This weekend was an eventful weekend in the Younker household. We dry-fitted tile. We set a shower pan. We laid tile down. We grouted. And we watched as some guys froze their butts off to hang our siding.
First up. The tile.
A couple weeks ago Ted’s dad, Ted and I put in the backer board in the hall bathroom and the laundry room in preparation for the tile.
Backer board going in the laundry room a couple weeks ago
This weekend we had a crew in our house to help us with the tile. Ted’s parents, our brother-in-law Chris, and us. This girl isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. In fact, I love these types of products. It’s a great sense of accomplishment when it’s all over, even though it seems to take forever!!
Ted’s dad dry-fitted the tile in the hall bathroom. And then each tile was labeled so that we knew exactly where that piece of tile went when we mortared it down. I helped him with this part. The bathroom was so little it wasn’t big enough for more than one person so I got the hard job of handing tile to him and mixing more mortar!
Dry-fitting the tile. The tile is mortared down (you can see our labels)
On Monday, Diane and I had the day off (in observance of Veteran’s Day). Ted (Ted’s dad) is retired so he has every day off. So we came back on Monday and grouted the hall bathroom and laundry room. And wiped it clean.
The grout is in. The tile was pretty filmy. I was nervous that the grout was too dark and not the color I wanted. In the second picture you can see how it lightened up and looks great!
The laundry room got the same treatment. Chris and Diane dry-fitted the tile in the laundry room. And then we mortared them down. Ted’s dad and Chris both worked on getting the tile down so it went pretty quickly.
Dry-fitted Tile and mortar
The grout is in!
I love the way it all turned out. I am so grateful for the help we had in this project. Without them we never would have gotten all this done in a weekend. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Next up – the master bathroom.
While we were working on the hall bathroom and laundry room, Ted was busy in the master bathroom working on installing the bathtub and pouring the shower pan. Again, we had some help with this project from our good friend Josh.
Ted mixing up the…whatever he used… for the shower pan
The shower pan is poured! Letting it set before we put the membrane on it
My tub is set! I’m so excited to use this thing. It would have come in handy after the weekend working at the house. My muscles were aching!
And we got the backer board down on the floor of the master bathroom. We are ready to tile!
Last but not least – the siding. It’s up! And it looks awesome!
You may remember when I mentioned earlier that we went with James Hardie cement board siding in Iron Gray. We love it. The white trim really helps make it pop!
The areas that do not have siding on them will have stone. Hopefully that will be in the next couple weeks. Hopefully before this Nebraska weather turns too cold. 
There is our house. It’s moving along. Each week we get closer to having it all finished! We are crossing our fingers that we’ll be able to move into the house in about 8-10 weeks.
Next on the agenda: tiling the master bathroom, pouring the driveway and patio, and exterior stone. The trim carpenter is suppose to come in the next couple weeks to get started on installing cabinets, trim, install interior doors and work on our closets and locker for the mudroom. Then it’ll start really looking like a house on the inside!
And because she’s too cute not to share, Rainey enjoyed sitting on the porch watching everything going on around her.
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