In one room at least. After a weekend of patching, scraping, and spreading glue, I finally have a bedroom floor!
Patching concrete is tons of fun. Like icing a lumpy cake with mildly caustic frosting and trying to get it perfectly smooth.
Glue is down! (Finally. It took forever.)
Once the glue had set up so I could lay down the tile, things went pretty quickly. The hardest part was the fiddly bits around the edges and corners where the tiles had to be cut. The tile cuts easily, but it’s a lot of work. Mother Dearest selflessly helped me and did a lot of the edges, I helped out once I was done laying the whole tiles.
Beautiful, beautiful floor! And yes, I know that one is a slightly different color – it’s in upside down do it has a dull finish rather than a shiny one.
:sigh:
I could look at this all day.
The closet was a nightmare, very cramped and a lot of tiles had to be trimmed.
Thanks to a ciphering error on my part, the tiles had a very wide border on one side of the room and a very narrow one on the other. This also led to problems in the closet, where tiles had to be trimmed all the way around. I’m pretty sure Mother Dearest will have nightmares about being trapped in a closet with tile.
Ghostie’s glue-hand!
This stuff is super-sticky and does not like coming off skin.
Now may not be the time to bring it up, but Daddy was a contractor and he would snap two chalk lines on a floor to be tiled – dividing the room into 4 sqaur-ish sections. He’d then start laying tiles at the intersection – 4 tiles – and work from there to the walls. Guarantees an even fit every time…but, I’m sure you knew that already.
We did have chalk line down, but with this glue there’s no way to work from the center out without gluing yourself to the floor so you have to start at the doorway and work in. I thought I had it measured so that there would be a wide border around the edge of the room to make things look more centered, but it ended up with a really wide border on one side and a really narrow one on the other. Mea culpa, my math was off; also I laid the first tile down slightly crooked, which knocked everything else slightly off-whack.It doesn’t look too bad for a first effort, though.
What a LOT of work! And I think it looks great! I’m not sure I could have done it. Even if I could get down on my knees. One room down!
Now that you’re an expert on floors, can you come and install carpet in all the rooms of my house?
Seriously, though, it looks great. Good job, Ghostie!
Don’t know how to install carpet, but I’ve had lots of practice at removing it!