I'm starting the with AFTER -- ooohhhh.... ahhhhhh.....
The tiles in our main bathroom turned 20 years old this year, so t'was time...
... specially since the edges have been warped and coming undone for quite some time now.
The original tiles were simply peel-n-stick that yours-truly laid back when we built the house in 2003/04, so pulling them up wasn't too terrible. But the DIRT accumulated...
The original tiles were simply peel-n-stick that yours-truly laid back when we built the house in 2003/04, so pulling them up wasn't too terrible. But the DIRT accumulated...
Step 1 -- sand the subflooring, and fix/prep any areas of concern
Step 2 -- determine layout placement.
And lemme tell ya, my type-A kicked in and I was struggling a wee bit here. There were three tile patterns that were plentiful in the box and then a couple of stragglers of only a tile or two...
and although the pattern should work nicely no matter which tiles were next to each other... UGH! LOL... I was struggling a bit here when determining which tile to put next to each other.
And lemme tell ya, my type-A kicked in and I was struggling a wee bit here. There were three tile patterns that were plentiful in the box and then a couple of stragglers of only a tile or two...
and although the pattern should work nicely no matter which tiles were next to each other... UGH! LOL... I was struggling a bit here when determining which tile to put next to each other.
The bathroom isn't super large, and a package of 45 12"x12" tiles sufficed, so the cost was truly reasonable with the tile selected! ... and #funfact to note - I was JIPPED two tiles! There were only 43 in the box! I know this now, after being in the middle of the project. Good thing I only ended up needing 42...whew.
Much of the layout was fairly easy-breezy when it came to trimming of room/wall edges.
The toilet was the last area to be tackled, which ended up not being too bad once I realized that due to the thickness of the vinyl tile selected, they were decently (ie: somewhat easily) cut with SCISSORS!
Some brown crafting paper was cut to rough size, traced on tiles, and I allowed plenty of extra tile on the initial cut for any fine-tuning and whittling down as necessary.
The last little section was placed just over six hours after starting the project.
No base trim was removed; all of the tiles tucked in nicely underneath due to the thickness of the original tile.
in the end, one full tile and bits-n-pieced were left
(I woulda had three full tiles left had we actually received a full box).
And the result: a BRIGHTER, new bathroom floor...
next up... we all think the walls need repainting now to match the floor.
Stay tuned on that decision... LOL.
Stay tuned on that decision... LOL.
Happy Thursday morning!
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