Week Five is over, ending before noon, as usual. We started, or I should say, Warren started at around 8 am. The floor was covered with alleyways of nasty particle-board-speckled mastic glue. Nasty. If you scroll down and look at earlier weeks, you can see the ridges formed by the glue.
The process involves brushing a solvent over the stripes of glue gunk, covering with plastic sheeting, waiting for at least a half hour, then scraping the softened mess into trash bags. The fumes were horrible, so I spent the morning out of the house. Warren had a fan going in the window, both windows wide open to ventilate. If you use enough of the solvent and wait long enough, the scraping part is relatively easy. Just smelly.
By the end of the morning, every bit of the glue was gone. The floor is now ready for leveling and attaching concrete board.
Here you can see the cleared floor, the wetness of the glue still apparent. By nightfall, the worst of the smell was already gone.
The next step was measuring from the floor to the top of the hardwood in the bedroom. We want the transition from tile to hardwood to be as even as possible. So we have to add the thickness of the cement backer board, the mastic, and the tile, to be sure. Right now we have NO IDEA how thick the mastic would be so we still aren't sure how thick the backer board will be. That's the "job" for this week.
Next weekend, Ben will be home for a short visit. Whoo! Hoo! He was hoping to help us lay tile. Won't be happening, but now Warren has come up with another idea. They may work together next Saturday morning removing the popcorn ceiling in the bathroom and repainting the ceiling. Sounds like a good plan to me! I'll "supervise."
1 comment:
Cool! I'll help with whatever you guys need! Even it's removing that classy popcorn ceiling...why did contractors ever start using that junk in the first place? Love you and see you Thursday!
Love Ben
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