Re: latest non-gun project
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bcw1284</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks for the kind words. I think it looks really great.
I won't lie, i've had some pro help with choosing this layout and then actually doing it. Natural stone tiles are more labor intensive and require alot of things I didn't know about initially, and I have been looking over the pro's shoulder so I can learn this for my own use. I'd never do it professionally, it's just too much work.
I poured the 6" slab under this all alone, including making the concrete by hand, and i'm really proud of how it came out. Concrete work is a real bitch IMHO, but there is something satisfying about knowing you did it all by hand and it came out right.
I'm not done on the old house yet, i'll probably do the upstairs bath in a very similar tile later this year and that one will be all on my own, now that i've been educated on how to do it right.
Fixing up old houses will rapidly teach you how to be electrician, plumber, carpenter, painter, mason, cable guy, exterminator, roofer, and more that you never imagined. </div></div>
I am a carpenter and what i have learned is that you are better off to start at the top and work your way dowu that way the paint/stain or pieces of material that fall won't fall on the new stuff and damage it. And yes unless you are a flat work guy concrete floors are a real bitch.
