More tile

Shortly after the last post I put up the upper section of that wall, and ran out of mortar. So then was waiting for some more (Menards is changing brands so I had my dad pick some up as he was closer to a store that had some). Then there was a long period of no work on the house. Things were being done, just not house project things.

Sometime in there I came up with a way to fix my mistake of starting the first row of tile that I did too high. There was more than a tile worth of space left. whoops. When I stopped at Home Despot to buy a new drill with a birthday giftcard, I took another look at the tile. I found the accent trim and I liked it so I bought some for alyska to see. She liked it too so I got enough to do a stripe. (I should have thought of this before I did the top row too)

Last Sunday tour_spot dropped off a load of stuff on her way though town, including the bag of mortar. Woo.

So fast forward to today, I put up the band of accent tile, then measured and cut the bottom row of tile with the wet-saw. Then I put that up along with the tiles around the control handle and some up against the cabinet. That leaves 3 tiles (showerhead, 2 corners on wet wall, cut and ready to go) plus the 7 pieces of bullnose on the bedroom wall to put up tomorrow and it will look like a mostly complete tile job. There will still be some unfinished edges because they are to be determined by what happens elsewhere in the room.

Then it will be time to go through all of the grout lines to make sure there is room for the grout. This mainly has to happen on the tile I just put up as I had already done most of the other during the time when I didn't have any mortar.


When the tile is done I can send the borrowed tile saw and the rest of the bag of mortar home with my dad when he comes down to drop off the drill-presses and things. I don't think the overall change in garage space will be in my favor though, although the utility of that space will go up. ^_^


(updated by jeffreyp)