Working With Mud!

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Friday, 16 October 2009 07:45

This week we started a job at a home up on the beach in North Bethany Beach.  This home has been under construction for just about one year and it will be quite a showplace when it is all finished.

The bathrooms on this job have been sunken 2-1/2" below the rest of the floors with the intent to fill them with a mortar bed.  To get started as shown in the first picture below, Josh has installed a layer of 15lb. felt paper on the wood floor and then covered the tar paper with diamond wire lathe.  We have included a sill sealer around the entire perimeter of the room as an expansion joint.

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In this next picture Josh is shown working the mortar (or mud) as he begins to pile it in place.

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Next, Josh uses a straight edge (or a screed) to get the mortar bed flat and level.

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Well, one bathroom floor finished and ready for our next layer (Ditra Matting) and then the tile.  Lots more to come as this job develops.  We are going to be installing some very unusual tiles and designs at this house and will certainly include pictures on our blog as we get deeper into this project!

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