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25.01.2022 And then there was more. Technical expert is here in his boardies, this means it was only a consultant visit. Not allowed to work in boardies. Shorts no shirt is ok. We were very excited to get the lines straight it warranted a tiling selfie. Lines, lines, everywhere is lines.

25.01.2022 Lounge living room. 3 angles same room. Congrats to the technical expert for persevering with his ideas and having patience in a confined space working with me.

24.01.2022 Before and after of the bedrooms. Special thanks to our favourite flooring bloke for an awesome job and putting up with me on lunch breaks in the courtyard.

24.01.2022 More tiles. Starting to like the look of it all. To the light switch. Below the light switch. To the wall on the other side.

23.01.2022 Cleanup of tile levellers. Yellow wedges come out and can be reused. White toggle separators break off and leave a section under tile. Supposed to be designed to be kicked and the break off. Not so easy in thongs. Easier to sit on floor with pliers and pull on angle to remove. Step grand fur baby giving a hand to check quality control.

22.01.2022 When we’re not tiling and doing bathroom Reno we sometimes play in the garden and do a yard Reno. Photos are a bit deceptive. There are actually 2 garden sheds next to each other, in earlier photo one was missing with slab showing. Ripped out the big clumps of grassy bush and replaced with block surround for vegetable garden. Terracotta pots have my tomato seedlings and hopeful other seeds. Grass was greener and longer and now patchier where I’ve hand dug out sensitive and other weeds. Also may have spots of fluoro pink line marking paint where I’d painted the handles of rakes, shovel, picks etc so I don’t loose them in the dirt. Bush to left of short pole also had a trim to rediscover other plants underneath and rock border etc.

20.01.2022 Bathroom and kitchen. Laundry sink awaiting metal paint inspiration. Possibly gun metal grey hammer tone. Frameless shower screen later.

18.01.2022 Walls done, but that’s never the end. Figured out that it’s best to check the basin first before locking it in Eddy. Then worked out best to grout behind the basin even though we weren’t totally ready for it elsewhere. No grout looks like grey grout. ... With grout WHITE makes the wall look cleaner and almost smooth. See more

18.01.2022 Did I ever tell you about the time we learnt to tile? Ex-tiler family friend came and did a demo and set up a line for us to work on.

18.01.2022 Head gardener doing a quality assurance test on the sprinkler. You’ll notice neighbours garden inspectors vocalising in the background if you have the sound on.

17.01.2022 Apparently we didn’t take any photos of floor tiles in stages. OR we became so efficient that we smashed it all in one day. I doubt it. Yellow and white tags are tile levellers and separators. Handy to ensure the height of the tiles are consistent. We didn’t even know they existed. Still didn’t stop the odd height anomaly.

15.01.2022 We got on a roll and managed big walls in no time.

14.01.2022 Messy floor. Clean floor. No wonder they tell you to do wall before floor tiles. Clean one has a levelling concrete Screed, over it to smooth out any bumps and prepare for floor tiles. What’s that dark thing on the mirror? ... Lambswool of course. Mirror glued on so needed to ensure it had pressure on it so it didn’t slip. Spririt level on stool against lambswool works fine. See more

10.01.2022 Lawn Reno. Lol. Step 1. White tiny flowers all over the lawn in patches. Step 2 Dig our patches of tiny white flower weeds. ... Step 3. Big holes all over the lawn. Step 4. Kick lawn seed in to rejuvenate. Step 5. Grass seed starts to grow. See more

10.01.2022 Technical expert was on glue duty. I was on tile placement. This was of course done in the tropical Queensland summer, shirt optional.

08.01.2022 Other end of long bathroom laundry. Fans a necessity for the sticky Townsville summer.

07.01.2022 Then there were 4 rows. It was then we worked out it was best to continue the line as far as we could around to the window. Which tiles goes first, where does the cut tile look best. When we placed the first tile we already had to calculate where the best small tiles would be. No point starting in the centre or outside edge with a full tile if by the time you came to the door or window you had 10mm gap that is hard to cut and looks untidy. Better to have 30-60mm tiles on the ends and 70 & 40mm on the other end. Using example 100mm tile.

05.01.2022 I guess I should have started with the blank wall and tile choices. Of course we had the man come in to waterproof after builder jake did the walls.

03.01.2022 Shower tap in. Niche tile in. Basin and mirror in. Floor level........mostly. Tile around the bottom edge in ... laundry area instead of skirting. See more

02.01.2022 Then we did a bit. Learnt about premix glue. Wall glue vs floor glue. 6mm grout trowel vs 10mm. Big spirit level became our best friend and a bucket of water and tiling sponge together glue off spirit level. Dark grey wall base is ripple effect waterproofing painted on floor and walls. Small subway tiles were easy to handle for first timers. ... Rookie mistake was not putting spacers in to make consistent gaps. Just because tiler bloke can do it by eye doesn’t mean everyone can. See more