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adventures in grout!
Sep. 22nd, 2004 11:29 amOn Sunday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ricevermicelli and I spent a few hours laying out and cutting tile for the island in our kitchen, then we troweled on tile adhesive (NB: we're using the same stuff for both (it's called "Tile adhesive and grout".), I'm calling it "adhesive" or "grout" to distinguish where we are in the process) and squished the tiles into it. The adhesive claimed that 15 minutes to 3 hours later we'd be able to grout, so we figured that giving it 24 hours to dry would be plenty. We'd done this before and it took a few days, but that was the week in August that didn't so much rain, as deluge, so we figured that that was atypical.
Monday night we got home, both of us having fudged our schedules some to allow us to do this (as the kitchen is all but unusable until we're done), and as we're scraping away the excess adhesive prior to applying grout, we notice that some of the tiles are moving. The adhesive is not dry. In fact it's the consistency of silly putty.
It took some effort, but we managed to see the bright side: we could even out some of the high points. Squishing a high point down not only lowers that point, it also raises the area around it. Plus we got to do some of the related cleanup on Monday without having to do everything that night. In fact breaking it up into two nights would be nice if we had another kitchen we could use in the meantime. We ordered pizza to raise troop morale...
Tonight we get to try again. If you have ideas, suggestions, or advice to offer, please do so. We get to do this one more time (and it's the big one), so even if it's a "Next time..." go for it. Wish us luck. Thanks.
ricevermicelli and I spent a few hours laying out and cutting tile for the island in our kitchen, then we troweled on tile adhesive (NB: we're using the same stuff for both (it's called "Tile adhesive and grout".), I'm calling it "adhesive" or "grout" to distinguish where we are in the process) and squished the tiles into it. The adhesive claimed that 15 minutes to 3 hours later we'd be able to grout, so we figured that giving it 24 hours to dry would be plenty. We'd done this before and it took a few days, but that was the week in August that didn't so much rain, as deluge, so we figured that that was atypical.Monday night we got home, both of us having fudged our schedules some to allow us to do this (as the kitchen is all but unusable until we're done), and as we're scraping away the excess adhesive prior to applying grout, we notice that some of the tiles are moving. The adhesive is not dry. In fact it's the consistency of silly putty.
It took some effort, but we managed to see the bright side: we could even out some of the high points. Squishing a high point down not only lowers that point, it also raises the area around it. Plus we got to do some of the related cleanup on Monday without having to do everything that night. In fact breaking it up into two nights would be nice if we had another kitchen we could use in the meantime. We ordered pizza to raise troop morale...
Tonight we get to try again. If you have ideas, suggestions, or advice to offer, please do so. We get to do this one more time (and it's the big one), so even if it's a "Next time..." go for it. Wish us luck. Thanks.
