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03-15-2015, 01:46 PM
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Dude! You're a wizard!
I am blown away at your concrete skills. And only 15 days? What an honor for you to get to do this project.
My hat's off to you sir!
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03-15-2015, 05:54 PM
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So , The 1st day into this project I was informed that the 36 inch diameter bronze medallion , that is the center piece of the memorial may not arrive by the Feb 11th my deadline . ( The HOA / designer handled this piece of the project ) . I called their supplier to verify exact thickness of medallion and to emphasize it has to be exactly 36 inches in diameter as all tile / layout has been based on this most critical dimension. I than had water jet company cut me a exact 36 inch diameter template to use as a guide to set the first band of polished blue mica flaked porcelain. That problem temporary solved. Next I called Laticrete. Informed them of the project and my time restraints on completion. When I told them I had to install tile on fresh / green concrete in 36 hours there was a little bit of silence. The solution was 254 to set Stratamat , Stratamat , than 254 to set porcelain , Permacolor grout and Latisil for my three circular soft joints . Laticrete donated all materials no questions asked and they had it delivered to my local distributer in 48 hours. Only for Henry would I ever put on a fluorescent green t shirt 
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03-15-2015, 08:16 PM
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This is a really interesting thread and I'm glad that you are letting us follow what's going on. 
Nice new Laticrete shirt.
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03-15-2015, 10:02 PM
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Great lookin work, thanks for lettin us follow along!
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03-18-2015, 05:46 AM
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Custom Masonry Contractor
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I installed the blue circular band of tile around the medallion template , stood back and looked at it and realized how will I lower a 110 pound 36 inch diameter circle medallion when my soft joint between medallion and tile is 3/16 ? Luckily I had a rare smart moment and realized the best solution was to take two tile out so medallion could be set safely and than set them back after.
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03-18-2015, 08:04 AM
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Pretty awesome.
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03-18-2015, 06:40 PM
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Nice work!!!
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03-18-2015, 07:54 PM
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Nice work. I like doing waterjet jobs...its tile by numbers!
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03-19-2015, 05:36 AM
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Custom Masonry Contractor
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Medallion arrives 3 days before deadline. Installed medallion, set the two missing blue tile and black siliconed my 3 circular band soft joints. Landscape crew did their install the day before the memorial event .
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03-19-2015, 05:52 AM
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Medallion
Very Nice Jim!!! You should be proud. Thanks for sharing from the beginning to the end. Hopefully you will receive a lot of leads with this project. Thanks again for your work.
John Cox
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03-19-2015, 06:10 AM
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Custom Masonry Contractor
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I have one final set of pics to post but have to get to work.
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03-19-2015, 08:02 AM
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Nice work !
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03-19-2015, 11:15 AM
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Good work, Jim. I'd love to do a job like that some time.
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03-19-2015, 04:22 PM
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That is fantastic.
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03-20-2015, 05:20 AM
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looks really good. Thanks for letting us watch.
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