Preppers delight -2

A little GFRC pre cast slab and trap door, 8000# strength or better.

A bit of matching caulk around the trap door and it's done

 

That is freaking awesome!!

 

So what is the purpose of that? It looks very cool and creative.

 

So what is the purpose of that?

Access to the tunnel that plumbing and electric was run through for a new island cabinet. HO opted not to fill it back in.

 

This is a bathroom I did before thinking about getting into the business. This bathroom was only my 3rd tile job I ever did. I did my kitchen floor 20x20 tile and 6x6 backsplash in my kitchen as well. You can see the before and after results.

Let me know what you all think. Also, first time ever doing crown molding as well.

 

Glass was installed today. Also had to touch up some grout on the floor. In some spots the epoxy shrank/sagged into the joint?? Sucked buying another bucket for it but I didn't feel right about using color matched caulk. Not sure what happened.

 

Bella Cera Genova 1/2 engineered

3 Rooms and some stairs

 

Where's the tile? Did i read the tread title wrong. Darn old age, I'm losing it.

 

Does it work if I demoed the tile before install?

 

Nice work on those steps. How much time did you have in it?

 

Everything took 3 days 1 day on stairs, 2 on floors. With a homemade jig it makes stairs a breeze

 

Yeah, I've done a few

 

Outside of the cracked stack this one went pretty well.

 

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Looks like a box was a bit more gray than the others.

I had that happen once on similar tile. I didn't notice until I took some pics.

 

 

 

Good looking work Rob.

 

You're an hour ahead of me. You need to go to bed. But thanks! It was a quick turn around for a sale. We did it on a shoe string budget.

 

You're an hour behind. You need to go to bed. :laughing:

 

Nick, I had a similar issue with color variation on a backsplash. I believe the whole job required about five boxes. I just mixed up the boxes so the lighter tiles were spread out over the whole job as opposed to just all in one place.

 

That's what I wanted to do. Like you said, the customers always right. I layed out everything and she moved tiles where she wanted them.

 

I won't do exterior niches

 

I really think, I don't care what you tell the customer, if it fails it will be your fault for installing it.

I don't think I've ever met a customer who openly accepts the blame.

Just like when the HO hires a hack to do the work rather than a highly qualified contractor whose bid was much, much higher. They never blame themselves. They blame the hack.

Imagine if people shopped around for doctors like they do contractors. HO needs his appendix out. One doctor at a highly respected hospital wants $65,000.00 to perform the surgery. But, a guy the HO works with, knows a guy who tinkers on weekends who will do it for $300.00. It has to be cash though.

 

I'm not entirely sure I can agree with that Jon. It's not the installation that failed, someone else damaged it (siding crew).

However, because of the obvious significant chance that could happen one day, I do agree with Rob that putting it in writing would be good.

 

My head just gets filled with what if's. What if the customer sells the home and raves about you and your work. The new owner has some exterior work done and boom, they blast a nail through the niche.

The other issue is you really can't cover all circumstances in a contract. When the one circumstance arises that you didn't cover you will get the blame even though other circumstance you did cover came close to the one that happened.

I think Jon's point was that it's human nature to want to wiggle out of the blame. If their siding contractor does blast through the niche, even though everyone was told, the siding contractor won't take the blame and the customer is going to be hard pressed to come back to you and say, here's a few thousand dollars to fix this.

I would rather live knowing the niches would never be affected by weather or "unforeseen" circumstances. I would rather never get that call, or better yet, have to worry about getting that call.

I just don't see an upside to putting them on the exterior. There is two to three other options. I have actually started placing them on the knee wall or under the shower head. Looks nicer to me. When you look into the shower you don't see bottles of soaps and personal products. :thumbsup:

 

I just don't think installing then like they were was in-line with the best building practices.

(Not a knock at you in any way Nick)

Before I recessed them into the wall, I probably would've built the wall out to make room for the recess, or tried to come up with a new idea all together. Just something other that placing the back of the niche so closer to the exterior sheathing.

Again, Nick, not knocking you at all. This is how we all learn. It's impossible to have to deal with every situation first hand. But, because of this site, I feel better prepared to deal with many thanx to discussions like this about the pros & cons.

 

I fully agree with everything everyone's saying. I did as much as could possibly do to insulate it. It's an old house so the framing was true 2x4's, I also packed the wall out another 1/2" or so when straightening the walls out. So there's 1 1/2" of spray foam behind it and sprayed all around it. I would have much rather seen it in the middle wall.

 

I appreciate all the criticism and suggestions. I come to this site to learn as much as I possibly can.

 

This is the tile project I'm working on.

Thought I would start with a nice pre-slope...

Then install my .........drain type thing.

 

This is the tile project I'm working on.



Thought I would start with a nice pre-slope...



Then install my .........drain type thing.

Your post made me remember to take a picture to share of a job we just got started on.

This was demo'd before we showed up for framing. Mud floor and wall shower. It had leaked at some point.

Someone had torn out the floor, leaving the walls, cut out some of the rotten subfloor, and then put in a new piece of 1/2" ply and used the metal strapping to support the edges where it didn't land on joists.

 

I don't get a chance to tile much, but I just finished this one today. I spent 2 days getting the tile down and grouted it today. I am not the fastest, but I think it looks pretty good.

 

That's nice Travis...just Kerdi right over that..lol.

 

Not a bad idea... It's a laundry room now though. It will either get sheet vinyl or tile. Client isn't sure yet.

 

Another.....subway shower.

(Based on the type of houses I do, and people's love for the white subway tile, I do an awful lot of these....
They seem to take forever though. All those border tiles.....all those tiles...period)

Pre-grout. Two colors coming. Grey floor and niche...white all the rest.

(I think this may be my favorite niche of all time....something about the size/scale......IDK...I just like it)

 

White subway is in. I do another backsplash next week with it.