Quick update: no go on the tile
December 18th, 2008 by jack
Last night I wrote that if all goes well our tile order will be complete by noon today. This morning, the installer almost doubled his labor cost, so we canned it. We would rather be without tile for a while than to allow the cost of this project to increase any more. So now we’re not sure when, or if, we’ll have a tile backsplash, which is too bad but I think the right decision.
We’ll be looking at quotes from other installers, but I’m not optimistic. If anyone knows a good, inexpensive tile installer, please let us know.
How about you guys install it yourselves? A backsplash shouldn’t be too hard. Chris and I did glass mosaic tiles in our bathroom; the money we saved on labor we spent on tile and it ended up coming out really nice. Hey, we have a wet saw you can borrow! (And some advice about working with epoxy grout: move fast!)