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Applying Mortar Scratch Coat for Shower Wall Tiles
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Applying Mortar Scratch Coat for Shower Wall Tiles
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" Boy this looks like a real old fashioned job that you got going in here."
" You got it, sure it is."
" I remember doing this kind of work in Miami, as I went with my dad a long time ago. You start out with the felt paper right?"
" Yeah, we use the felt paper first and then we, that's a 15 pound felt paper then we go to the 2.5 diamond lath, expanded metal lath."
" Yes, and that's nailed on with galvanized roofing nails."
" Correct. We try and get about 4 in each sheet and then we overlap each sheet about 2 inches approximately."
" Yeah."
" So everything is tied together on this end."
" This is forever, real solid stuff."
" This is it."
" What about the mix?"
" Our mix here we have for our scratch coming which is what we're doing right now."
" We have a 3 to 1 mix. We have 3 part sand here and 1 part Portland cement."
" And of course the water is really something you gotta kind of do by feel."
" You just kind of gauge it. You get a mix like this you can get a feel for it after you do it quite a while."
" Okay."
" You know where you're at."
" Go ahead and keep on doing it we'll watch for a minute. 'Cause there is a certain art in the flick of the wrist here, that you only get through practice in doing it over and over again. That looks good, Joe what are you up to over here?"
" Well Bob I've been checking the shipment, we just got our tiles in from Mexico yesterday."
" Mm-hmm."
" And I've been going against the pattern that we have for that shower there and I've discovering that..."
" The architecture you did a great job."
" [unk] sure it is."
" It's such a complicated tile draft throughout the house that you really need a tile schedule that's more than just a schedule of materials but actual drawings."
" Right."
" So this is the back of that shower. "
" That's the back we'd show..."
" Where the scratch put on."
" And what I've discovered is that we're missing, you have little blue dots they are the royal blue, like the border here that were inside in these areas here and I've discovered that we didn't get those in the delivery yesterday."
" Hmm."
