3 Hours, 68 Tiles

After the crappy leak discovery Sunday morning and before we had to leave to build some shelving for a past teacher of mine in his and his wife's garage, Chris and I got some tiling in.

Chris had a good idea of cutting the corners off of one of our sponges to make little triangle sponges that were great for cleaning in the cracks so we don't have to scrape so much later

We continued tiling up the small shower wall


We got up as high as the other wall, so we stopped and waited till we have a lengthwise tile cutting solution.

Once we finished that bit we went to the left. We started with the line of tile on the top of the tub and extended it out the other way towards the wall (using nails to hold up the bottom line like before)

Next time we'll tile down to the bottom and fill that area in, but we wanted to make sure the line from the tub was perfect and level, and measuring from the bottom to the top and starting from the bottom is a quick way to ensure that doesn't happen. So, although this way makes things a little more difficult, we know things will be in line with each other and be straight and level


We were left with a little tiny sliver in the corner...

...but that piece was much too small for the tile cutter to make, so again, we'll have to wait till we have our tile cutting solution worked out.

And now, for the tile stats: 3 hours and 68 tiles is roughly 23 tiles an hour. Pretty good considering we did a decent amount up high so Chris had to stand on the tub while I shuffled around and handed everything to him, and we did the line extending to the wall which involved hammering all the nails in to keep things level. Add 3 to our tiling total and we're at 20 hours.