Shower Tile

The floor tiles are all installed in the bath and shower, but are now covered with building paper to protect them from paint and mortar as the ceiling is painted and the glass tiles are installed on the shower walls. Since the shower floor is sloped to the drain, the lowest row of tiles has to be tapered to match this slope. This has proven to be a considerable task: the saw blade for the glass tiles is not perfectly round (nor is its replacement) but the marketing organization suggested that we place the tiles on a spongy foam base so that the tile can vibrate with the blade!This works, but requires that the tiles are fed very slowly into the diamond saw blade. Cutting one row of tiles, even for a very small bathroom, took one person all day! Eli mortared in one section of shower wall, as you can see from the photo. Sadly the lustrous sea green color does not show, but here is the color - Naxos - in a different design. Once we get the floor and walls grouted I’ll try to get a photo with better color rendition.

The living room has been completely painted, as has the mud room (same color). I painted the corners of the bed and study, and I (and the color designer) think the color is right. Those two rooms and the bath will likely get paint tomorrow. Because paint dries so rapidly here we can easily do two coats in one day.

The plumbers installed the ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) part way today. They didn’t have enough duct parts to do the full job. I have not heard from the sheet metal man about the furnace or the little remaining ductwork for the furnace.We have running water in the utility sink. (They did not want to turn on the water on a Friday afternoon and have the risk of a problem with no one in the house over the weekend.) It is very helpful to wash our paint brushes in a sink.

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