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Tile Drama


We love 3 of our 4 types of tile.....the limestone and two types of smooth glass tiles look great....our 1x1 textured tumbled glass tiles are another matter...they were not properly wiped down before the grout hardened....we are now hand scraping thousands of these little things as they are in 5 locations in the 4 bathrooms......we're not so fond of our tile guy any more as he has not stepped up to the plate to take responsibility for dealing with this....

Do you have an hour to spare? We are using old dental tools that our friend John Williams gave us......they work well, but we have LOTS of tile to go over before we can seal it and place our sinks and toilet fixtures. We are so very thankful for our friend Jeff Adams and our neice Chris, they have spent many hours helping us with the tile scraping project....

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