It’s “Good Enough”

Graham may be the only one that rolls his eyes when he sees the title of this post.  However, for everyone else, I will fill you in on a bit on the joke – I despise when I hear this phrase while working on any type of project {why would you just leave something as “good enough” when you KNOW you can have it be better}.  With the latest task in the kitchen, however, I am actually the one that spit those words out of my mouth {in my defense, we could NOT make things better, the outcome was just not as “good” as I would have liked it to turn out}.

Our old home rocks, literally.  Well, at a minimum, it has rocked in the past {we hope the house has finished most of the settling it will do, but you never know}.  After the years of rockin’ and rollin’, the floors in our kitchen were left a little on the lop-sided side of things.

We did our best to try and level out the floors before tiling.  Although not perfect, I did end up getting to the point where I felt it was out of my hands and “good enough”.

{Graham has nicknamed himself “Wilson” given that I seem to always exclude his face from pictures.  Although not on purpose, I do find it funny that there is always only a small piece of him somewhere in the picture but you never really see his face}

The first step we took in attempting to get a decently level {and stronger} subfloor to tile on was to lay down cement backer board {this wasn’t really to make things more level, but rather give the self-leveling concrete a good base}.

Because the self-leveling concrete step was {quite} a process, I will save those nuggets of info for next time.

We pulled a TON of rusty nails out of the subfloor.  In trying to prevent this from happening again {rusty nails do not = good support}, we went with stainless steel and coated screws.  Both are meant to be in the elements {heat, water, cold, etc} of the outdoors, so we figured they were a good choice for an area that will have contact with water {bathroom and kitchen floors}.

Sidenote == I would just like to emphasize {or point out} that there has been no formal training or formal education completed here at West Street Story in the world of construction.  All of our DIY projects are based around our experiences with other DIY projects.  We do research online and ASK trained professionals, but are not trained ourselves {so, we probably look like complete fools doing some of these things and make things a million times harder on ourselves, but that is how we roll}.

After we had the cement backer board down, we mudded.  What I liked most about this mudding project?  NO SANDING AFTERWARDS!

And that’s all she wrote, folks.  Prior to pouring down the self-leveling concrete, we did apply a coat of Primer T {primer specifically meant to be put down and “seal” your surface in preparation for the concrete}.  Waiting for the mud and the primer to dry was actually the longest part of this process!