Removing Flooring

2/25/12

Back Bathroom Flooring

    These photos were taken just a couple of hours after the grout was placed so it dried out lighter than this and we’ve been able to clean up the excess grout.

Working on Back Bathroom

  

We’ve been working with Glenn once again to get our back bathroom functioning again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We gutted the bathroom last year and had the walls repaired and repainted. 

 

 

When the new stone flooring was installed in the living room we kept the leftovers of tile, mortar, grout, trim, and backer board for this small 25 sq. ft. bathroom.  Laying the flooring for such a small area would be a great teaching experience.  

 

This video shows us laying the backer board:

 

 

 

 

 

Floor’s Finished!

 

The work on our new flooring was finished this morning! The house looks so different!

Hallway Bathroom

 

Monday: The backer board was cut for the entire work area. There was a problem w had to resolve with the installers about sealing the grout, so that stalled progress a bit. Supplies were carried inside and we took out the squeaks in the subfloor.

Tuesday: The backer board was fastened to the subfloor with nails and adhesive. They had set the tile in the living room, kitchen and laundry room.

Wednesday: The tile in the hallway bathroom, the front entry and also the hallway was set. The tile they had set on Tuesday was grouted.

Thursday: They grouted the hallway, bathroom and entry and also installed thresholds for the doorways and stairs. Installed additional small tile in bathroom. Packed up their tools and left before noon.

Preparing to paint trim

It was a creative challenge to navigate through the house without stepping on mortar or grout that had to dry. While the installers were working in the hallway the 3 of us couldn’t get to our bedrooms, so we had to come up with some creative solutions so we could climb through the windows!   It looks like we’re practicing our fire drills.

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Noah and I started getting sick yesterday and today we feel a lot worse. I spent the majority of the day in bed.

Tomorrow we’ll be moving in some of the lighter pieces of furniture and laying down the baseboards. We’re hoping that on Saturday we’ll be able to move in the appliances, so we can cook a meal again! We’re going to use the left over tile, mortar and grout to put the same flooring into the back bathroom ourselves. It’s very small, so it shouldn’t be too much work.

 

Back Bathroom

Ronda started working on the hallway bathroom and the back bathroom.

Hallway bathroom

In the back bathroom she stripped off the old, peeling paint and repairing the walls with drywall mud. The walls in the hallway bathroom were really messed up too, so she used some joint compound to fix the holes and dents.

Floor’s Finished!

 

The work on our new flooring was finished this morning! The house looks so different!

Hallway Bathroom

 

Monday: The backer board was cut for the entire work area. There was a problem w had to resolve with the installers about sealing the grout, so that stalled progress a bit. Supplies were carried inside and we took out the squeaks in the subfloor.

Tuesday: The backer board was fastened to the subfloor with nails and adhesive. They had set the tile in the living room, kitchen and laundry room.

Wednesday: The tile in the hallway bathroom, the front entry and also the hallway was set. The tile they had set on Tuesday was grouted.

Thursday: They grouted the hallway, bathroom and entry and also installed thresholds for the doorways and stairs. Installed additional small tile in bathroom. Packed up their tools and left before noon.

Preparing to paint trim

It was a creative challenge to navigate through the house without stepping on mortar or grout that had to dry. While the installers were working in the hallway the 3 of us couldn’t get to our bedrooms, so we had to come up with some creative solutions so we could climb through the windows!   It looks like we’re practicing our fire drills.

.

Noah and I started getting sick yesterday and today we feel a lot worse. I spent the majority of the day in bed.

Tomorrow we’ll be moving in some of the lighter pieces of furniture and laying down the baseboards. We’re hoping that on Saturday we’ll be able to move in the appliances, so we can cook a meal again! We’re going to use the left over tile, mortar and grout to put the same flooring into the back bathroom ourselves. It’s very small, so it shouldn’t be too much work.

 

Back Bathroom

Ronda started working on the hallway bathroom and the back bathroom.

Hallway bathroom

In the back bathroom she stripped off the old, peeling paint and repairing the walls with drywall mud. The walls in the hallway bathroom were really messed up too, so she used some joint compound to fix the holes and dents.

Floor Almost Finished

The work on the new flooring continued today.

 

We purchased some matching tile for the bathroom that would be placed up on the wall. However, the drywall behind the toilet looked like it had some water damage so we had to repair it.

 

Thankfully the mold hadn’t penetrated all of the way through the drywall.

Before mud/tape

 

After the first coat...

 

 

We set up a place to eat lunch downstairs.