What better way to spend a snow day than laying a tile floor? After one of the machines we were moving out tipped over and gouged a nice sized hole in the floor, I pulled up (mostly in pieces) the tile around the damaged area. Turns out that section of floor had been replaced before with a 4×8 sheet of plywood. Thinking we would have to replace the entire 4×8 sheet, I pulled the tile around that plywood. Well, we only had to replace 1/2 of it, so I was left with some more tile to replace.
The old tile in the center had some machinery on it, so there are rust and oil spots, but my kickwheel will go over it, so no big deal. I’m not that interested in replacing perfectly good tile, anyways!
Next is dealing with the replaced sub-floor. Since it is not quite the same material as the existing sub-floor, step one is to fill the seam between the replaced piece and the rest of the sub-floor. The grey stuff around the outside is the filler. That takes 3 days to cure, so the studio is “off limits” to everyone but me – no pressure can be put on the sub-floor until the filler has dried. If anyone is going to break it, I want it to be me!
It should be cured and ready to go on Thursday – then I’ll put down floor leveler, let it dry, and finally lay the last 20 pieces of tile. If all goes well, by next week the floor will be done!
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New tile
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Filler between 2 pieces of subfloor
