Tile Step 2... The end

Finally... all of the tile is cut and glued on. It only took 3 days. It says to wait 24 hours before grouting so we'll do it tomorrow.

A note about thin-set adhesive. This stuff is kinda smelly. It looks like a huge bucket of spackle. Its pretty smooth but doesn't dry brittle like spackle or joint compound. Its got more give like glue. The 3.5 gallon bucket said we'll only need one bucket to cover the size floor that we have. Uh... it took 3 buckets for 2 layers... one under the backerboard, one under the tile. Hmm...

A thought always comes to mind. Are we doing this right?

Our friends came over the other day to drop off boxes. They like what we've done so far. He told me later that the financee said it looks professional. And they've come to the realization that if they ever want to tile their kitchen floor, they don't want to do it themselves and would rather pay someone than to mess it up if they did it themselves. =) Its not that hard. Yet time consuming.