Yes, we talk tile

Hello all. With the kitchen about as far as we could take it for the moment, we switched gears to tackle the upstairs bathroom. While the bathrooms were all usable none of them were particularly nice and certainly not what we wanted. 

Here's what we started with. The blue electrical box where the floor meets the wall is where the electric heater was.

After taking out the cabinet, mirror, toilet, and other sundries we were ready to begin. One thing made this job a bit easier was learning that vinyl tile is a fine surface on which to lay tile as long as it's in good shape. This saved us from tearing up the tile and dealing with the glue underneath. 

After picking out tile, the first step is always to make your peanut-butter consistency cement. Definitely creamy and not chunky.

One hazard of working with the cement and later grout is that it's quite messy. At least as we do it. It's hard not to end the day looking like Pig Pen.

The tiling itself went pretty smoothly. The only places we needed to use the wet saw to cut tile to fit was around the toilet and along the sides. That meant the bulk of the work was ensuring the pattern lined up.

Once the tile was in place and set we added the trim around the baseboard. Far easier to install before the toilet.

Until next time.