The entryway of the house is tiled with small, dark rust tiles. They are not my favorite because of the darkness. But even worse, these things are dangerous as can be! Even the tiniest amount of moisture on one's shoe and they are sure to fall violently. No way such a fall wouldn't result in serious injury or death.
We've kept a rug on this tile and warned everyone to never make contact with the tile.
With the wedding coming up, we decided to replace the tile so we didn't kill a parent in our own entryway.
I tiled in my house in Houston, but that has been almost 20 years ago! This tiling would be a bit different since it would be on plywood (versus concrete), and this floor had tile that needed to be removed (versus cheesy vinyl flooring - yuck!).
First step was to get up the old tile. That stuff was stuck on with some super human adhesive. It took us several hours and required eye protection as well as ear plugs.
After getting it up, we had to scrape the wood to get off as much debris as possible.
At this point, Dave headed for the desert and our friend Mark Cartwright came over to help with the floor.
Well, I say help, when in reality Mark really did 98% of the work! He has the coolest tile saw! And he was just fun to hang out with.
After several hours, the tile was done. Next we just needed to wait for the mortar to dry.
At this point, we haven't grouted (that comes this Saturday). When I get that done, I'll post photos of the finished product this Saturday or Sunday. Maybe this time, someone will get a phto of me demonstrating that I'm working too!Edit:
Grouting is complete. Mark came over and helped with this also (or I should say, I helped). It went quickly and the floor looks awesome.
It's crazy how awful the tile floor in the bathroom looks now. Hmmmmm... :)
2 comments:
OMG!! You had TILES of DEATH" in your house! You willfully exposed your friends to serious injury or DEATH for years simply to come watch cool slideshows!
You people are ruthless - what were you going to do - rifle my pockets as I lay helpless and paralyzed on you door step?
What were you doing to do with the BODIES?! Huh? Did you think of that!?
How do you think we've been financing this little "vacation"? :) We'll have to develop a new funding stream now!
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