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   Sphere | Jun 25, 2007 12:30am | #1

   Dude..you tiled that in ONE day?

   Awesome.  But yer not looking too happy in the pic.  LOL

   EDIT: oppps...Dude you tiled all that in TWO days?

   Takes me that long to find my tools.......

    

   
   

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   Edited 6/24/2007 5:31 pm ET by Sphere

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   arnemckinley | Jun 25, 2007 02:07am | #2

   two days seems like a reasonable time to finish tiling a one stall shower. i bet he laid it in less than 16 hrs.

   excellent work once again Mcdesign.  for me time seems to slow down in those small complex spaces, lots of trim :)

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   McDesign | Jun 25, 2007 03:47am | #5

   Thanks!  Took about twelve hours over the two days. 

   I'm not a fan of hanging little gridded tiles - they wiggle around too much if my thinset consistancy is not perfect.

   Forrest

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   Jer | Jun 25, 2007 02:24am | #3

   Nice work.
   By the title of this thread I thought I was going to see a picture of a CUTE angel...er I mean angle....well you know what I meant to say.....
   Man you gotta word your titles different.

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   McDesign | Jun 25, 2007 03:44am | #4

   Thanks! 

   But, it worked.  With any popular writing, a good title has to grab the reader first.

   I mean, you wouldn't pick up The Wealth of Nations or The Origin of Species for an interesting quickie read at the beach, when you could grab I, the Jury or Kiss me, Deadly instead.

   Forrest - in training

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   Jer | Jun 25, 2007 04:56am | #6

   "you wouldn't pick up The Wealth of Nations or The Origin of Species for an interesting quickie read at the beach, when you could grab I, the Jury or Kiss me, Deadly instead."Actually, (dirty little secret here), I'm a geek to a great degree, perhaps not on the outward, and these days I find much more interest in the former rather than the latter. Not that Mike Hammer never moved in on my alter ego."How could you...?""Baby...it was easy."

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   McDesign | Jun 25, 2007 05:11am | #7

   Hooray for Geekdom! 

   I've been reading Churchill's A History of the English Speaking People (in seven volumes, no less!) and am up to 1720s, but I'm slumming this weekend and re-reading Lawrence Block's tough guy Matt Scudder in A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.

   Forrest - keeping in balance

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   Grover | Jul 22, 2007 10:33pm | #20

   The Cutest Ones aren't Angled---they're Curved!  Bathrooms are also on my mind--just about done gutting one today, tomorrow start on the Re-Do, in 3 or 4 shades of white; no cobalt dolphins, unfortunately.  And I'm impressed--you guys are so literate!  The only things I take the time to read are cereal boxes, parking meters, and.., uh, Breaktime.

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   dovetail97128 | Jun 25, 2007 06:40am | #8

   McDesign,

   Nice stuff!
   Kudos to ya.

   "Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
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   plantlust | Jun 25, 2007 06:48am | #9

   Gorgeous cobalt blue tiles! Looks like it was a tricky space.I ended up making my kitchen cobalt blue & white (was split pea soup green-ICK) & found the blue as SWIMMING POOL tiles! Then it me 6 months to find the right shade of white tiles to go w/the cobalt.Do dogs get addicted to licking toads or is that just prey instinct?

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   aimless | Jun 25, 2007 09:04am | #10

   That's the color scheme I want in my kitchen. But it will take another 8 years to pay off the bathroom...

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   splintergroupie | Jun 25, 2007 09:38am | #11

   I believe those are the same tiles i used on my floor accent squares, along with another from Lowe's called "Dolphin" with a crystalline glaze, also a complimentary match.

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   McDesign | Jun 25, 2007 03:41pm | #12

   You know what's really freaky?  The client's ORIGINAL choice for this shower, because I had done two others using it,

   was

   Lowes

   Dolphin.

   !!

   What's the chances of that?

   Forrest - thinking alike

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   stevent1 | Jun 25, 2007 03:47pm | #13

   Good looking work. Small space are always the mostchallenging.Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood

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   McDesign | Jun 25, 2007 03:52pm | #14

   Yes!  It's hard to turn around when yer squatting down and not brush setting tile!

   Once again, I showed this client your tile medallion thread, and that they WOULDN'T be getting that.

   I'm bartering this work for my graveled shop driveway - his company does road work.

   Forrest

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   bd | Jun 25, 2007 04:09pm | #15

   F,Beautiful work -- again!Question. What's the wall treatment above the tiles in the picture where you showed the light fixtures?

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   McDesign | Jun 25, 2007 05:01pm | #16

   Thanks!

   The decorative border tile gets a 1" wide by 3/4" thick strip of white Azek trim as a "cap".  It matches the 1x6 on top of the shower wall, and should be on by now - I cut it yesterday for him.

   Forrest

    

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   splintergroupie | Jun 25, 2007 08:52pm | #17

   Chances of that...Well, the two tiles are displayed right next to each other at my Lowe's....yours, too? Think of it...tile jobs all over the nation using those two kinds of tiles together...Maybe we've been maneuvered into Group-Think by The Big Box!

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   finsher | Jul 22, 2007 03:46pm | #18

   OK everyone has already commented on how nice the design looks and it does  but I have a technical question.  Did you buy your shower pan pre-made to that shape or did you build your own?  I have built my own and would rather not have to do it again but I  will be doing a total bathroom with a shower that must fit into a specific space similar to yours but can't find pre-made bottoms that can be tiled. 

   Thanks

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   McDesign | Jul 22, 2007 05:42pm | #19

   Thanks!

   I did make my own tile base - I always have, and it's not too difficult.  I seem to do it differently than most of the guys here, in that I just use concrete (the "orange bag" fiber-reinforced Sakrete from Home Depot) for the tile base.  Mix in a wheelbarrow; bring into the house in a bucket.

   Forrest

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   finsher | Jul 23, 2007 04:34pm | #21

   So you lay your liner flat and up the walls, cut out for the drain and put in stand, then lay your tile base concrete with a slope on that?  Have you ever had cracking, or leaking problems?  How thick does your bed end up being and lastly do you mix it to a dry consistancy so it packs in place?  Your way sounds a whole lot easier than 2 different concrete mixes etc.  The shower I will be doing is 4' x 6'.  Have you had success with that size?

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   McDesign | Jul 23, 2007 07:58pm | #22

   I do slope under the liner - that's important.  But, I usually do it wil plywood over tapered ribs.  I don't pay too much attention to the concrete consistancy - just a reasonably stiff mix that won't slump into the screed strips when I remove them.

   Bed usually is about 3 - 3-1/2" thick at the edge, maybe 2-1/2 - 2-3/4" at the center. My personal shower is about 4' x 6'.

   No cracking that I know of - eleven years for my oldest one, and I'm still in contact with most of the clients.

   Forrest