So, its been a minute since my last post. Things have been very busy with the kitchen, kids, and being sick. I figured I would update for anyone wondering what became of my mess. I did take photos, but I also forgot to take a lot of photos. Sorry guys :/Here is the link to my first post: http://ift.tt/2GuNeUw is my new few pictures: http://ift.tt/2rOCugu hardwood was ripped out, and we were about to get to work on the backerboard when we found water damage on the subfloor at the back door. My husband and I decided the safest bet would be to cut out that area and replace that section of subfloor with pressure treated wood, after reinforcing the beams underneath.Once our water damage was taken care of we got ready to lay the hardiebacker. We were told we only had to screw it down, but that using thinset would help prevent creaking and the like. So we did both. We placed in on thinset, and then screwed it down as well. We had a hard time with the first 3 hardiebacker, and afterwards decided to do the smart thing by cutting and laying the hardieboard everywhere it would go. Because cutting hardieback with already mixed thinset is a stupid idea.After we got the hardiebacker down, we had to wait for it to set and be able to walk on it, after which my husband went over and used more thinset to fill the gaps between the backer boards. Then that got to dry.Before we mortared any tile down we made sure to lay out every tile and get every cut we needed ahead of time. That took quite a bit of cutting, since our kitchen has some fun shapes. Once cut we laid it all down again with the spacers and made any extra adjustments. Then we just went row by row mixing mortar, and laying the tiles. We chose 16" tiles so that wasn't too bad.My husband had a day off and was layjng tile when I got home... And then I noticed he had missed a few spacers which left the grout lines getting wider. We found the few problem tiles and had to rip those up, scrape them and the floor clean, and re-set them. After that I was helping again lol. The grout wasnt to bad to do. That was all my husband. We used a sealer and made sure to use 2 coats.The last thing we did was put up covebase instead of moulding, since I liked it better.We only have a few more things to touch up, and we are currently having "fun" trying to find a transition that will work with the laminate to tile.In all, I will say it wasn't too terrible to get it done, but I won't be doing any more random winter house renovations. Shout out to u/jumunki for putting up with my shit! via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2GuUmQL
