No pictures today. They’d look pretty much like all the other pictures.
Tiling is complete and the bedroom and bath are awash in dust. Straight cuts in the tile were made with your standard score and snap tile cutter. Notch cuts were made with and edge grinder which was smaller which was less messy than a wet saw, but it generated a good amount of really fine silica dust. The cleanup process will not be quick.
My number one job today was to acquire grout. Laurel and I had found a variety at Flooring Direct Maui, a small retailer, that was just the right shade. The other vendors, including the big box stores, just didn’t seem to have what we were looking for. Paul, our tile guru, had requested 25 lbs of un-sanded for the walls and 10 lbs of sanded for the floor–grout type based on the size of the joints.
When I got to Flooring Direct, I was told they could only come up with 15 lbs. of un-sanded and no sanded. After some digging, they did find two 9 lbs. bags of sanded. I took it all. When I returned to the condo, I did a few calculations using charts on the grout bags and figured we needed someplace a little over 9 lbs. of un-sanded and little over 6 lbs. of sanded. We should be in great shape with the grout.
Just in case the grout I had wouldn’t work, I stopped by Lowe’s to see what they had. They had nothing we could use in the way of grout, but while I was there, I checked on commode that I was unable to find the day before and not only did they have one, but the price had dropped over $60. It was really the one I wanted, so I headed home, squeezed the old one into my compact Chevy, returned it to HD and bought the new. If I’m making two trips to town in one day, we must be in the middle of a 10-209 construction project.