Tile Sunday

Today Milton Cravello and his wife, Agnes (Marilyn's mom and dad) came over from Hilo (about an hours drive) with all the tools for tiling.  Milton is a wealth of information and he has just about any tool in the book to get a job done.  Today it was tiling.  We bought the tile before we left for the mainland last spring and Milton measured the bathrooms we were going to tile, took the tile measurements, and drew out a plan for the way they should be placed.

So today we reaped the fruits of his planning and did the master bathroom.  Now we still have to grout and do the other bathrooms but we should get it done this week.  The vanities are here and we can put them in over the tile.  By using a little more tile and resting the vanities on top of it, we didn't have to make any unusual cuts.  We did have a couple of walls to negotiate and that's why we did the hardest bathroom first.

Here are the pics.

Milton the supervisor and Tony and I doing a "dry run" to see if Milton's plan will work.  It did.

Of course while we were working, Marilyn got a good visit in with Agnes and grandson, Luca.  That's

Puno in the foreground and Agnes's dog, Mele in the back.  Good to see they're enjoying the lanai.

Yes, I have knee pads.  Working the thin set and laying the tiles with the blue spacers.

It can be messy work.  Looks like I'm painting myself back against the wall.  I just turned around and went the other way.

All done.  Just cut the square around the toilet phlange.
Back at bathroom two tomorrow.  Thanks Milton.