{"id":1091,"date":"2017-11-21T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:42:58","slug":"getting-ready-for-tile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/21\/getting-ready-for-tile\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for tile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got quite a bit of tile work that needs to be done.\u00a0 The first thing the tile guys are going to start on are the showers.\u00a0 In preparation for that, some guys came by yesterday to water proof the shower pans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7454-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7454-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7454-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7454-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1093\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7456-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7456-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7456-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7456-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1094\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7459-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7459-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7459-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This had to be one of the worst smelling things we&#8217;ve done so far.\u00a0 The tar smell was pretty bad all around the property outside, but, inside the house, it was almost unbearable, and visibly smokey.\u00a0 For instance, here is a picture I took in teh basement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1095\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7458-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7458-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7458-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7458-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The camera did a pretty good job of capturing the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The tar looks like it might be wet and gooey, given how shiny it is, but even just a short time after they laid it down, it was quite hard, and not at all sticky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit to having watched quite a bit of Mike Holmes shows on HDTV, and I remember they always used a water proofing product called Ditra right over the plywood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"llorix-one-lite-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3UjHPUcGUk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I just assumed this was the way to go.\u00a0 In comparison, a layer of tar seems old-school.\u00a0 I have yet to ask the tile guy about why tar might be better, or whether they plan on using a layer of a something like Ditra as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got quite a bit of tile work that needs to be done.\u00a0 The first thing the tile guys are going to start on are the showers.\u00a0 In preparation for that, some guys came by yesterday to water proof the shower pans. This had to be one of the worst smelling things we&#8217;ve done so<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/21\/getting-ready-for-tile\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Getting ready for tile<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tile-stone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}