Hello all. Having done such a bang-up job tiling the upstairs bathroom, we were emboldened to try our luck again. This time in the laundry room. As in the bathroom, we decided to tile over the existing linoleum. It was a nice, hard, and level surface without any chipping or peeling.
What it lacked was any sense of style. Not too surprising since it doubles as a mudroom off the back deck. After painting the walls the same yellow as the rooms around it we could turn to the flooring. We opted for large ceramic tiles with a faux stone look which is much easier to maintain than actual stone tiles.
Here's an action photo. Note the "crouching action!"
Here's the floor with all the tile down...
Then we hit a small snag. Remember the problem we ran into with the hardwood? Well in this case we thought that one of the tiles didn't go with the others. Something all of us learned decades ago, right?
Fortunately there's a reasonably straight-forward fix. Isolate the tile with some tape to minimize the risk of damage to the surrounding tiles, then patiently use hammer, chisel, drill with the right bit, tile scorer, dremel with the right blade, and anything else you can think of to break up and remove the offending tile.
Then it's a simple matter to mix up cement again and lay a new tile.
One we had done that we could install the baseboard, and we really were nearly done.
Of course the title of this post is our homage to this classic flick.
Until next time.
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