Ah, stone - beautiful 18-inch square tiles of natural stone. Simple, elegant, understated. Only one problem: we don't want square tiles on our walls. We want 9" x 18" tiles.
So all those big, beautiful tiles must be sliced in half.
We setup the tile saw and tried a test cut. It didn't look good. It was not straight and one of the edges was very rough. A trip to the Home Depot was in our near future. A new blade was needed and we would have to build a jig for the tiles so we could cut them evenly.
Fast forward many hours and several frustrations and it's finally time to put some mud on the wall.
Even though the tiles were cut in half, they are still quite large, so we had to back-butter them before sticking them on the wall. We built a jig to set them on so they wouldn't fall down the wall and the lines would remain parallel and even.
And you can see the tile going up. Slowly but slowly, like all our progress.
So all those big, beautiful tiles must be sliced in half.
We setup the tile saw and tried a test cut. It didn't look good. It was not straight and one of the edges was very rough. A trip to the Home Depot was in our near future. A new blade was needed and we would have to build a jig for the tiles so we could cut them evenly.
Fast forward many hours and several frustrations and it's finally time to put some mud on the wall.
Even though the tiles were cut in half, they are still quite large, so we had to back-butter them before sticking them on the wall. We built a jig to set them on so they wouldn't fall down the wall and the lines would remain parallel and even.
And you can see the tile going up. Slowly but slowly, like all our progress.
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