First day of my two week holiday!
.. well sort of…. when I say ‘holiday’ what I really mean is two weeks of working like a dog around the house wishing I was back at work where at least I was getting paid.
My nephew came down and stayed over on Saturday so that he could help out with the tiling and learn how to do it himself. Because he worked really hard I didn’t even charge him for he masterclass. So we put the majority of tiles down in the kitchen after they’d been stored in the garage since Christmas when I finished the rest of the kitchen.
So this morning I started measuring up the tiles for the cutting. Slight problem, my radial arm tile saw won’t accommodate a 1 metre tile…… After searching around the intermerweb I realised that I would need a Rubi 250 1200 radial tile saw “That’ll be one thousand pounds to you sir”.
I spoke to the tile shop in Salisbury where I go the tiles from and he has kindly arranged for me to have a loan of a manual 1500 tile splitter which he assures me will do the job. We’ll see, i’m not convinced until I use it as the tiles are quite heavily ridged as they resemble wood planking.
Going to collect it tomorrow morning so we’ll give it a go.
All being well should get the majority of it finished tomorrow.
This is me in full ’tiling god’ outfit…… I was trapped down that end of the kitchen for 16 hours whilst I waited for the adhesive to go off, wife threw buns (and abuse) at regular intervals.
