Well, this morning I showed up to tile a small powder room for a customer and thought I was going to have to post my own job to the worst tile job thread. When I stopped earlier in the week she told me that She had been given some marble tiles she wanted to use (insisted on). The problem, she was short one tile of having enough to do the job and even then I would not have enough for broken or mis-cuts. She headed to one of our not-so-local suppliers and reported back that she had found a "match" and would have the tiles when I got there. So here is what she had...
Three different tiles, two were 18" marble, 7 of one and three of another, and then a 17" ceramic marble "looking" tile.
She said, "Just put them in there!"
I headed over for supplies, Hardi, and mortar with the tiles to try to pick a grout to match this unbelievable tile floor. You should have seen my supplier's face when I showed her what the lady picked out..."You can't do that..." she said!
Well, after a few minutes of head scratching and her offering me her sample rack so that I could pick something that matched we came up with a solution that, at the end of the day, is not too bad.
(If someone moves it over to the worst tile job thread don't tell me, maybe I'll miss it
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I broke the ceramic into 4 pieces and used them as 8 1/3" pieces. Used up everything she gave me to make this pattern and 11 hours later I'm packing up and headed home, Longggg Friday!
