Day 17

Wow, I can't believe I've been without a kitchen and laundry facilities for this long. I think it's starting to get a little hard, especially the laundry part.

So, I came home from work today to find that Randy had finished setting all the backer board and screwing it in. He learned not to follow the directions on the bag of thin set and used his "gut". The process was much easier for him today than it was on Sunday. He said it took 4 hours to lay the thin set and screw all the boards in. Might I add, that when I got home from work, not only did he have the kitchen stuff done, but he also had mowed the lawns in the front and back and pulled out a dead tree! Wow!

Then we spent the rest of the evening dry laying the tile to decide on a good pattern. Not so easy but it sure looks pretty! We had to shift it around several times and still haven't found the exact right spot. We decided on a diagonal pattern because, well it looks better! But we then ran into problems transitioning from the kitchen to the laundry room and also around the edges. So we still have some modifying to do, but it definitely feels like it's coming together a bit more.

I probably won't update again until I get back from Oregon on Sunday. Randy plans to set the tile this weekend while me and the dogs are gone.