We're Back!!!
Back in November we decided that we shouldn't let the wait for everything to be finished stop us from working so we decided to start working on the powder room. This is the room that made this remodeling craziness start a lot earlier than it would have!
Here it was right after the flooding...
If you remember, the company sent over by the insurance company tried to dry out the grout, with no luck.
So they ripped the tile out and left us with this. It stayed like this for an embarrassingly long time, but we were getting a new kitchen, new wood floors etc...
I picked out what I wanted for the floor, found it online (it wasn't available anywhere around here). Dave went and bought grout and everything else he needed and got to work.
First he ripped off the layer of particle board that was covered with the old grout and put down a layer of fiberock.
Then he started cutting and setting tiles. I wanted a boarder around the hex tile, and we found a 4"x4" tile that matches.
The corner was a little tricky, but he figured it out.
Next came the hex tile. It comes in sheets, but when Dave tried to cut it with the wet tile saw, the tiles fell off the backing... So he bought a hand tile slicer and scored and cut each tile that was going to be an edge piece one by one...
He then set the tiles. Doing the edges first.
We had a couple of trim pieces that we were going to use for something else, but they worked perfectly for making sure everything was straight.
Yay!!!
A couple of days later it was time to grout. I choose a light/medium warm gray grout
No finished picture yet... After the grout was done we moved into the walls... post coming later this week!
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