Archive for August, 2011

Friday, August 19th, 2011

I just spent the day at the Home Depot to try and find some tile for my kitchen and pantry. Contrary to what you might think there is not a great deal to chose from, the reason being the new laminated flooring that looks like hardwood. They had so many boxes of the flooring that I was surprised. When I found the ceramic tile they had quite a bit of tile, but I needed a greenish tint and there was not one tile to be had. From there I went to Menards and to tell the truth they had less than Home Depot. I was going to have to put this down myself and I needed some instructions. I asked one of the associates if he could help me and he was very courteous and asked what I needed to know. I told him I had a small kitchen that I wanted to cover with ceramic tile and I did not know what I needed to do the job, or how to to do the job, and they did not have the color of tile I had to have. We went again to look at the tile and sure enough there was not what I wanted. I told him I had to have what matched the rest of the kitchen and I obviously I had to get it else where. But I asked him if he would tell me how to install the tile? He told me it was pretty easy, except for cutting the pieces that fit around the door. OH-OH. This was something I had given no thought to.I asked how did you cut the ceramic, he said you needed a tool that cuts tile, this sounded bad. The machine was kind of expensive, maybe I should think of using another tile. I asked if the store did these sort of jobs, he said absolutely. They are coming to measure on Monday, I think I made the right decision.