Tag: bathtubs

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: In which that took a year

On By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy7 Comments

IMG_2065Okay, the habit my wife and I share of taking forever to get shit done because we like to make sure we know exactly what we’re doing before we get into stuff and also we’re lazy and work six days a week has caused this project to take so, so, so much longer than it should, but you can’t really argue with results, can ya?  Sooner or later the grout will cure and then we can actually goddamn shower in there again!

And soon winter break will roll around and we can destroy the rest of the bathroom and start this all over again.

So psyched.

Terrible Decisions: Redrum edition

On By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy, Photography4 Comments

…and here’s what’s happening today.  This is after one coat of RedGard; there will be at least one more today and quite possibly two, depending on how well the second coat covers.  You’re not supposed to be able to see the letters on the cement board anymore and obviously the first coat didn’t manage that.

(The pictures are really blurry.  Don’t know why.)

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It was determined that this was to be my wife’s job, as I have never been good at painting in any context, and painting with something that had been described as “runny mayonnaise” did not seem like optimal conditions.  (For whatever it’s worth, the texture is more like pudding– less gloppy than mayo– and Bek says it’s been applying just like paint, only heavier.  She’s not been having any problems.)

Next step is tile, although technically once the RedGard is on the shower is fully usable.  God please don’t let me fuck up the tile.  That should be next weekend.