A quarter mile of tile. Delivered.

Seven pallets of tile, enough to cover 1,600 square feet, have been scootched into the garage. Headquarters said the forklift would be too tall to position the tiles undercover in the garage, but we encouraged Edwardo to finesse the job and our fork master slid everything inside, just the way Russ the tile layer will want it when he sets up.
Russ showed up early this morning and pulled the carpet and pad, and took out a lot of the tackless. He's smoothing and sealing the areas in preparation for the big day: Friday when a full crew shows up to trim and cement the tile in place.

This is the easy part. The hard part was giving directions.
The house isn't on the Google Map yet, so verbal
instructions were given as he drove toward us. It
would have been easier if we knew only knew Spanish.

This house has four toilets in it, but we'll be down to one soon. Russ made us choose which one will be kept operational while they pull the others to tile beneath them. We opted for the Jack and Jill upstairs.
Meanwhile on the backside, the patio guys are threading gas pipe, electric and water. The big cement pour is tomorrow morning, come and watch if you're in the neighborhood.
Upstairs a room is being prepped and taped for painting and downstairs Stan has tackled a knotty grout project, the kind you get when there are many tiny designer tiles with uneven and textured faces. How do you wipe the grout off the little fussy faces without depleting your grout lines?
There's nothing on YouTube about that.

The jewelry pieces, the ones that are sort of blue, catch the grout. If you scrub, you lessen the grout line. If you
leave it, you've got a chore for later after the grout has hardened. We're leaving a little of it for later. It will be sort of like cleaning your fingernails.