And the tiling goes on, and on, and on, and on. The thing about Metro tiles is that the tiling is non stop. And then comes the grouting. I've used about 3x as much grout on the walls to cover the same amount of space as the floors. On the bright side, the tiling is almost finished .. er would be closer to finished if we had ordered the right amount, but that's another story (see my last post)
Anyway, on to the weekend. I finished off the half row of tiles on the bottom of the far (accent) wall and then did some much needed grouting. As you can see in the photos, the wall looks much more finished now.
After letting the grout dry and enjoying some of the nice t-shirt weather, I started installing the heated towel rail. Those ugly things sticking out of the floor are the hopefully well placed pipe ends. After doing a test fit and drilling through the Carbyne tiles for what felt like hours (and several drill bits later) came the moment of truth
The radiator fit! My measuring was good. And good thing 'cause these pipes 'aint movin'
And then the second test, turning on the water. This test didn't go so well. The pipe ends inside the rad weren't tightened enough (requires a special hex key) so the floor got a bit wet. A second casualty was the chrome pipe covers as these wouldn't allow the compression nut to go on without cutting down too much. So Amazon to the rescue again - pipe key and new chrome slip-on sleeves now on order. The towel rad should be working by next weekend.
But at least I had some volunteers to make sure it looked nice and shiny! One genuinely helped and one just posed for the picture (I'll leave that up to people to guess which one)
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