The floor goes in

The tile has arrived! The house is covered from dust from all the drywall sanding, but no use in cleaning until we are done with everything, since it will just get messier. Chad has a poker game on Feb 21 so this is the working deadline to have an operational bathroom. However he notes that guys will not mind using the skanky bathroom downstairs, and so perhaps it is not much a deadline afterall. A girl can dream. Meanwhile it is -40 outside and showering downstairs with no heat is quite the adventure. BRRR.

We are adding heated floors to the bathroom since there is not a heat vent in there. For such a small space, the heated floors are pretty affordable -- about $500 for the bathroom, and most of this is for the thermostat unit. The heat is electric and is provided via a mat on the floor.

Laying down the electrical mat for the heat.

Then, you mortar over the wires and then lay tile over that. Now, the wires are all hidden in the mortar:

And we can lay the tiles down! I love the little floor tiles. They are .6 inches. If tiles could be cute, these are! We were thinking of going with a hexagon tile to have more of a period style, but I really like these little square guys. I believe that it is a honed marble, so it's not shiny. The color is an off-white with some variation.

Tomorrow, the grout goes in. For now, the tiles need to set.