THE CAVENDER DIARY

I know everyone is anxious to see how our master bathroom is chugg-chuggin’ along…..

After cladding all the “wet” walls with Hardi-Board, Jamie set about covering all the seams with mesh joint tape.

It’s slightly adhesive and covers the seems pretty easily.

If that’s not a “Hurry-the-F-up-and-Take-the-Picture” Face, then I don’t know what is.

Here’s a little trick.

To cut the edge, Jamie uses the spatula as a straight-edge and just tears the tape along the edge of the blade.

Pretty clever.

Then, he spread a layer of  thinset mortar over all the seams and the currently flush screws.

(Sorry, no pictures of the process. Jamie got excited and did the job while I was out of town)

But I can share the beautiful results.

Now, this part is purely optional, but we wanted all the moisture proofing we could get in there, so Jamie painted all the seams with a moisture barrier.

Red Guard – Waterproofing and Crack Prevention Membrane

This stuff ain’t cheap. (Nothing on this remodel has been, BTW)

50 bucks a gallon.

It starts out soooo…………….pink.

And it dries down to a painfully harsh red…….Which I hate so incredibly much.

I just keep hearing Todd Flanders saying, “RED ROOM, RED ROOM” to his index finger.

Good thing there’s tile to go over it all,

…and not red tile.

Wouldn’t y’all just love to know what color we picked?

We’d love to show you.

Stay tuned….our tile selection is coming up.