i will never quit my day job
September 21
On one hand, tiling was the first step that has actually made the bathroom look less like a disaster zone. On the other hand, this is holy crap back-breaking work. And of course because I'm an idiot, I was bent over most of the process (I can hear my mother yelling "Bend your knees! Lift with your legs!")
My boys are off with their dad, so my niece was my co-tiler. We started off with a trip to Home Deport where I bought a tile scorer and a pair of nippers. This decision turned out to be laughable. The tile is 12 x 24 and 5/8" thick. The tile scorer was quickly defeated. So off to Home Depot! I found a tile saw for $80, so I decided to buy instead of rent. It worked great with the exception that I had it on the floor outside and this really killed my back.
Tiling itself is not too bad and after we got a rhythm down, it went pretty well. I only received one injury. I dropped one of the tiles on my toe and that stuff is not light. Oh and we ran out of thinset and had to go back to Home Depot again. (My niece claims we went to HD four times, but I can't remember a fourth time, but I will be going through my receipts to double check!)
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The following weekend, my niece come over again and helped me grout. This task is easy but we had to have a never ending supply line of clean water. We were using three buckets at a time and we still had to make at least 15 trips outside for clean water.
