I spent most of today working on the rental property. It is rediculous now that I pay $500 a month and make no money on it. It is making us so poor. Just imagine paying your rent or mortgage and then pay an extra $500. That was our spending money. I really need to find some good tenants or sell it.
I am just to busy to find tenants that don't suck and everything needed work. Luckily, I think we are really done with the top apartment.
We spent all day collecting an throwing out trash from the apartments and then cutting the bushes and the lawn. It sucks enough having so much of our own work. Having an additional house loads of work sucks even more.
I never did tile before but it wasn't that bad. You might remember us buying the tile cutter
(e:paul,45228) and cutting the tiles.
Then when
(e:lilho) was here, she and I glued on the tiles that
(e:terry) finished cutting. Then today it was time to do the grout.
Here they are all glued on
Then I mixed the grout. The box called for 3 pints of water with 10 pounds of grout mix. I didn't need that much grout so I only mixed 1/3 the bag with a pint of water. At first it didn't seem like enough liquid but after a bunch of mixing it came out the perfect consistency.
Then you apply the grout using a tool called a grout float. Basically you just scoop a bunch on and then swipe the grout float on an angle to smooth it off.
Here it is all applied on one part of the counter before the final cleanup which I am still waiting on as it has to harden for a while first and I wanted to come home and eat dinner.
Thanks matthew!
it looks even better than the photo let's on.
I love how the tiling looks!!
And ouch - about the fork in the blender! Someone I know did that, the blender malfunctioned and he ended up with smoothie all over his kitchen ceiling and floor.