Partway done the sunroom but had to stop because of one doorway that is not levelled yet. Once that is done we can at least finish the floor.
Even though these are floor tiles you should be able to cut easily they were not easy to cut. We bought the Allure commercial grade tiles and now I can see why they say commercial grade on them. Brian had to do most of the cutting since I could not get through them. It took many different cutters and blades to finally find one that worked for more than one tile.
I do like the tiles but we are pretty sure they will be slippery when wet. We did not originally buy these to go in there they are ones we had planned for a project at the last house but never used. There will just have to be warnings posted about how slippery they will be when wet and non slippery floor mats
One thing we learned is how dangerous a sealed concrete floor is. The floor was bare concrete so we decided to seal it before laying the floor tiles. It looked great and was keeping the place clean but neither of us realized how slippery a sealed floor was if your feet were wet. After coming out of the hot tub my wet feet hit the floor and so did I. There was no OMG! moment I was just down. It did not feel like a floor that would be that dangerous when wet. I now have a bruise on my back that is about four inches by 12 inches since I hit the stairs into the tub.
It is the Weather Shield low gloss sealer for concrete or paving stones. They have a photo on it
of it used on stone stairway. That is crazy.....
We also had to empty the hot tub because it was crooked on the floor so we needed to straighten it out. Even empty it was hard to move for the two of us. Especially when it sometimes only needed a nudge. Once we did that and refilled it to skimmer height and it was time to turn it on again, Brian had left and we thought it would be safe to do it like that, but we were wrong. Somehow the jets came on by themselves. We did not think they would unless we pushed the button, so the tub was shooting water all over the back wall and window. The only thing I could think of was turn the power off again and wait for it to fill past the jets, which worked. It was quite a cleanup but none of the room was damaged even the drywall was fine.
That was at three yesterday afternoon and the water was still not to 104 till this morning at about 10am.
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We had to remove the foam and loose concrete and refill the doorways. |
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Bathroom one is not finished yet it needs some leveller. |
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First step is putting down double sided tape the cutting the ends of the edge tiles. |
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A good start but we had to move the hot tub. |
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I love sitting in this room. |
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