Ceramic Tiling - Step 1 at 6:24 PM

Well, today Karen and I decided to make a move on our bathroom floors. We had vinyl tile in the these rooms but with the water from the tub and shower over the past two years, they are popping up everywhere. They looked horrible. So, we decided to go with ceramic.

Yesterday we found the best price for black ceramic tile to be at a place called "The Rug Shop" here in Greenville. We chose a desing from the brand "Armstrong" called "Suede" and the color was black. So, this morning I went in and paid for the tile. Its supposed to be here Tuesday.

So, I came back home and went ahead and removed all the show molding, vinyl tiling, as well as the lanolium flooring underneath, all the way to the subflooring (which to my surprise and benefit was backer board). Since there was already backerboard down, I'm good to go for tiling. That's a huge step out of the way.

So, Karen and I then decided to go over to Home Depot where we bought the remaining supplies to lay the tile (luckily we had a $50 gift card). We had to get thinset (the glue for the tile basically - the mud/mortar), grout, tile spacers, trowel, grout float, grout sealer, a couple of buckets to mix in and of course a wet saw. We are "ready for take-off." Just waiting for the tile and we'll have this stuff down in no time.

As of now, while waiting for the tile to come in, we have backer-board floors. Kind of funny looking but sad to say... it looks better than our vinyl tile did popping up all over the place.