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We Were Fully Tiled and Now We’re Fully Grouted. Hooray!

March 7, 2013

Well my friends, so ends the saga of grouting. And I couldn’t be happier. No more tile. No more grout. In either bathroom. In our kitchen. Nowhere in the house. YAY! The last little bit before we could declare that, was grouting the curb in the bathroom

We decided to use our urethane grout for the curb (the same grout we used for the main floor and shower floor, you can read more about it here). Because you can only work in small areas at a time (it sets up quickly after you get it on the surface) we had to really hustle. Grouting on the curb is already difficult with all the angles, then add in the fun surfaces of beveled subway tile and the quick working time of urethane grout and we were a little nervous about this project. Luckily though, Chris is a champ and I’m a master sponge cleaner 🙂

Chris worked in really small sections to ensure that he was getting the grout into all the grout lines sufficiently and that it all got cleaned up properly. You really have to make sure you clean it all up as soon as you can. Otherwise you have to use some sort of chemical to get the haze off. Also, you want to make sure the sponges aren’t very wet at all because the water and urethane don’t get along well and you’ll have problems if there is too much moisture in the grout. I know, lots of fun, right? But we worked diligently

Our guess was that the endeavor would take about 30 minutes. It ended up taking about 45, but it worked out better than we thought: no cussing, no sponge throwing, no temper tantrums. Success!

And now, we’re ready for the glass enclosure!

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Comments

  1. Bunny @ 86n It says

    March 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM

    It looks really, really beautiful!

  2. meryl rose says

    March 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM

    Thanks Nikki 🙂 And hopefully when the glass gets installed next week it covers that little itty bitty triangle 🙂

  3. Deb says

    March 7, 2013 at 11:40 AM

    Looks fantastic! Great job…

  4. meryl rose says

    March 7, 2013 at 12:22 PM

    Thanks! I'm counting down the hours till I can take a shower in there, eeee 🙂

  5. Sarah @ St. Paul Haus says

    March 7, 2013 at 4:15 PM

    Daaaang! Stunning!

  6. meryl rose says

    March 8, 2013 at 7:17 AM

    Thanks Sarah!

Oh, hello there. We're Chris and Meryl and we're renovating home in Oakland, CA. Chris is the handy, knowledgeable builder and I'm his slightly inappropriate assistant. We've got 2 helpers - Zoe is 2 and Merritt arrived in June of 2015. Spurred by our love of renovating our own home we started a handyman, design and organizing business and now that we're both self employed we're busier than ever, but we love it!

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