He finally fixed the problem by taping plastic on the wall. He should put this life hack on Pinterest because I am sure there are a lot of home owners who would be excited with such an easy stylish fix. As he was telling me he could not get the tile to stick I was thinking, well you could try installing them correctly.
When we pulled the old tile off that were still attached we had to use a hammer and a chisel to knock them loose. I was thinking see there is no reason the tile will not stick if you put them up right. I put the new tile up using the thin set I always use and they looked wonderful. You can see where this is going can't you?
Yes the next morning as I was prepping the tile to grout, I noticed there was a loose tile. I pushed on it and it fell off. See all those tile on the living room floor. That means I get to do the job over again.
This time I put up new green board before I started putting up tile. When I go to restaurants I always notice the way the tile are installed in the men's room. They are never quite lined up and I think to myself, so this is a professional job?
Well, I am calling my second attempt at tiling around this shower a professional job. Haveing to do it a second time may have made me work a little faster than was prudent.
Everyone seems to feel we need to replace this lovely old antique before we rent the house. It has that fine patina of age to it that I believe the true enthusiast loves so much. There is some rust on the hinges and of course since one of the panels has fallen out since this picture was taken, that means it also has that easy pet access that is so much in demand today.
The former owner was going to replace the door with the one leaning against the side of the garage in this photo. That might have been a good idea if one of the panels on his replacement door hadn't already been broken in half.
So I drove down to Menards in Ottumwa and bought a garage door to keep the natives somewhat happy. I paid for the garage door and then had to go out to the yard to pick it up. I was quickly loaded, which is not normal procedure. I am thinking of sending notice to the Pope to see if we can get it listed as a miracle.
I then drove up to the security shack to get the door checked and so Menards could check to make sure I had not loaded any random items I had not paid for. This usually is a fairly quick process. They count items and then lift the gate and off you go. Today there was a new woman doing the checking and I noticed she was reading the SKU numbers on every roll of carpet on the trailer ahead of me. I thought to myself Oh, no this woman is taking her job much too seriously. Then I heard the conversation between her and the customer.
Can you count the rolls of carpeting? I could count them quite easily sitting in my pickup. Lets see 3,6,9 yes 9 rolls of carpeting. You can clearly see 9 rolls of carpeting. Problem was the customer kept insisting he had 10 rolls of carpeting.
He would pick up a roll and look under it to see if there was another roll under it. Nope, no roll of carpeting under that one. Then he would pick up another roll. He would go clear across the trailer picking them up and looking, then he would work back across the other way. When he reached where he had started he would begin again. I will have to admit I was thinking to myself , I am caught behind an idiot and I will be here when eternity comes as he keeps looking for that roll of carpeting he is so sure is there. Now if he had the capacity to think, he would have agreed with the security woman, turned around, went back to the load out door and gotten that 10th roll of carpeting. but, no this guy was not going to take the sensible road. There was no way he could be wrong. He had counted 10 rolls when they loaded his trailer so there were 10 rolls on that trailer and no one was going to convince him otherwise. I will admit I have to give him a 10 for stubborn stupidity.
The security woman finally got him to pull out of the way. She told him to turn around and come back into the yard and he could continue counting his load to see if that nasty roll of carpeting would stop playing hide and seek. Oh, No, he was not about to pull back into the yard when he was sure he had 10 rolls of carpeting on that trailer somewhere. He pulled out into the front parking lot and started unloading them so he could get a good count.
I had an open road ahead of me and I left when I probably should have stayed to watch the show. Now I will always wonder how the carpet was moving around so he could not find it. Should we all be a little afraid that there is smart carpet out there. If you put in new carpet will it move from room to room when you are not looking? These are the kind of questions that will now keep me awake at night.
Probably it will just keep me awake late at night though. I find it very easy to fall asleep in my recliner by 9:30. Light a fire in the fire place, lean back and drift off. Our stack of firewood was getting low so Sharon and I went out to cut some this afternoon. Nothing like the radiant heat of a crackling fire on a cold night in Iowa. I didn't count how many pieces of wood we put on the pickup so I don't know if wood hides just like carpeting does.
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