tile is heavy

[mopinko]

ceramic tile, stone, etc. very heavy.
i will post more later.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. If you're talking about hauling it into the house, you're right .... if ..

.... you're talking about it on a wall while installing it, make damned sure it is supported from the bottom until the mortar sets.

[mopinko]

3. learned that one the hard way.

did several floors before i did a wall. came as a shock.

[Warpy]

6. The tile store didn't give me the spacers

so I was cutting a helluva lot of cardboard shims.

They worked OK. It's uneven, but I was careful enough with the tile color and grout selection that it looks fine unless you look too closely.

[unhappycamper]

2. It certainly is.

This chunk of granite weighs about 300 pounds.

[wildeyed]

4. yep.

It's heavy when you take it out, heavy when you put it back in.

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, ceramic floor tiles

and doing a surround for a woodstove.

Uh-huh, been there, done that, got the stained shirt and the backache.

[mopinko]

7. i love tile. love tile. and stone. slate, marble....

ok, i got shot out of bed this morning, so i have a few minutes to post before i walk the dogs and fire up the wet saw.
i have an old 2-flat that is being down converted into single family. we have been using it that way for several years, but we just punched a big, unfinished hole in the wall between the first floor, and the stairway up to the second floor apartment. it was ugly, it was in everyone's face, everyone was confused about which of the 2 doors was the real door.
so, i finally got to rip all that out and make a nice foyer.

i have replaced the 2 doors to the separate apartments with a nice double door. here is the door i really wanted. my wallet is glad it was a 6-8 week delivery time.

i couldn't find a good pic of the ones i bought, but on this , it is the one on the brochure. mine has simple beveled glass, no curly things.

got 2 in a single frame.
i have a 8 x 8 space to floor. my tile addiction will not allow me to just slap down a coupla boxes of 12" x 12" and be done with it like a normal person. i will spend a day and a half cutting nice big pieces of travertine, slate, and some really awesome dark red marble into little triangles and who knows what else. along with little bits and pieces from my hoard of little bits of stuff, after a ridiculous amount of time, you will be greeted by a big sunburst, like the one in front of my basement fireplace, and the one on my pullout shelf under the microwave, where you can park your hot dishes.
i try to do everything so that it is handicap accessible. the big double door will help. i have a great bathroom that has a floor drain, a wide door and a hand held shower, so you could just wheel in there in your chair, and take a shower sitting down. no, i am not planning to leave this house, ever. but, i think i am gonna be like jefferson, remodeling till i drop dead.

[politicat]

8. If you could, would you mind posting about your bath?

My grandmother and I realized that the bathroom in the big house at home HAS to be remodeled -- Grandpa's not there anymore, but the bathroom is in terrible shape - mold and mildew, the floor is warped, the shower surround is a host to anything that wants to crawl...

So we're thinking tile. We don't really have room to put a tub back in, and on the off chance that we ever have people with mobility issues in the house again, it makes sense to just tile the whole room and make it all water-safe. We won't be moving any of the major fixtures, though I'll have to uproot the toilet and change the vanity out, and deconstruct the shower from hell; but everything will use the same drains.

I'd like some ideas so I can get her on-board and more importantly, get the family trust to pay for it. It HAS to be done; it's a hazard as it is.

[mopinko]

9. soon as i get a chance. nt

[NMDemDist2]

10. sloping the floor is the key and my neighbor (the contractor) suggests

putting a rubber barrier under the tile "just in case"

it's hard to get it all to drain with no standing puddles

our shower is handicapped assessable other than the 3" lip on the door. if we ever need it it could be easily ramped or removed. we were thinking the same way for the long term

[mopinko]

11. ok, let's see.

well, the nickname of this room is the pyramid. that is because my very witty good friend did a lot of the work. it was one of those jobs that grew and grew. he was expecting a simple wreck and redo on an 8 x 8 bathroom. he started ending his lunch breaks with, "well, back to the pyramid" before it was even wrecked out.
although it will be very useful for me someday, right now it is very useful for cleaning bird cages, and washing big dogs. we had fabricated a stainless steel trench drain that runs the length of the room. since it is an old house with a sag in the middle, that was all the pitch we needed. we put in 7/8 outdoor plywood for the floor, with cement board, and used cement board on the walls. tile goes all the way up. the hardest thing to seal was the toilet, which we ended up caulking about 8 ways to sunday. i have a stacked washer dryer pair in there, which we set up on a little platform, made from a scrap of that plywood. there is one of those rectangular porcelain farmhouse sinks in the corner set up on a tiled cement block base.
at the inner edge of that sink is a shower unit with a long hose. it reaches easily over to the toilet, and any big scuzzy things can get hosed off in there. there is room for a wheelchair, or whatever. the whole room is pretty easily hosed off. you can take a shower shower in there, but we don't have any bathroom competition, and there is another full bath that is the one that gets used.
we replaced the original door with a 36" one.
we also did a greenhouse window, which is always fun. we started out with an expensive porcher toilet, which i hated, and actually killed. got a plain ole elger now.
the lights are those "explosion proof" barn lights, galvanized things with a bullet shaped screw on glass cover.