Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Removing new floor tiles in shower

I let my wife tile the shower floor over my new mud bed, and some of the tiles are not level with the ajoining tile - some corners stick up, and being that they are 2x2 marble, this will be hard on the feet. I am not happy with her, with all of the work i went through. How should I proceed?

Options:

1. Remove offending tile and replace. How do I do this?
2. Using a Dremel, round off the corner and edges.
Other?


Also, She didn't clean the thinset from between a few of the tiles. How should I remove it? Should i use my Dremel?

I am not happy with her, with all of the work i went through. Maybe she requires closer supervision in the future.:)

Your lucky, you can sand marble. Use an orbital sander and go over the whole thing and you can get it as smooth as you like. In fact, show your wife how an orbital sander works.:)

I'm still stuck on that phrase where he said he "LET her do the shower floor!

Hi Bud:)

Some guys are just generous like that until something goes wrong.:D :D :D


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Bud - Thanks for your help. I have an orbital sander. What type of sandper should I use?

Sorry, didn't mean to sound sexist. What started out as "our" project quickly became "my" project. I've been doing about 90% of the work, and I've been working 20 hour weekends for the last 2 months. I got talked into a tiled shower pan, and it's been a real chore. If we had gone with a prefab, i would be done with the entire bathroom already. I still need to tile the rest of the shower, paint the room, rip up the old tile floor, hardibacker, tile and grout the bathroom floor, plus finish work.

Usually my wife is meticulous, but she did a less than stellar job of laying the tile - something she has done before. With all the time and effort I put into building the shower base, I'm a little steamed that she created more work.

An orbital sander should work. A belt sander could be quicker and more direct but any slope may pose a problem for a belt sander.

Typically the only sandpaper readily available to the general public is aluminum oxide...it will work but silicon carbide would be much much better if you could find it. Just depends on where you are.

I think I would start with an 80 or 100 grit and go from there, probably finishing with a 220. You'll just have to experiment on the grits, you can't hurt the stone.:)

Around our house with my wife giving the orders it is always "we gotta do this" and "we gotta do that" when in fact what she really means is "Bud go do it". I learned a long time ago, Bud should just go do it anyway and learn to follow orders.

For example; for years I mowed this acreage with a less than cheap riding mower inherited from my mother in law. It was a piece of crap but it worked. It started, it ran, it cut. My wife wouldn't have anything to do with the damned thing, it was beneath her and just way too ugly to even sit on, and besides that, it didn't have a cupholder.

Two years ago I bought a new garden tractor mower with all the bells and whistles. (Bright shinny fire engine red.) That's a good thing 'cause I haven't been able to get her off of this new one since I bought it. She actually likes to mow now. It's a good thing she does because this gives me time to repair the chit she runs over.

She has hit (multiple times) every damned downspout on the house. She don't just hit 'em, SHE DESTROYS 'EM! She wrecked the propane line. She has mowed four young pine trees. She bent a mower blade running over a high concrete stoop that didn't ever require mowing. Broke off a fence post once but it was 20% rotten at ground level anyway. I won't even get into the destruction of the tomato plants, THAT was a real pisser. Then there was the time she ran head-long into the low hanging cedar trees and was almost brushed to the ground by the limbs. Took the two of us to pull the mower out of the trees.

Yes sir, I don't know what I'd do without her.:wall:

Bmichel, that was very kind of you to apologize, and though not necessary still appreciated. It was easy to tell from your post you are stressed and I shouldn't have teased you about your choice of words.

Bud, does your wife read this stuff?

Anyway, back to the tile...bmichel, could you possibly upload a picture to Picasa or photobucket?


And yes, you can use the Dremel to remove the excess grout from between the tiles. An old flathead screwdriver works just about as well.

Wow, yours is way worse than mine. Mine doesn't usually wreck stuff, and she does quality work. That's why i trusted her with this.

BTW, what should I use with the orbital sander to sand the tiles?

Any help with this?

If you have a Google account, you can use Picasa. If not, go to photobucket.com. Directions to upload can be found on both.

BTW, what should I use with the orbital sander to sand the tiles?

Did you miss this.

Typically the only sandpaper readily available to the general public is aluminum oxide...it will work but silicon carbide would be much much better if you could find it. Just depends on where you are.

I think I would start with an 80 or 100 grit and go from there, probably finishing with a 220. You'll just have to experiment on the grits, you can't hurt the stone.

My wife cant do none of this stuff but I'll tell you she is one hell of a cook and boy can she clean and do the laundry. Connie dont start - I dont wanna hear it.:)

Did you mean upload to the forum? You can just post the link here, or when you post, use the icon for insert image. (Right above where you type...looks like a mountain)

I think the cupholder is very distracting at times.:)

Bud - sounds like getting the lawn cut is starting to get a little expensive.:)

Hey whats in the cupholder anyway.:)