Subway Tile Ready for Grout

by Peter Bales | 30th April 2009

After another day of laying the tile surround for my bathroom project in Inglewood I’m finally ready to grout. I started today by removing the straight edge supports from the second row that I tiled yesterday. This supported the tile and kept them level until the morter could set up. This is a second story [...] Read More

Subway Tile Surround Day 1

by Peter Bales | 29th April 2009

I’m getting to some fun stuff now at my bathroom renovation in Inglewood. After lots of preparations I started installing the subway tile for the shower surround. It always amazes me how long this takes! You just can’t rush things or it will look rushed when you’re finished. The most important part of this, of [...] Read More

Prepping for Tile Surround

by Peter Bales | 28th April 2009

My bathroom project is taking shape. I got the drywall sanded and even did some painting today. Tomorrow I’m planning to tile, so I also did some prepwork for that. Tile needs a very solid surface to support it to keep it from moving and forming cracks in the grout. For a bath surround, some [...] Read More

Fantastic Fireplace Facelift

by Peter Bales | 31st March 2009

Everyone loves before and after stories, so I thought I show some pics of the fireplace at our East Nashville project. We started with the common story- broken & cracked tile, overpainted mantle and bland. When we were done it was one of my favorite parts of the house, even though the fireplace wasn’t functional. [...] Read More

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