Grouting the Tile in the Laundry Room

 We put in the grout this evening on the tiles in the laundry room. First step was to get everything cleaned up and push the grout into all of the cracks between the tiles. Under the washer and dryer were a little tough to get to.

After doing this we waited for about a half hour and came back with sponge to get things cleaned up. Here is a before and after picture of the area between the doors. We will wipe the haze real quick before we head to bed tonight. The final grout should dry a little lighter in color than this.

Tiling the Laundry Room

 We tiled the laundry room last week before Tyler left for Germany again. It still needs to be grouted but all the tiles are cut and in place.

Tile Backerboard

We are getting ready to lay the tiles on the floor in the laundry room. To do this we needed to lay a tile backer board on the floor. The original floor was two layers of 3/4" subfloor. One of them was removed and we added a 1/4" backer board and 1/4" tile to make it just about level with the kitchen wood floor. Since we are only using a 1/4" backer board it was put down with a layer of thinset under it. Here you can see a picture of one piece down and the thinset being troweled out for the next piece

New Hinges on the Laundry Room Door

I don't know what someone was thinking when they originally installed the door to the laundry room. The hinge mortice was just taken out of the door and the hinge was sitting flush in the door jam? It also looks like the mortice was chewed out by a beaver. These are the projects that we spend a couple of hours on and when you are done everything almost looks the same. Here is a picture of what the original mortice looked like on the door (not very good looking).

Here is what the door jam looked like (nothing was cut out).

 

After the old mortice area was chiseled out.

It is a little hard to see in this picture but there is a new piece of wood that is glued into the hole cut out where hinge mortice needs to go. There is another board holding it in place while the glue dries.

The new board is sanded flush with the door and the new mortice is cut.

The door was then planed to get a perfect fit (it used to be a little tight). You can see where the deadbolt on the original door was filled in.

Here is the finished hinge in place in the door jam. Looks much better. Still need to take a picture of the door hung.

First warmer day

We had one of our first warm days last weekend so Sam Poppy and I headed out to weed the garden for a little bit. Obviously Poppy was the only one who spotted the camera.

Coat Hanger for the Laundry Room

There is a little space on the back wall in the laundry room for some coat hooks. We looked around for something that we would like but did not find anything, so we decided to make something. We just used a pine board with a trim top piece and a bead around the bottom. Here you can see it before painting.




A couple of coats of paint later.

And this is what it will look like with the hooks attached. We will wait to put it up until we get another coat of paint on the walls.