Tiling

Tiling floors always starts with putting down special underlayment. Martin has both bathrooms and the kitchen/dining room ready to be tiled. 

He will start with the shower and bathtub surrounds first. Then both bathrooms get painted before floor tile gets put down.

Nothing like scraping paint of of brand-new tile! We want to avoid that as much as possible.

Martin set up the wet saw in the window reading nook so he could protect the surrounding area with plastic, since wet saws splatter a bit.

 The downstairs bathtub surround is tiled. Martin needed to adapt some of the fixtures before he could grout.

Of course, Martin came up with a solution to the fixture problem and the tub is grouted.

 Kitchen/Dining room floor is tiled.
The darker tiles are where the cabinets are going to go. The lighter tiles designate the dining room area.

The upstairs shower in progress.

Upstairs shower tiled and grouted.

Office and bedrooms are primed

 We are almost ready to paint. All of the downstairs is primed. We only have the two bedrooms upstairs to finish mudding and priming. I say "we" but I really mean Martin. 

Soon we will be discussing color schemes. Wish me luck!

Heat and hot water systems have been installed

Having the wood stove installed was a great improvement over no heat, but it worked like a tether. Martin couldn't be gone long from Cornish, not with the season fast approaching winter and winter temperatures. We have had several frosts and snow flakes have been reported.

Waltz and Sons Propane

came and installed our on demand hot water heater and our propane wall furnace.

Now Martin doesn't have to worry about how long he may be gone from an tigin.