Days 18-19: More Mudding - Tile Layout
A couple more coats of joint compound (mud). It's improving, but I'm still not very excited. And I seriously would be perfectly satisfied if I never had to do this ever again. Worst. Task. Ever.
Some pics:
Seth from Mendel came out on Tuesday to help me lay the tile. At his suggestion, I also applied some of the thin-set (tile adhesive) to the Durock joints in the shower area. That's what you see in the last picture.
After some discussion with Seth, we decided to try it ourselves. He helped me layout the floor tiles and get a starting point so we wouldn't end up cutting little slivers of tile along the bathtub or doorway (the most visible areas). We also spent some time coming up with a strategy for the walls. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), the floor is not level. A professional would have checked before installing the underlayment, but I clearly am not a professional!
This causes all sorts of problems. If we were just tiling the floor and shower stall, it would be no problem. But because we have tile on the walls with a chair rail on top, we need that chair rail to be level around the room. So, that means the beautiful cove base tile that we'd intended to go along the bottom of the room won't work, because it'd need to be cut shorter on the outside wall, and it just isn't possible to make a nice joint with a cut side. As a result, we'll need to just do a regular tile along the bottom, and trim it shorter as we move toward the outside wall.
Tiling is next!
Some pics:
Seth from Mendel came out on Tuesday to help me lay the tile. At his suggestion, I also applied some of the thin-set (tile adhesive) to the Durock joints in the shower area. That's what you see in the last picture.
After some discussion with Seth, we decided to try it ourselves. He helped me layout the floor tiles and get a starting point so we wouldn't end up cutting little slivers of tile along the bathtub or doorway (the most visible areas). We also spent some time coming up with a strategy for the walls. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), the floor is not level. A professional would have checked before installing the underlayment, but I clearly am not a professional!
This causes all sorts of problems. If we were just tiling the floor and shower stall, it would be no problem. But because we have tile on the walls with a chair rail on top, we need that chair rail to be level around the room. So, that means the beautiful cove base tile that we'd intended to go along the bottom of the room won't work, because it'd need to be cut shorter on the outside wall, and it just isn't possible to make a nice joint with a cut side. As a result, we'll need to just do a regular tile along the bottom, and trim it shorter as we move toward the outside wall.
Tiling is next!
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