After what seems like an eternity I feel I am finally making some headway in the master bathroom, having almost completed the shower curb, the floor, and have got a fairly good start on the walls. As everything is being tiled I had to spend a lot of time leveling and preparing all the surfaces, cutting holes in the tiles for the toilet and bathtub drains, replacing worn wet saw blades (which are not cheap), cutting and adhering the Ditra membrane over the cement floor - this is supposed to neutralize movement stresses between the substrate and tile to eliminate cracking of the tiles - and, after much exasperation with hand held bubble levels finally getting a 360 degree laser level. This has been an invaluable tool and certainly will ensure a professional look when I'm finished. I will slog along for the next few weeks but don't expect me to finish tiling or even grouting before heading out to Europe at the end of March. This has been one hell of a cold winter and although we really only had two major snow storms up here on the mountain it has been too cold to melt. It will be nice to get away from it all but more on that later. But when we get back in May I don't want to see ANY snow! gws
 |
| cutting the Ditra uncoupling membrane |
 |
| Ditra after laying with modified thin-set |
 |
| Laying 12x24 tiles over DitraAdd caption |
 |
| Cutting perfect circle in tile for toilet drain - damn I'm good! |
 |
| shot of shower curb and tile work in process |
 |
| CST Berger 360 degree laser level |
 |
| playing with the laser |
 |
| tiling wall (24x12) and preparing level for glass tile |
 |
| glass tile border |
 |
| close up of shell inlay in glass tile |
 |
| one side, three to go... |
