Progress was slowed again by the third major snowstorm of the season. Not only was a lot of time spent shoveling the driveway, but also the roof. It sprung a slight leak, so I spent several hours raking snow off the roof with my homemade long-handle snow rake. I could reach most of the roof by standing on our massive piles of snow.
Even with all the snow, we're staying on schedule and should be finished by the end of the month.
Here I mix tile mortar which is used to patch the cement backerboard seams.
A strip of fiberglass tape is embedded in mortar to cover the seams.
The mortar has cured and the backerboard is ready for tile.
Still deciding how to tile the bottom of the niche - leaning towards a single piece of tile instead of the tile mosaic since the grout would probably stain easily from all of the shampoo & soap bottles.
The drywall seams are covered with three layers of compound and a piece of paper drywall tape. Here the first step is done.
The screw holes are also covered with compound. Two more layers of drywall compound to go.
After the third layer of compound dries, we sand it smooth. I was going to try to wet-sand (which was recommended to avoid dust), but then I realized you need a special sponge. I didn't want to make a run to the hardware store, so I opted to dry sand with traditional drywall sand paper.
Now that the sanding is done, we can start painting the walls. We'll do this before tiling so we don't have to worry about spilling paint on the new tile.
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