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BEJ
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Re: Another DIY question

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Nice work, those leveling devices are one of the greatest things to come along the past few years. Wish they we around on a few tile jobs I did where some "lippage" showed up.
nkwak
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Re: Another DIY question

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BEJ wrote:Nice work, those leveling devices are one of the greatest things to come along the past few years. Wish they we around on a few tile jobs I did where some "lippage" showed up.
Actually, those shims are far from perfect. There's still some slight lippage, though it's less than 1/16". My opinion is that they need to be wider so that .

Another thing that comes up is that you find yourself working against the clock so that the mortar gets harder to spread with the trawl after about an hour. I will confess that I also purchased a paint mixer which I could've used in that instance but I get into a groove and can't walk away once I'm making progress. Because the room was so small I found myself working in rows too, which set me up for lippage issues. I didn't want to "paint myself into a corner" and the result was those two tiles coming up was the result.
~ Neil
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Re: Another DIY question

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The contractors who threw my house together did a hatchet job on the medicine cabinet and my previous framing didn't cover the rough edges, which was bothering my wife. I ended up reframing the box with door framing. Pay no attention to the poor mitering; I'm a perpetual n00b with these things. -_-

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Re: Another DIY question

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I like the framing. Use some latex based caulking, which you can paint, and fill in the mitering booboos. Paint over it and you'll never know that the mitering isn't perfect.
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