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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Tiling our basement

If anyone who reads this does not already know, Krystal and I are tiling our basement. This was kind of unplanned. Yes, we are accidentally tiling our basement. Our friend Nick donated his desk to me, and I figured while I had my desk out of the office anyway, it would be a good time to fix some drywall in that room and paint everything. While we had everything out of the room, we noticed that the carpet was in worse condition than we thought it was, so I looked in the ads to see if anyone had some reasonable tile on sale, thinking we could just do that room for now. We have a lot of linoleum down there also that looked nasty, but we would have to do that when funding was available. There was actually some tile in the Lowes ad for 58 cents a tile. We decided to go pick it up, and for that price decided we could replace the linoleum also. We got there and it was actually marked down to 51 cents per tile. Yippee! A couple weeks later we decided if we could still get more we would do another room that has nasty carpet. Well we could not get any more, but the tile was now cleared out at 17 cents a tile, and we got a price match!!! :) If you are still reading this I am impressed. Tiling has taken a lot longer than I had expected, but it is looking good. I am pleased. I will try to update more, I just have not done much recently besides flooring and spending money on flooring products.

7 Comments:

  • That sounds like fun. Then again just about anything beats cutting holes in plaster walls and running cat6 and RG6...

    By Anonymous Matt Fiddelke, at January 30, 2007 8:53 AM  

  • apparently you have never laid tile. :)

    By Blogger Rodd, at January 30, 2007 9:37 AM  

  • apparently you have never used a rotozip on plaster walls and covered your entire house in a fine white powder

    By Anonymous Matt Fiddelke, at January 30, 2007 12:34 PM  

  • Actually I have, just recently in fact. It is a great way to cut outlet holes in drywall. I would have to say between sawing tiles, mixing mortar/grout, and cleaning up grout haze, tiling is far more dusty. And pulling up possible asbestos linoleum and scraping probable lead based paint is not my idea of fun either.

    By Blogger Rodd, at January 30, 2007 12:50 PM  

  • Hey, that was drywall, NOT 55 year old plaster. I'd have to say it's probably a bit more dusty. And to prove your point that tiling is STILL more dusty, you should come to my house and lay some. Just to prove your point of course.

    By Anonymous Matt Fiddelke, at January 30, 2007 4:11 PM  

  • "I'd have to say..." that you've both made messes. Wait till one of you does some serious remodeling. Then you'll know a waste-deep mess.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 02, 2007 12:50 PM  

  • Thanks anonymous, quite insightful.

    By Blogger Rodd, at February 02, 2007 2:04 PM  

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