I would be livid if the plumber did not run a thorough test on a dishwasher installation. This has happened twice and wood floors got ruined. Once was my fault. I turned it on before he had thoroughly tested it. Check carefully to make sure the floor doesn’t start warping.
@momofsenior1 I cannot believe what you have gone through with this project!! Will it ever end?
My house is covered with paint dust. Floor sanding in the utility room to remove oil based paint before tiling- and the plastic won’t stay up. It will be a hard cleanup. Tiler showed up with no goggles, no dust mask, no earplugs. Luckily I had all of the above, and insisted he use them. He laughed when I told him that I wanted him to be able to hear his grandchildren… honestly - who doesn’t wear ear protection for 2 hours of loud intermittent high-speed drilling?
Dishwasher is fixed (the hose fitting was not attached properly an they never ran it). Thankfully they sent the master plumber this time and he was very unhappy with his crew. Hopefully they will feel our pain! It’s been run three times and all seems well.
Handrail in to the new basement stairwell installed today, and they are finishing the kitchen backsplash. Painter is coming Sunday. Then we have another two week wait for the interior doors, trim, and final painting. Praying there are no more issues!
Hubby and I went through the very last of the boxes today and are hanging paintings in the finished rooms. We should be able to move into our new master bedroom a week from tomorrow. Fingers, toes, and everything else crossed.
I was hoping it would be totally done for my DD’s Fall Break but we probably wont be quite over the finished line.
A lot of the trades guys are nuts this way.
One of my builder’s workers was using a pneumatic nailer about 6 inches from his ear. I asked him why he doesn’t use hearing protection and he just laughed and said yeah I’ll probably be deaf when I’m old.
I don’t get it. :-/
Time flies. The wedding is 8 days away. Today DW is going to focus on getting the whole house audio system wired and working. We’ve already run all the speaker wire and CAT 5 cable, and installed in ceiling speakers and volume controls. Now we just need to hook everything up to the amps and hope it all works. Fingers crossed.
I have a small bathroom that needs a new floor. I want to use wood look tile that is about 6x24. The whole bathroom is about 45 sq ft, but is a little chopped up. I want to lay the tile myself. I also want to do my kitchen floor with the same tile, but would start out with the bathroom. It is on concrete slab. I am pretty handy but I don’t have a lot of muscle. Is this something I could reasonably expect to accomplish by myself?
My brother is a professional tile setter. He might be available for consultation, but he doesn’t have time to mess with my little job. Plus he charges a lot!
A small tile job like that is best done by one person, and strength shouldn’t an issue as long as you’re strong enough to lift the tiles. It’ll be important to have a good tile saw; hopefully your brother can loan you one. Good luck!
You don’t need a lot of muscle except for carrying the cases of tile in from the car. One piece doesn’t weigh very much.
The tricky part with tile is making the cuts. You will probably have to rent to wet tile saw, unless you only have to make straight cuts across the tile. Hmm, the saw will be pretty heavy.
Ha! What kind of brother is that? The best reason to have relatives in the trades is so you can get stuff done for cheap. 
I was thinking the same thing about lugging the boxes of tile and wet saw into the house. Definitely heavy.
I think there would only be straight cuts. The tub is not curved. Hmmm. Didn’t think about the tile saw. I’m sure my brother would bring it over and would probably set it up on the back patio for me. And maybe my son would come over to carry the boxes of tile. Or I could open the boxes and carry a few tiles at a time. Not very efficient but us weaklings have to be resourceful. 
You will also need to take out, and then cut around the toilet drain/pipes.
If it’s just straight cuts, you could use a manual tile cutter. You can rent those for a few bucks at Home Depot. For cutting around the toilet drain, you could use tile nippers or a Dremel. When you have to notch a piece, or have multiple cuts, that’s when it gets tricky.
There’s lots of videos on YouTube on how to lay tile.
I’m going to try it! I’ll let you know how it goes. I may need your help getting up off the floor. haha
Please remember that you have to close off water, drain the hose, unhook, drain, and pull out the toilet. You cannot tile around the toilet base. Then you need to scrape out all the old wax ring (disgusting!!) and install new wax ring before installing the toilet back over the new tile. The cuts in tile around the drain hole don’t have to look perfect. Ideally you should grout and seal the grout before putting toilet back in
It’s heavy and gross to the 9th degree.
Please make sure and caulk around toilet base when you are all done
The painting is done! Light grey walls with white trim everywhere, no more brown.
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The fancy kitchen pendants have been installed, and the film peeled off the new windows so you can finally see out of them:
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And my backsplash tile has finally arrived! The picture doesn’t do it justice:
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Hopefully the flooring goes in this week. The end is almost in sight…
Them’s fightin’ words!!
@notrichenough we got our LVT installed a couple of weeks ago and it looks beautiful. You’ll love it!
@notrichenough LOVE LOVE LOVE! Your view is to die for too!
I don’t want to jinx anything but we are getting closer! The dishwasher was repaired and the only thing that needed to be replaced was the toe kick. The painter was here over the weekend and will be back tomorrow. We are just waiting on the closet installer for the pantry and shoe closet and the mirrors. Hopefully all will be wrapped up in the next two weeks!
I’m trying again to create Flicker account so I can post some photos.
Hopefully this works!
The first two are of the new master bath. This space didn’t exist at all and was a small bedroom before.
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The kitchen. Still needs to be repainted but that’s happening on Monday. The old kitchen had a stairwell running down to the basement in the middle of the room, a cramped eat in area and fridge floating in the middle of the space. Totally unusable. The new stairwell is under the main stairs where it should have been all along ; )
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