Monday 13 July 2015

Finished the en-suite

Well, almost.  It's a lot more finished than it was 5 years ago when we started using it, needing just the skirting.
Put the half-floor tiles on the wall, as a skirting.  This would have been easier if the guy that had installed the log burner hadn't damaged a lot of them.
Let me explain.  The so-called professional that installed the log burner decided that it had to be fitted on ceramic tiles (it didn't if he'd read the manual)  Unfortunately, he also botched the flue, so needed around 5cm of tiles to jack the fire up.  The only box of tiles were the ones left for the en-suite skirting.  By rocking and scraping the fire side to side while he 'installed' the fire and tiles, he scratched around 20 of the 25 tiles.  Luckily, there are lots of blind spots in an en-suite, so the damage isn't readily obvious on the tiles, but it just took much longer to sort, move and cut damaged tiles.
I needed some caulk, around 4m.  Ended up mixing about 50g of flour with the same volume of PVA and a drop of water, then put it in an old skeleton gun tube.  We'll see how it lasts once painted, but I've yet to find a caulk that doesn't crack after a few years.
Now to paint the tile edge to match the wall.

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