Tiling Part One

We started Saturday morning. With plenty of this:


Although Cowboy may have preferred this:


I was told the tile saw I purchased was just as good as the one I would rent...
(perhaps too much of the above photo on the part of the Sales Guy)

Safety first (seriously, have I NO pride?!)...


First we measured. Then we chalked. Then we laid out. Then I thought the project was a burden and WHAT WAS I THINKING. WHERE'S THAT OLD DISGUSTING CARPET? oh yeah - Cowboy hauled it away a month ago... back to the pre-tiling experience.


2 1/2 hours later we were ready to mix the thinset and lay our first tile.



I remember from my THREE CLASSES (same one, three times) at Hom*e Dep*ot, that you are NOT supposed to trowel the thinset this way:


But THIS way... (Cowboy, of course, already knew that)


1 1/2 hours in


3 hours in


5 hours in


Cowboy handling the Tile Saw


8 hours in and that TRICKY PIECE BY THE PANTRY... I said, "If the door needs to come off that's fine. I'll just throw it away." The door came off... I'm not throwing it away...


Sunday... last piece...






grouting comes tomorrow (Thursday).