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Second Coat of Glaze on the Walls, and Grout Sealer Applied

28th February 2007

Second Coat of Glaze on the Walls, and Grout Sealer Applied

This is just a quick update on what we accomplished tonight, in between runs to the home store, and Bob Evans restaurant.  I think I was going into Bob Evans withdrawl there for a while…but now I am better.  :)

The tiles had been washed with cold water and a sponge one more time earlier in the afternoon.  They were dry enough, so I went in and used a new tinted glaze on the walls.  The idea was to tone down the more ‘Spanish’ look that I got with the terra cotta/cinnamon colored glaze.  I used a rag-rolling type of technique and it worked really well.   Now we’ve got this cool, layered, old tuscan plaster look.  It’s a little bit like what they tell you the Bellagio Faux product from Behr is supposed to look like, but I made this all myownself.

After that was well on its way to drying we started in on sealing the grout lines.  The tiles and grout had been curing since Sunday afternoon, so I knew that was plenty of time to wait.  I will post a separate product review on the TileLab grout sealer I used.  We then applied one final coat of the AquaMix sealer and enhancer over the tiles right around the toilet gasket.  We plan to put the toilet back tomorrow night, and this way that section of tile will be completly cleaned and sealed, and the grout will be done too.

So for now, it’s time to go to bed.  That was a decent amount of work to get done on a school night!  Cheers!

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