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Applying Mortar Scratch Coat for Shower Wall Tiles

Bob visits with Mike Bennet, who is floating mortar bed walls in a bathroom. Starting with 15# felt paper then expanded diamond metal lathe held on by galvanized nails. In one of the common occurrences in construction the entire shipment of the tile did not arrive at the same time.
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Applying Mortar Scratch Coat for Shower Wall Tiles

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" Boy this looks like a real open. Obviously got going here dancers hired remembered that Tenet -- you -- on time ago you start -- built yeah felt paper right. Yeah he's the felt paper first. And then we that's a fifteen pound felt paper than we -- TV two point five diamond -- expand and -- Yes and that's Obama galvanized roofing -- correct we -- about forty -- and then we overlap each sheet about two inches approximately yeah so everything's going to begin reminiscences. Forever real solid stuff. This is that what about the mixed. -- here we have up our scratch coat which is what we're doing right now we have a three to one -- we have. Three parts sand here in one part Portland cement with. Of course the water is there really totally getting into -- appeal and discount gauge you give me -- like this you can get a feel -- you do quite a while occasionally. Go ahead. Fun to watch for it. Is there is a certain. In the flick of the -- here. That you only get through practice feeling you know. That looks good -- you don't. And here."

" Got a thousand amount Mexico yesterday. And I've been going against what dependent we have for that shower they're not discoveries. That. The architect of and a great job and is resistant to complicated how tough love how the you really heated tile scheduled this more than just as scheduled materials -- actual drawing right that is in the back of that parallel inequity Fred. And what I guess what I discovered is that we're missing yet little blue dots. That -- royal blue like the border here. It will inset in these areas here and I discovered that we can get those in the in the delivery yesterday. Yeah."

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