I hope everyone is having a nice Sunday morning, it's sunny here, and even though we had frost last night, it is near 40* already.. another frost/freeze warning for tonight.
I worked late last night,, I was cleaning out buckets and washing thinset off tools and my hands at 11pm last night.. I overdid it a bit
I mixed up a bucket of slightly thinner thinset to put down a few tiles that were thick and needed only a very thin layer of mud.. But then moved on to some thinner tiles, and needed thicker thinset, so I mixed up some in the normal consistancy.. I had plenty of precut pieces ready to put down..
As I worked around the island putting down tiles, leveling, cleaning as I went, I worked around till I was done with the perimeter of the island.. then I discovered that I couldn't get up off my knees.. I was so stiff in the kneeling position that even with pulling on the countertop, I couldn't get up. So I crawled over to the stairs, and crawled up the stairsteps, till I could turn around and slowly straighten my legs. When I did stand up, my knees really protested..
I still had enough thinset mixed up to put down about 4-5 more pieces of slate, so back to the floor I went, and about an hour later I had used up most of the mud, and gave up for the night..
I've already started in again this morning,, I'm off this week, and other than a doc appt or two, I plan on doing nothing but slate tile till this %%##$$%$%#$^^&%% job is done.. I don't want to look at it any more..
It is a very clear, bright sunny day,, maybe I'll take the mutt for a short walk, and check out the AA. It's chugging away out in the boiler building.. I probably need to empty the ash pan, I can't remember who or when it was emptied last..
Probably overflowing
Well, back to the wet-saw and knee-pads.
Greg L.