Having worked all weekend
relocating the door and finishing the
prep of the walls and floors for tiles, the bathroom was ready for Sean (our tiler) when he walked in on Monday morning.
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| Morning of Feb 27th - the wood batten is set for holding the tiles above. |
Similar to how he started the shower, Sean set a wooden batten at the base of the 2nd row on the wall in order to hold the tiles. By locating and leveling the batten perfectly, it provides a stable and accurate foundation for the walls, and later, once the tiles are set, and the floor is tiled, he can go in and tile the gap precisely. This is one of those great tricks one can learn watching a professional -- if it was not done this way, I can now see that there could be inaccuracies that would be visible. Setting such large tiles is an extremely unforgiving task...I'm now really thankful that "Aglaya"
talked me out of doing the tiling myself!
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| Late morning - most of the wall is finished. |
After Sean finished the shower, it was amazing to see how fast he could work with just straight walls and full tiles - in just a few hours he had finished one of the walls and had started the other. These walls are all in limestone - which is a beautiful but soft stone - and they are intended to provide a more neutral background against the bold color of the slate.
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| Turning the corner onto the final wall. You can see the red line of the laser level on the left side |
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| By 1pm Sean had completed half of the final wall. |
While Sean was working on the walls, I was resetting the loo's push-button flusher - it's wall mounted and had to be properly fixed to the wall before the tiles go over it. This was the last thing I did before heading to the airport...now it's up to "Aglaya" to finish overseeing Sean's work!
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| The mostly completed shower (with the laser level mounted on a pole) |
