Totally Totty for Tiling

I did my first bit of tiling this week and you know what - I loved it!

After a short lesson from Mike I was away. He gave me a good tip with the spacers -  rather than sitting them in the corners of each tile and grouting them in, you can reuse them by using them on their edge and facing them proud of the wall:

Tile adhesive mixed, it was up on to the wall and a tessalation in a brickwork pattern. 

By measuring carefully and taking my time, I found the whole process quite medatitive: 

The lower edges needed some spacer support:

And you can see how different the floor level is from one side to the other:

There were a few tricky components to keep clear of:

But once it all went up I was really impressed:

Next it was time to grout:

And once polished up the shower got installed

I'm really proud of it and now going to attempt the remaining 3 bathrooms AND the kitchen floor!

Raising the Brickwork

Mike had been a bit concerned about the height of the cooker hood in the old fireplace opening:

 It wasn't much of a problem for me but because of  his extra height we decided to raise the opening and finish off the brickwork surround by reclaiming the old bricks. 

Once finished, it looked fab:

We had noticed a damp patch on the external wall, and as this was going to be a cupboard later on we thought it would be a good idea to introduce an airbrick into it at this stage, so we did:

We also had the flue installed to the old bread oven:

Meaning that we could test it out:

It had great draw up the chimney and will be the ideal pizza oven when we move into the kitchen!