Tile Step 2

All the spacers are in now. All that's next is the adhesive. Glue, notch, placement, leveling. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it. Spreading the glue around is okay, but you always wonder, 'Did I put enough?' Notching is easy until the trowel gets too much goo in the notches and scrapes off too much adhesive so we always have to keep it clear. Placement isn't too bad. I put one edge on and put the spacers then lay it down and put the rest of the spacers in. Sometimes pressing it in and wiggling pushes the tile down too far. So I just softly play it down and use the 2"x4" and mallet to level everything and to squish it into place. And that wouldn't be too hard if all the tiles were exactly the same. But no... they have to be slightly bigger and make the corners not even. It takes some finessing into a good place.

We're done with maybe 1/4th of the floor. We've got all of our stuff on the kitchen counter... microwave, toaster oven, rice cooker, tools, buckets, fan. No room for anything. We really need our floor space back. Hopefully we'll grout by Monday.