One Thing Leads To Another ...

I think The Fixx wrote the song referenced above while working on a home renovation -- makes perfect sense. You start one innocent project, and the dominoes start falling.

This past weekend is another perfect example of our wanting to do one thing and being stymied because of something else. For regular readers, you may recall that Mr. Hubby and I planned to try tiling LevelHead Jr's shower. The HubMan deduced that maybe he had used too much thinset (mortar) the first time and would try less the second go-round. Great idea. But unfortunately, the result was that the tiling he had done last week stuck out farther than Saturday's attempt because of the difference in thinset quantity.

So we innocently said we'd remove every tile and start over. Another great idea. But now we can't get all the thinset off the cement board, so half of a shower wall is now a bumpy ride. And in a fit of frustration, Mr. Hubby put on a coat of RedGuard, the water sealant, on top of the leftover thinset. So now it looks like a volcano has oozed molten lava on the bottom of our wall.

OK, next idea -- he'll just remove that piece of cement board and put in a new one. Fabulous, except for the fact that he can't find the screws because of the RedGuard coloring.

Oy vie.

So today, after a good night's sleep -- with lots of dreams of beaches and daiquiris we'd be enjoying right now if we hadn't bought this house -- Mr. Hubby is off to the local hardware store before work for their advice on removing all the old thinset. And I'm going to call tile installers to see how expensive it would be to turn over the whole cotton-pickin' headache to the pros.

On an unrelated yet bummer note, we went to the remnant sale at the countertop fabricators. At first I was so excited because they had several pieces of the quartz that I have been eyeing on-line. But once the sales dude started looking at our kitchen layout, there just wasn't enough to put it together without having a million seams. Thwarted again. We did find a piece of granite for our laundry room folding area, so there you go. A brief bit of sunshine in an otherwise rainy weekend.

But we're now in a whole new week, and the electricians will be at the house tomorrow to do their rough-in. I'm sure they'll get all their work done quite efficiently without finding any problems whatsoever.

A disillusioned girl can dream, can't she??