Sautin
08-04-2006, 10:18 AM
Well first let me explain something, I was the guy that was going to go over a make a bunch of money working for Haliburton. While in Texas 2 days before I would get my flight and fly over to Iraq, I decided that It was too much for me, my family and my kids. So I went in First thing in the morning and told them I wanted a ticket home. It was much harder to go over there when you have a choice.
So anyway, I am home and the Wife and I are starting to get back to our ever so slow remodel of our 1964 built double brick home. The room in Question is the addition that the previous owner built but that was all, A floor(In 4 Seperate slabs mind you), walls and a roof. I replaced the Windows already with some low-e double panes(wish I would have gone triple but what do you do). So now it was on to the floor, the tile we got for the floor was this nice 18" porcelain tile imported from Italy, my wife liked it because the bullnose on the edge has a highly reflective brown glaze that shines like silver when you catch it in the light. We went with a lighter color 20" porcelain tile for the rug in the middle of the floor. So my little bro' and I went to work this last weekend putting the tile down, boy was that time consuming, I had already tiled my bathroom and my kitched backsplash, but htis flor and it's 4 slabs at different heights used more thinset that I had and I had 6 bags, had to run to the home depot and get 2 more by the end of the day. But alas the effort paid off.
So I took some before and after pictures of the job, all the tiles were cut with a scratch and pop and although I am not a professional, I think it turned out rather well. Mind you some of the tile had as much as 1 1/4 " of thinset under it to make it level. So tell me what you think.
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m290/Sautin/Addition%20Remodel%20-%20Floor/
So what do you think?
So anyway, I am home and the Wife and I are starting to get back to our ever so slow remodel of our 1964 built double brick home. The room in Question is the addition that the previous owner built but that was all, A floor(In 4 Seperate slabs mind you), walls and a roof. I replaced the Windows already with some low-e double panes(wish I would have gone triple but what do you do). So now it was on to the floor, the tile we got for the floor was this nice 18" porcelain tile imported from Italy, my wife liked it because the bullnose on the edge has a highly reflective brown glaze that shines like silver when you catch it in the light. We went with a lighter color 20" porcelain tile for the rug in the middle of the floor. So my little bro' and I went to work this last weekend putting the tile down, boy was that time consuming, I had already tiled my bathroom and my kitched backsplash, but htis flor and it's 4 slabs at different heights used more thinset that I had and I had 6 bags, had to run to the home depot and get 2 more by the end of the day. But alas the effort paid off.
So I took some before and after pictures of the job, all the tiles were cut with a scratch and pop and although I am not a professional, I think it turned out rather well. Mind you some of the tile had as much as 1 1/4 " of thinset under it to make it level. So tell me what you think.
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m290/Sautin/Addition%20Remodel%20-%20Floor/
So what do you think?