This bathroom rehab has a pitched floor starting at the shower to allow easy entry with no curb wall to step over. The penny tiles feel good and provide a low slip hazard surface. When using this style of tiles I would recommend a high quality grout. Here we used Custom Building Products Fusion Pro Single Component Grout. The linear drain with tile insert is from Neodrain.
Tile Work
Installed on our custom base cabinets.
Feel good on the feet!
I was thinking about this shower job recently when asked by a friend who needs some work done on his place if I thought it was crazy to consider using pebbles for the floor of his shower. Well not at all; actually maybe a little bit crazy. He plans on collecting all the pebbles from the beach on Lake Michigan where he walks every day. We shall see.
All the tile pictured was bought from Home Carpet One in Chicago and they were very helpful.
Sometimes you need to cut a contour of tile or maybe a piece of molding. The best way to do this is by using a profile gauge.
I will transfer the profile to a cardboard template and make sure the contour is correct. Then you can cut you material from there be it tile or wood on a piece of trim.
32″ x 24″ Glass, ceramic, porcelain, slate and fire brick tile. The jam is made with colored 5-minute epoxy! Designed by Dr. Katrin Asbury – http://www.katrinasbury.com
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I have gotten a lot of use out of this pool table slate (see these entries The Brunswick Slate Story Part I and From Pool Hall to Countertop – Second Life for Brunswick ) Last fall when our second daughter was on her way we needed a new changing table setup. So I cobbled together this little guy with bits and pieces of wood lying around and the last large piece of the Brunswick slate. The wood is Ipe and Brazilian cherry so I guess both of these woods came from Brazil. The cherry is leftover flooring tongue and groove from a project in our house. The legs are Ipe and came from a trellis that had been outside in the weather for about six years. I made the trellis for a client who wanted to grow clematis on it. After a few years she realized the clematis were never going to climb all the way up the trellis. She asked if I could shorten it so I cut off about three feet from the lower half.The cut off legs made good stock for the legs on the changing table. A little about that Ipe wood. It has become very popular with builders of high end decks due to its durability, insect, fire and rot resistance.
The Brunswick slate story began with me finding three 3 by 5 foot pieces in a dumpster on 53rd street near Harper Avenue while riding by on my bike. The pieces once were a tournament size pool table, 9 feet by 4 1/2 feet. I rode home and returned with my van and dug them out. I decided the first use would be a counter top in our basement apartment that I was working on at the time. I had a salvaged sink already from a client that “upgraded” and figured that the 7/8″ thick slate would work with a little support as a good counter top material. I cut the sink opening using a wet/dry diamond blade on my circular saw. The first few cuts were done with water so that I could gather some good clean slate slurry for the epoxy seaming, however the slate seems to cut just fine without water and have since preferred to cut this slate dry or without water. This method produces a lot of dust but it can be collected easily with a shop vac while cutting. I sanded the surface with a standard 4″ random orbital sander and 220 and 320 grit paper. This is unlike most stone that would require a diamond grit sanding/polishing system. I installed the stone on top of a ledger board and a strong oak face board. Where the two pieces came together I glued/filled the seem by mixing up a batch of 5 minute epoxy and the slurry. Finally for a sealer I used a small amount of food grade mineral oil. This finish method can be easily maintained and repaired later if needed.
This is the third use of the Brunswick slate that I pulled from the dumpster on 53rd street a few years back. The sink is Ikea Boholmen and the faucet is by Hansgrohe Talis S