The Tile Instalation Bane - The Threshold

This was almost my undoing the other day.

I had quickly thrown together two thresholds similar to these ones when I installed the tile a while back. I took the guys down to mine and told them to make the other thresholds like these. Just use the scraps and vary the design of squares and rectangles - thin, thick, big, small, etc. Just try to go off what I've already done.

I walked away thinking, no problem. These guys got it. OH, WAS I WRONG! (My back is starting to tense just thinking of it.) These guys tried three times to get it and were so far off from what I wanted, I almost freaked. (Shelley would probably say I did freak out.) Ok, I did. "I Still need to LET IT GO - Jeremiah!" I even drew sketches for them!?#$@

SHELLEY TO THE RESCUE.
Shelley so lovingly let me know that I was just quite possibly a little bit anal, and my expectations of these guys was significantly off the mark. I love her. She was so right.

In the end, Shelley worked with them and layed out the design for them to install. And I might add - She did it way better than I did on mine.

SHELLEY ROCKS!!!

Floor Tile

Since I cannot do anything right now with the state of my back, we're having some workers lay the tile for us.

Finaly

Well finaly were gona upload another photo of the construction.

This is some of the first landscaping I put in... other than the almost free palm trees we got.

Starting the finish work

Texturing the surface. First they put a coat over the foam, then they add a second finish coat.



The wall is getting about 3/8 to 1/2 inch of cement/sand mixture for the texture surface.



In stead of putting boxes in the walls, we're gluing these plates to the blocks... cost cutting measures that you can do here in Mexico. The metal or plastic boxes you see in wood frame construction are not going to help prevent the block wall from burning down... Oh yea, cement doesn't burn.