Posts tagged home improvement (it's hard)
set in stone: diy tile (Part 2) :: it takes many tiles to make a tile floor
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As with most of my larger projects, early in the process, I set down a program. On the schedule, we (my wife & I) had planned an upgrade to the brick patterned linoleum tiles that must have sat in the area for decades.
For the task of tiling, in particular, I was excited - it was gonna cost me virtually nothing. A few years back, I had gotten my hands on six boxes of very decent 13x13 porcelain -- the surplus from another job. [ . . . ]
set in stone: diy tile (Part 1) :: laying it out
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My signature - though at times sloppy is still readable. Yes in each case, I can find slight imperfections in all of these floors. The thing that gets me isn't the layout, the cutting or the grouting. It is the setting of the tile. Probably the most mindless of all the tasks; and I ask myself - why is this? I am perfectionist - but I am far from perfect almost every time.
I always wonder, too - what I might learn if I were to attend one of Home Depot's free weekend how-to clinics. I always see it on the board. How-To Tile: Floors and Walls - every weekend for years; I see it on the board outside the store - 10 to 11 . . . Saturday. [ . . . ]
