Tile Prep & Floor

1. We planted an Hibiscus at the end of our fence rail after the new podocarpus to give a little flowering plant to our driveway entrance.

2.  I found out that after putting the wonder board on the shower stall for tiling that it needs to be painted with a waterproof membrane called Red Gard which goes on pink and turns red when it dries.  It needed two coats.

3. We plan on tiling the shower on Sunday with Milton as supervisor.  Milton is Marilyn's father if you just joined the blog.  Now we're wondering if the shower tile which is the same as the floor tile will be overkill in the bathroom.  I'm okay with it since we did buy some different accent tile but Tony (who is building his house vicariously with us) thinks it's over kill.  We'll have a translucent shower door and the pan is not tiled but a prefab.  Any suggestion from the experts out there?


 3. We started to lay the vinyl floor and decided to do a practice run on the guest bedroom.  There is a learning curve but we quickly figured it out and working as a team with Tony doing the cutting, me on the floor putting it together, and Crissie feeding us the vinyl planks we got 3/4s of the room done in an hour.  We finished today and it looks great.  So we decided to for it and start the kitchen  and living area since we think we have it down.  Tony is the cutter, Crissie is the feeder/gopher, and I'm the assembler.  Works pretty good.

4. We opened the wood stove and put it where we planned it to go.  Our countertop guy sold us a big remnant slab which he will cut and put an edge on that we will use for the hearth.  He'll also cut two wall pieces in the corner where the stove is.

We're moving along.

Wonderboard is up and waterproofed and ready for tiling.

Practicing flooring in the bedroom

My main cutman

Bedroom finished

Wood stove nearly in place.  Notice the lines closest to the stove.  Those are the ones that the
granite slab will fit into.  Then about 18 inches up from the floor and along the back walls, the rest of
the granite will go.  It's a 5x5 foot slab with the front corner cut off as you can see.  Should look great.

Working on the main living area. Yes, I'm wearing knee pads.