Change in Plan

In the last episode of the Great Watts Bathroom Remodel - we fell 4 tiles short of finishing the floor of the hallway, entry, and bathroom. This left us, and you our dedicated readers, excited about wall texturing. Well the executive decision maker decided that the blog writer did not know what he was doing and demoted him.

Then forced our intrepid blog writer to become go-fer.

Joyce was looking at the light we saw a Lowes while in Las Cruces a couple of weeks ago and realized that there was a Lowes in wonderful Hobbs NM. Hobbs is an exciting very unscenic 2 hour drive from here. This is where our intrepid former blog writer comes in. Joyce ordered the newly demoted sap to become a go-fer. Go-fer that tile we need let's get this thing done. So off I went - 4 1/2 hours later I return and promptly start working on tiling the rest of the bathroom wall.

Here is the image of the tile. It still needs to be cleaned but it is finished.



Here is a shot of the toilet area. The switch on the wall is for the ventilation fan I installed. It has timer switches so the fan will turn off automatically after time expires.



By the way Nikole grouted this area. She did a great job.

We will put the vanity back into the bathroom soon and it just might stay there. Joyce and I have finally decided how to finish that off. But that is for another show...




I also finished tiling the hallway and replaced a couple of damaged tiles. As well as redo the thinset on a couple that didn't quite get installed correctly.

Here is a shot of the hallway after the grout. The grout is expected to lighten up a bit in a day or so.



Here is the entry... Notice we tiled the closet as well.



Here is a close up of the tile pattern and grout



We have all watched shows on TV where someone is doing tile in some room of their house. They are nice enough to show how to grout - but they never show this actually being done. I now know why - it is not glamorous, it is not fun, and it is messy.



Joyce and I also decided that this was a perfect way to punish our kids...



Just kidding - Nikole foolishly volunteered.

Maybe next time we will show the walls textured and possibly painted.