Thursday, January 29, 2009

Bathroom Remodel - End of Day 2

Well, yesterday marked the official second day of the remodeling. Joel made fantastic progress and had a little bit of extra help, which made things go a smidgen faster! I had to go run to Mom and Dad's to pick up some tile spacers and while I was gone our missionaries stopped by to see how we were doing. By the time I got home they were getting ready to help Joel mix mortar and cut tiles...in their suits! We are truly blessed to have such awesome missionaries in our ward!

Joel worked on setting the tiles and would mark them, then the missionaries would take them out and cut them. It went pretty smoothly. In about an hour or less Joel had all the basic cuts and whole tiles mortared down. The missionaries headed out and Joel marked the more difficult cuts and finished cutting all but three tiles. He would have gone all the way but it was 10pm by that time and as he said, "I could feel the hate." from all the neighbors over the loud tile saw.

So all tiles are attached to the floor with the exception of the three that are the most difficult (he needs to trim several angles to fit around the door jamb.) I think the mortar needs to rest and cure for 24 hours before he can grout. Then the grout cures for 24 hours, then we can put the toilet and vanity in! WAHOO!

Sarah woke up this morning and helped pick up all the tile spacers and put them in their box. She loved it, I got some video but it's just too long to post on here. Hopefully Joel will be able to get a few more things done tonight and we can move on to all the fun stuff!





3 comments:

Zach said...

It's looking good!

mamaseversike said...

wow! How does he know how to DO that? I am amazed. It's beautiful.

Jennis said...

so here I was thinking to myself I want to see your new bathroom and I think you should send me some pictures!! but what really needs to happen is that your sis-in-law needs to keep up on her blogs better and I would know that you DID put pictures up of your bathroom and it, like everything else you've done, looks AWESOME!! If he ever gets tired at Schwabs I think he could make a very good lving at being a remodeler guy! what do you call those guy? Home Improvement Specialist. Then you could charge people MILLIONS!! YES!