Angela Law

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. However, now I’m wondering how many more are going to pop up and just why this happened? I mean, this is the 5th room we’ve tiled in our house and we’ve never had this problem before. All I can figure is that I spread the mortar too far and it started to dry before I laid the tile. I can only hope this is the case because then all of the tiles won’t be affected. All of the tiles that are going to be under the vanity were in perfect shape, of course.

The good news is that we’re running out of potential disasters for the project. The other good news is that the satisfaction I get from a finished tile floor, I may get to experience again and again if any other tiles decide to pop up.

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 out of the box and they came out in pieces. Uh oh. We ended up just three short. All told, there were six broken pieces that will be going back to Lowe’s sometime soon–that stuff’s too expensive to chalk up to a loss. There were three other broken pieces that we were able to get parts from. That’s a lot of broken stuff. Plus the one box of ceramic tile we ordered was obviously dropped on its side at some point and the ends of half of the tiles were broken off. But at least we were able to use these at the “cut” pieces. And we have a half box of each color left over so there was enough to cover any losses.

Brian took his bike to Lowe’s and is trying to buy the pieces we need plus a few extra to have on hand. I sure hope they have them in stock. I hate it when a job is so close to being done, but you can’t complete it.

Tomorrow will be an easy day. Brian goes back to work. I’m off for one more day, but I can’t work in the bathroom tomorrow because the tile needs to set for 24 hours before it gets any traffic. Tomorrow evening we’ll be able to grout. Then, at least the floor will be done. So, I guess during the day I’ll get caught up on my other work that I’ve been ignoring for the past week. A nap would be nice, too.

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. Thar be still much patchin’ t’ do, but things be finally startin’ t’ look better in thar.

’tis hard t’ believe we`ve been workin’ on th’ hade fer five days already. I think ’tis on accoun’ o’ th’ plumbin’ tookst so long t’ do–th’ three days ‘t encompassed seem like one. We`re nay too far off track, tho. I`d say we`re only about a tide behind me virtual schedule at this point. I be kind o’ lookin’ fore t’ Thursday, tho, as we`re takin’ th’ night off. I`d say se’en days straight be long enough t’ work–we deserve a break.

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