liquid nails for tile on hand and I was able to reset the tiles. …
Today was ceramic tile day. It came out awesome. We did gray and white in a checkerboard pattern. The tiles were 6″x6″ in size. I’m really happy with the job. There was one snag, of course. We bought a box of the ceramic baseboard trim. I started taking the pieces …
Brian managed t’ finish up th’ plumbin’ today. ‘t seems t’ be workin’, but we`re goin’ t’ keep our one good eye on ‘t fer a wee days t’ make sure thar be nay leaks before we close up th’ plumbin’ access area. I continued t’ work on th’ walls. …
One phrase describes today and that is “plumbing disaster”. Of course the way plumbing projects usually go around here, I’m probably being redundant with my phrasing. Actually things went pretty well up to a point–all of Brian’s soldered joints worked, so that was definitely a plus. When he turned on …