We thought drywall and popcorn removal created a lot of dust. Ha! That's funny! Tearing out many, many square feet of tile creates A LOT of dust - an unbelievable amount, actually. Whoever said we'd be finding dust for years to come was really probably right. Oh goodie.
So, complaining aside, we are very excited to be at this stage of the project. Monday started the fun with the tearing out of the existing tile...
This photo was taken at about 8:30 in the morning.
The above two photos were taken at about 10:30 in the morning. Crazy!!
The above pictures are what it looked like by early afternoon.
Things were flying right along and we optimistically started to think they could start laying the new tile on Monday afternoon when *screeeeech* things came to a halt. Turns out, the actual slab of the house has some pretty major dips in it in the middle of the living room and at the end of the hallway. The previous tile was able to be put down with extra mastic in the low places, so we were not aware of the issue. However, the new tile is long, so not nearly as forgiving, so the floor has to be leveled out. On Monday afternoon, the tile guys filled in the low parts and called it a day to let it dry overnight.
Tuesday morning, they "floated" a thin coat of concrete all over the entire floor - looks like this:
And of course, it has been rainy and gross and foggy all day today, so it is not going to get dry until the morning. So we have no tile yet (patience!). The good news about this, though, is that we get to spend the night with my folks, which means we got Mom food for dinner instead of having to eat out, so that's a bit of happiness in the midst of this mess.
And now they're saying we could have sleet and frozen roads overnight and into the mornings on Wednesday and Thursday, so we're just hoping that bridges will be open and everyone can get to where they need to be, aka our house to lay tile!
We'll keep you posted!
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