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   geob21 | Feb 26, 2004 05:27am | #1

   What are you using as a base?

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   FastEddie1 | Feb 26, 2004 05:47am | #2

   I have done one shower enclosure, and have one suggesstion:  keep your mouth closed when you grout.

   Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

   The craftsman formerly known as elCid

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   davidmeiland | Feb 26, 2004 05:54am | #3

   I saw a couple of guys set a marble lid in a shower. They had cut a batch of springpoles out of 1" x 1" fir, about an inch longer than the floor the ceiling distance. They'd put up a tile and the spring a pole into place under it. If you don't make the pole plumb it will 'push' the tile out of alignment. Slow and steady wins that race.

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   UncleDunc | Feb 26, 2004 05:55am | #4

   The very idea of large tile on the ceiling makes my skin crawl. I get this little movie playing in my head where I'm bending over the sink admiring my nostril hairs, and WHAM, get a big tile edge on in the back of my neck. I'm too young to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair.

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   FastEddie1 | Feb 26, 2004 05:58am | #5

   You can't be that young if you're looking at nostril hairs.  Ear hairs too?Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

   The craftsman formerly known as elCid

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   UncleDunc | Feb 26, 2004 06:02am | #6

   >> You can't be that young if you're looking at nostril hairs.

   Don't matter, I'll still feel the same way at 95.

   >> Ear hairs too?

   I think so, but I still haven't tracked down a sideways mirror so I can check.

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   FastEddie1 | Feb 26, 2004 06:30am | #7

   You don't need no sideways mirror.  A wife or daughter...Daddy!  What's that growing out of your ears?!  Ugh!Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

   The craftsman formerly known as elCid

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   davidmeiland | Feb 26, 2004 08:37am | #9

   "You can't be that young if you're looking at nostril hairs.  Ear hairs too?"

   What about jowls?

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   JeffBuck | Feb 26, 2004 06:35am | #8

   just rig up a brace for over nite ...

   if the thinset's mixed right .. they stick better up there than on a wall ...

   Do the ceiling first ... run some ledgers around the perimeter ...and across the open front ... about a fat 3/4 down from the bottom edge of the tile/thinset ...

   lay in cross braces as you go .. 1x2 .. 1x3 ... on the flat .....then... shim up snug.

   Have extra tiles ... wear a hardhat .....

   and keep plenty of bandaids and super glue on hand ....

   Jeff

   Buck Construction   Pittsburgh,PA

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