Gino started laying the marble in the kitchen yesterday. He checked the level of the floor and thought it looked good so he started setting our 24 inch tiles. He set 3 of them, and on his fourth he had a hard time getting the joints to line up (Butt Joint) and he decided to tear up the three tiles he already set (it took him 2 hours) and to put down a floor leveler to make his job easier down the line.
I went to the Home Depot and bought UltraPlan, another Mapei product. UltraPlan is a high performance, quick setting, self-leveling underlayment for tile floors. The purpose of it is to level the floors to make butt jointing tile much easier and less time consuming. If the floor isn’t even after we lay the tile, marble tile can break. We used up 4 bags ($40 a bag) to level the floor in the kitchen.
This morning, we went back to home depot, bought a new 1/2 inch drill to replace the one that burnt out yesterday (i also bough it yesterday..so I exchanged the busted one for a new one), picked up 14 bags of Marmolina to plaster the walls (we should finish up this afternoon) and a new trow to apply the UltraPlex 2 marble grout / thinset.
The twins are supposed to show back up today at 2:30 to finish up with the wall plastering downstairs…it took about a week and a half. They said 4 days. I am really glad Summer and I discussed this one ahead of time and decided to pay them for the entire job (payment at the completion of the job) as opposed to the per day charge they suggested.
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Yes Sir per day charges suck and never work. Funny how 4 days moves into 10. I know most everyone we work with so if they under bid it I have no problem givin them extra. A couple of hundred bucks extra makes for a good job and good long term relationships which is always what we are after. Having come from the craftsmen side of things, alot of trust and easy long term relationships are greated with a tiny bonus.