Cement board done in the shower, and the floor tile has been cut and will be put in tomorrow:
The speed with which this guy is moving, this will be done in a couple more days.
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ralph wiggum
Don’t forget to put a moisture barrier over the cement board if the guy didn’t put one underneath. Big moisture problems if you don’t. Use Redguard. Two coats.
Maude
Wow. He knows what he’s doing. That tile will be a dream to keep clean and it is wonderful.
I was hoping you’d post pictures.
Splitting Image
Are you still alive? Limbs intact?
You did say someone else was doing this for you, right?
Jewish Steel
Top photo: Rothko or drywall. You make the call!
Roger Moore
@Jewish Steel:
Drywall. Rothko would never put writing on one of his color fields.
Joshua Norton
Two more days is still a long time to keep your legs crossed.
Gin & Tonic
Don’t you have a camera that can focus?
Gin & Tonic
Don’t you have a camera that can focus?
Roger Moore
@Joshua Norton:
No problem. John lives in a state where peeing off your back porch is socially acceptable.
NotMax
Surprising? Sadly, no.
A bit more analysis:
muddy
@Roger Moore: People don’t do that everywhere?
Steeplejack
@Jewish Steel:
Heh. I was immediately thinking Rothko, from his little-known “monochrome” period.
the Conster
#Romneyshambles has merged with #AmericanBorat and the Brits are rocking teh twitter machine.
65 yr old w/#AngloSaxonHeritage,no business experience since 1999, seeks position, possibly as leader of the Free World.
@MichelleObama has arrived in London to save America’s honor.
Brutal. Willard’s jumped the shark and is now a clown act. Awesome.
the Conster
Next up: driving around London with the Queen’s corgis on his roof.
Ouch.
danielx
@ralph wiggum:
Amazing – I laid tile in a past life and the products that are available today would have made life SO much easier back then. Of course back then, greenboard was still an acceptable backer board in a production setting, and you could figure to the month when it was going to fail.
NotMax
@the Conster
On the wrong side of the street.
maven
I’m in need……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmP2hzpmPnM
Abstruse
Hardibacker people. Cement board is junk.
maya
I’d say that bathroom is a bit small for a big man. OTOH, he’ll have more wall to break his fall. Better pad those walls.
sloan
@danielx:
Yeah, when we have cheap landlords insist on using greenboard (yes, they really do!) we call them “five year bathrooms”.
Nutella
Here’s a change from giggling at Romney’s idiocy: Boy-rape enabler Graham Spanier, no longer of Penn State, is going back on the public payroll.
Why aren’t people like this shunned?
And why are we the taxpayers paying this miserable SOB to fuck up another public institution?
via LGM
Yutsano
ISP is out. No haz Interewbs. I r cranky.
delosgatos
@Roger Moore:
A sign of couth, even…
delosgatos
@ralph wiggum:
Yeah, I was thinking moisture barrier too – moving fast is good. Running roughshod, not so much. I also clicked over to the comments because I thought “one of the cool things about having a blog is, when you’re doing remodeling you have a whole community of home inspectors. Wonder if anyone mentioned moisture barriers?” And it was the first comment. :)
Joey Maloney
@NotMax: In a Cadillac. “Asshole!”
MomSense
@John Cole
Two more days for us too! Teenage boys are disgusting and I can’t wait to get out of their bathroom!
Soprano2
Does the moisture barrier need to be put over backer board if it’s being used for tile walls in the bathroom that aren’t around the shower? We’re working on our bathroom right now, and we’ve used Hardibacker and cement board on all the walls and the floor in the bathroom because we’re going to tile them. The tub already has cultured marble walls and ceiling.
ericblair
@Soprano2:
The preference is under: tack or staple plastic film (4 mil, I think) on top of the studs before the walls go up. Otherwise you can use one of the coatings that people have mentioned. However, the plastic is cheap and works great. You may have to shim or shave the studs to make any transition between the cementboard/hardibacker and other parts of the wall level. Tile, grout, and cement board are water resistant, but not waterproof.
22over7
The contractors finished up my bathroom remodel yesterday. As soon as I get my butt up off this chair, I’m off to buy a gallon of semi-gloss. Then I’m going to (1) clean up the dust etc. left behind; (2) tape (always takes for frickin’ ever); (3) spackle; (4) paint; (5) install new towel rods and cabinet knobs; (6) squee with delight at my shiny pretty bathroom.
It’s going to be a good day.
Maude
@22over7:
Do you have internets in the bathroom? You might not want to leave it when you are done.
22over7
No, no internets, not even a teevee. Sometimes I like the quiet.