Shower completed

cutting around the shower handles

cutting around the shower head fittings

shower tiling finished - ready for grouting!

and now back to finish the skirting board tiles.

(Notice the traditional switches & power points!)

Bathroom Tiling Day 5

the feature tile

all the lines are straight

and have a 2mm space between each tile

Robert's not happy if they're not!

the double shower is definitely taking shape now !!

Statistics - 9 square meters of the grey floor tiles,

now doing the 9 square meters of white brick tiles.

Bathroom Tiling Day 4

Today we started to climb the wall - bathroom wall, that is!

Bathroom Tiling Day 3

Mixing the adhesive - 1litre or 2 at a time

skirting board pieces go up

and around corners too

Looking good !!

Bathroom Tiling Day 2

And the laying continues

the wall edges are a bit fiddly - the wall's not straight!

Can't expect perfection with an old house!

and the drain is a bit fiddly too!!

Floor finally finished.

some of the skirting pieces cut for tomorrow

Bathroom Tiling Day 1

The tiles have arrived! Today is Day 1 of tiling the bathroom.

start by laying the adhesive

the first 4 tiles

they measure 30 x 60cm each

(that's 1 foot x 2 feet in old measurement!)

the second row

the tiles are a granite lookalike

the colour is anthracite

Robert using a diamond edged blade to cut the tiles

third row completed

first corner acchieved

checking the level

tiling right up to back wall of shower

happy worker !!

that's it for day 1 - see you tomorrow !!

Bathroom 2

The bathroom ceiling is now white. Two coats of ceiling paint on top of two coats of Cover-stain.

Next step was to lay the cement sheeting (on a slight angle so that the water flows towards the drain) in readiness for the floor tiles.

Autumn

Autumn is truly a wonderful season.

the silver birches down our driveway

photographed by Robert

Bathroom

The waterproofing in the shower is now finished, and we now turn to the ceiling.

The ceilings are baltic pine, and at some stage they have had shellac put on them, with a stain in the shellac.

To make sure the stain doesn't bleed through when you paint over it, a special undercoat is required. It's a sealer & undercoat in one . . .  and is called CoverStain.

Once the CoverStain is on, and dry, the next step is to apply a paintable Silicone to any gaps between the boards. When the roof was being replaced, we noticed we could see through the ceiling at a number of places, and we have 110 year old dust drifting down.

Shower

We are back in the bathroom now. Today's job is to apply waterproofing to the plasterboard walls in the shower area.  It looks like egg yolk - and is a similar consistency too!!

Robert - your turn now!!

Snow

We woke to find snow on Mt Roland outside our front window. We only saw it occasionally during the day because it kept raining. Our rainwater tank is full to overflowing.

The farmer who has the potato crop you can just see to the left of the paddocks, had to stop his harvesting until the rain cleared, and the ground dried up a bit. It wouldn't do to have the trucks bogged!

Mt Roland again

and behind Mt Roland is the Western Tiers, and their dumping was a bit heavier!

And it's not yet winter!!