Tuesday, November 6, 2007

I should have outsourced to India


Progress on our new home is not necessarily slow, but steady. I have been doing most of the work myself with Belinda working on the weekends or hear and there after work if she isn't too tired. I spent all day in the bathroom and NO my colon is just fine.

I spent the better part of 10 hours laying tile. Unfortunately half of that time was walking from the wet tile saw, then back to the bathroom floor, then finding the tape measure, measuring, cutting the tile, walking back to the bathroom, fitting the tile, spreading thin-set mortar, laying the tile on the mortar, putting in the spacers......rinse and repeat.

It really isn't hard work, but extremely time consuming if you want it to look worth a damn. If all goes well it will be finished by tomorrow evening. I have about 9 pieces/spaces to go totally bout 4 square feet.

P.S. I am glad we opted for the 16x16 tiles and not the 12x12. The cuts are longer, but fewer.
P.S.S? WET DIAMOND TILE SAWS FTW!!!!

4 comments:

Raven said...

some times i wonder what i would do with my time if it werent for all these damn home improvemtn projects im always tied up in.

milkman said...

P.P.S (post post scriptus): nice Fresh Step.

Phil said...

Thats what I was mixing the thin-set mortar in.

Justin Short said...

Considering your geographic location, you would've been better off taking advantage of NAFTA.