We are in that fortunate season at the Roediger House when I have time and am also inspired to work on checking items off the always-present to-do list. The photo above can showcase one of those matters: for 12 years now, I've had to slowly watch the disintegration of the tile grout in the master bathroom...
...ultimately leading to a completely dislodged tile right in front of the sink.
A little background: the first major project I undertook with the Roediger House, after buying it in 2003, occurred in late 2008 into 2009: demolishing the old kitchen and very sad bathrooms on the back of the house and building a completely new and much-expanded kitchen area and several bathrooms. My general contractor, Peter R. Laroque of Mocksville, NC, was mostly good and I was pleased for 90 percent of it all. Ah, but as the project neared its conclusion all those years ago, there were elements that he did not finish up as he should have. One of the persistent problems has been in the bathroom tile work, where there was cracking and loose tiles occurring within a year or so of the job wrapping up.
Over the last week or so I reached back out to Todd Sink of Amazing Tile by Todd to come take care of the loose tile in the master bathroom. Mr. Sink installed the backsplash in the kitchen in 2017, which looks great even still. He does very nice work and he is able to offer terrific craftmanship without gouging the customer...a rare combination especially when one is looking for skilled expertise in a city environment...and in an old house like this.
Mr. Sink was here last Tuesday, to take up most of the center tile so that he could grind and clean the quickset from the undersides, and he dug out most of the rest of the grout throughout the floor. He set the tile that afternoon and returned on Wednesday to fill in the grout. It's amazing to have the floor whole again, and especially to no longer have tile rockin' and rollin' underfoot!
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