Floor Tile

Thank goodness I talked Kade into laying out and cutting the floor tiles BEFORE we put the mortar down!!  As usual...this took us FOREVER to do!  It took us 7 hours today to lay out the pattern, get it all cut to fit, and actually lay 4 of the 6 rows!  I like it though...and I really like that we didn't just do a straight square pattern.  I think we're going to do the same pattern in the clutter room too, just in a much darker tile.

Still not sure how I feel about the Ditra.  Guess we'll see how it treats our tiles over the next few years.

Another shot for Bran

Oh yeah...and I forgot to mention...we're taking part in a surpise party tomorrow for a VERY good friend of our family, so Mom, Sara and I had to finish icing the cupcakes before we could go to bed.

Oh yeah...and then there was the perseids meteor shower tonight as well, ha ha.  I was already up late, so I figured I might as well go watch for some shooting stars.  Sara (my sister) and I went up to the new house and just laid down int he driveway.  Finally we've had a little break in the weather...cause we were FREEZING!  Above is the pic I took when I was trying to take a pic of myself!  Look in the top 1/3rd of the pic...it's the shooting star that Sara asked me if I saw when I forgot to flip the camera to take my pic, lol, guess I got to see it after all.

Berrrrrr it was cold.  Hoodie & Jeans, Skull & Crossbones Snuggy....perfect weather!!

Now to bed I must go...we've got lots to do in the morning!

Something We've Been Waiting For

FLOORING!!!  Well...why is it that NOTHING can go as planned??  We gave the delivery company 4 out of 5 days that they COULD deliver the flooring...and they wanted to do it on the ONE day that we weren't available. UGH!!  SO....Harmans to the rescue again!!  Mike and I went to Litchfield this afternoon and picked up the flooring at the delivery company's building.  To top it off....the guys all came after work and helped carry all of the flooring into the house....So...a special thanks to Mike, Mark, Jeffie and Johnny Harman and Al Dugan!!  With the 5 of them and Kade they got it moved in in no time at all!

There's Mike out there giving the guy some instruction.

 Mike lending a helping hand

Jeffie

The Home Depot delivery guy....

wait....what's he doing here??

Oh wait...that's just Mark, lol.

He's way better than any Home Depot delivery guy :)

SOME of the new floor.  We had 72 boxes total...

at 70lbs per box.  And the best part, I didn't even have to carry one of them  :)

I had to open a box just to get a look at what we've got...oh man...I LOVE IT!

Look at the gorgeous antique look.  Can't wait till it's installed!

After the guys left Kade and I got busy and we got the Ditra installed as promised :)  It went in a lot easier than I thought it would.

 

And we got to install the final bullnose tiles with the mortar we used laying the Ditra!

FINALLY....THE TUB SURROUND IS TILED!!

Now I'm going to start worrying about the grout, ha ha!

Prep Work

Tonight we didn't get much done (seems we have a lot of evenings like that!)  We did get the Ditra cut for the bathroom floor though.  Tomorrow night we'll get that put down.  This stuff is so weird.  It's a tile underlayment, you spread out mortar, push this down into it, then you tile right over the top...just like you'd normally lay the tile.  Now I'm nervous about putting down the floor tile, lol.

There's Kade cutting the vent hole in the Ditra.

You just lay it edge to edge...and tile...you don't even have to wait for the mortar to dry underneath.

A little something for Bran.

Tomorrow the hardwood floor is suppose to be delivered...YEAH!!  Can't wait to get that installed (and yes, we're planning on installing that too, WHAT is wrong with us??)