Archive for February, 2008

Break the inner seal
OR
Grouting and caulking.

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
rob_grouting

Rob grouting The remaining steps after putting the tile on the wall are grouting and caulking. Tuesday night I spent about 4 hours grouting. It turned out to be one of the hardest parts of the project in my opinion. As we have learned, grout is specially colored mortar, which you put between the tiles [...]

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Don’t take shortcuts
OR
The tile is on the wall

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
cement_board_mudded_and_taped

cement board taped and mudded We haven’t posted anything in a couple weeks not for lack of home improvement projects, but rather because we have been spending most of our free time doing them. In the last couple weeks we really started getting serious about finishing the tile around the bathtub. cement board on wet [...]

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