Addition

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Re: Addition

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This weekend we got into tiling the bathroom walls. We started off by using a laser level and found that from the exterior wall to the shower the floor slopes about a 3/8 of an inch (not bad, consider the shower is almost directly in the middle of the floor joist span). The bottom row will be a baseboard tile, so our plan to make up the gap is to cut down the baseboard tile on the high side of the bathroom (by about 1/8"), and caulk/grout the gap on the low side (1/8" gap for caulk and 1/8" for grout).

With this figured out we installed some ledger boards and got at it. Subway tile isn't difficult, but it is tedious.

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We actually started on the left side of the picture, and it is somewhat dumb luck that the tile was evenly split on the far wall. We quit about halfway up this wall because the mortar was drying out. This is about as far as we will go until the cabinets are installed.
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Looks great; a lot of tile & time for sure! ;)

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That looks really good; that's what the hubby wants to do in ours.

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Other than a bit of trim and paint we finished the bathroom. It is so nice to have a shower!

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Looking very nice. I just started from the beginning and viewed the progress and realized it took you a couple of years to get to this point, and that your home is now twice what it once was.
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