Tuesday, May 24, 2011

More tile work




The nice weather is officially here, so I spent alot of the last weekend outside, plus the lawn is growing 2" a day, so that means plenty of mowing to do. I did get a little bit done in the house though. The bathroom floor is all grouted and ready to be sealed. I also installed the tile on the fireplace base, surround and overmantle. I still need to get that tile grouted, but that will be a quick and easy job.


Here is the tilework on the overmantle. The untiled area is where the TV bracket will mount.


To cut the curved pieces, I made a template out of cardboard, traced it on the tile, then used my angle grinder with a 4" diamond wheel. Then I sanded out any imperfections. Marble is actually relatively easy to shape and sand.



The tile around the fireplace insert was really easy, no cut edges of tile are visible, they are all covered up by the mantle and the insert. I pretty much just had to roughly cut the tiles to size and set them in place.


Here is a close up of the grouted floor. Once I seal it, the grout will darken up some.


Another pic of the floor

1 comment:

BREAKINGPOINT said...

Looks awesome Jason. I can't wait to actually see it. Note: don't ever let the boys use that bathroom.

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