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[Kilauea]

That niche came out cherry.Im not skilled enough for all that high tech origami,Ill have to stick to the ole paintbrush.Here's my progress last week.

Monday-bid and gather materials
Tuesday-tearout plastic unit,hang cbu,float floor,build mortared seat(pavers),paint walls
Wed-stack walls ceiling,fabricate bullnose
Thu-tear out carpet,cut jams,snap ink,paint floor,fill in divot,finsh seat,drop shower floor,install bathroom floor
Fri-finish bathroom floor,remove TLS caps,finish curb(pain in da a),grout with permacolor and spectralock mushroom

Quick comment on materials.

Used purple Bonsal waterproofing(very very strong stuff-high VOCs) for walls and aquadefense for the floor.I wouldve prefered Laticrete but I needed to use these up from my shop.

I used Laticrete XLT on the walls and on the floor.I like it so much I bought a pallet.Best non sag,non slump,large format stuff Ive used.The stuff is crazy.You can have like 3'' coming down off you're trowel and it wont drop.You can just swing it back up like jello.I was showin my brother the XLT wave by floppin the lip back in forth on the trowel.

I also used the TLS.When paired up with XLT its just so easy to decrease lippage.Thruout the whole job I only had pull off like 2 pieces,to re-trowel,when usually it'd be like every other one.

[Kilauea]

That isnt the whole pallet,but all the weight I was gonna put inna truck...

[Kilauea]

Last 2 are before and after.

[Dan Kramer]

#1 16,000 lbs. of tile, thinset, and grout.
#2 View of a nice little wave from the wet saw station
#3 Nights in Rodanthe house next door. (Diane Lane, Richard Gere) Probably 75 - 100 cars a day show up and take pics of this place
#4 Tile - bullnosed the 2x2's to match existing trim
#5 Wife - shows up and brings lunch, then shows me how it's done (notice speed blur)

[Brad Denny]

#3. Sickens me that I know what you're talking about. One of those movies thrown in to "balance out" my Netflix list.

Nice lookin' place to work.

[Tiletim]

LT & Dan,

great work as always,

LT - like the Ebbe drain, now that you are up to speed on the TLS how much time do you think it is saving you?

Dan, you got her trained good, she grouts so fast you can't even catch her with the camera - time is money

[ceramictec]

Originally Posted by Dan Kramer

#3 Nights in Rodanthe house next door.

the movie house was in the water, did they move it away ?
looks like a different house.


Edit: looks like they saved it from the wash away beach.

[gueuzeman]

It's all good. hooray., and stuff.

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[Higher Standard Tile]

Looking good LT and Dan.

LT- you get a lot done in one day and make it look good. Must be good training from the old timers in the islands.

Dan- Nice work- and nice wave! But I make it a general rule to avoid Richard Gere movies.

But seeing some houses in the Outerbanks brings back memories. My home is now Maui but I grew up in Virginia. So I spent many a summer in Nags Head and Hatteras. Virginia is a beautiful state but NC has much better beaches.

In fact there is a beach here in on the northwest corner of Maui called Ironwoods that I like to go to because it has some dunes. Reminds me of Hatteras, but with much warmer, bluer water, and less tacky miniature golf places nearby.

Enough rambling. This was my week. A studio condo on the 9th floor of Kaanapali Shores. 500 sqft of floors and 100 lf of base tile. 18" porcelain. Main living area on a 45 with border the rest on a 90.

Laticrete 170 sound membrane installed with 253, tile set with 4xlt and grouted with permacolor.

Monday- Deliver tools- install sound membrane.
Tuesday- Layout. Set 45 degree area in living room.
Wed- Move stuff (appliances and tools) onto living room. Set kitchen and half of hallway and border in lr. Had to leave myself a way to get out.
Thursday- Set hallway and most of bathroom floor and most of base. Go to another job in building to finish up, it ran short of tile by 2 boxes. (GC provided)
Friday- Grout living area with permacolor in morning. Move junk onto it after lunch. Finish setting cut row in bathroom and some base with fastset. Start grouting 2nd phase at 4pm. Finish by 5:30
Monday. Grout area where tile saw was set up. Final cleaning. move tools.

So what could be done in 2-3 days takes a little longer when you are tiling all the floors in the unit and not all the appliances are removed.

[The Kid]

nice floor isaac!

[custombuilt]

great looking work guys.

L.T. that is a great install, what material is that? Looks like travertine? How did you build the bench and float it the same day is my question? I did one last week with blocks but had to let it set up and then float it the next day.

[irish tileguy in michigan]

Really sweet work guys,

[Tiletim]

More progress - walls are stacked - started on the glass and the shelves.

here is a tip - if your using rondec - order the little corners - pita trying to miter them.

also what do you guys use to epoxy your shelves - I made this one yesterday and you couldn't see the joint- I used Loctite HD rated 5 min. epoxy and blended in some marble dust to color match the joint.

I pick it up today and the joint turned grey? what's the secret ?

not my best effort on the bullnose.

[jondon]

Tim nice project, I like the glass in the niche! What is the feature liner going to be. I agree, rondec corner pieces are real nice to have.

Started this splash yesterday, total kitchen redo. Put the floor in last week, then granite came in and now the splash. Its about 70 square feet total. We are using Milstone Jerusalem gold 4X4's and 3X6's, same 2X12 rail and 5/8" mosaics, Questech Aspen Silver Fiddlehead Deco's and Tuscan Liners. They still have stuff to do with the cabinetry, the island will go in later this week and appliances. It will take me all week to do the tile, some of the stone is going to get enhanced.

[Tiletim]

Jon, nice clean work you have there.


I will be using a Chairo liner 5/8" - lighter than the shelves.

not sure if I like the chrome & stone together but we will see.