Bathroom redo

The tile is totally installed and the grout is setting. Or curing. Or resting. Or whatever it is that grout does. I didn't realize how big of a room this was until I wasn't even halfway done putting down tile and wanted to quit. Everything hurt and with the kiddos it just wasn't possible to get it all done in one day. Disappointing. John and I tag team a lot, but the time constraints just got to be too much. The mortar needs to be used within 2 hours and then you need fresh stuff.

The way it works is : John mixes mortar for me (FYI: many, many Mordor references were made this week, which was very amusing. Every single time.).

Kelly installs the tiles using the mortar. John is too much an engineer for this job. He likes it to be perfect and will spend too much time on one area. The one area will be perfect, but then wall will be crooked causing John's perfect work to be for naught. Kelly can make it look good enough and isn't so worried about perfection.

John's next job is to cut all the pieces of tile to size for the corners/edges/doors/etc. this is a messy job because a tile saw shoots water for some reason (ask John, I'm sure he can explain. In fact, I'm sure he has explained it to me at least once.). Now that our basement is finished, we don't have a great place inside where he can go and cut tiles. This week it meant John was cutting tiles in the garage. This normally wouldn't be too bad except the temperatures this week were record setting cold. We kept bringing hot water out to keep the saw from freezing and John's giant work light with a heat bulb pointed at the saw. It was still really cold. So cold that John decided he was tired of getting all wet and so he made himself a poncho so he would be drier and warmer.

Last night I helped him clean up in the garage after putting in the last tile and when I picked up a piece of the saw, it stuck to my skin. My hand was damp from cleaning up a bucket of mortar and the metal stuck to my skin. That hasn't happened to me in years! I was so surprised!