Hi new to this forum. Thought I would post my latest weekend project with pictures and a little DIY info.
So this is the finished product!
I have a 2 car garage with a tandem going double length on the left side. I decided to paint and tile the tandem spot as I is my work space for tools and lawn equipment.
I stared by clearing EVERYTHING from the work space floor and walls. Then I did a good sweeping and degreasing of floors. While the ground was drying for 4 hrs I got to work striping the wall for my 3 tone color.
I had a few problems gettin the line straight at first... I tried measuring from the floor up and putting dash marks every 10-12" then connecting all the lines with a straight edge. But found out halfway down 1 wall this wasn't a straight line at all...
2nd effort was much of the same as I tried measuring from the ceiling down thinking this would give me a more true line... FAIL. Same result as before.
So finally, as I should have down from The beginning, I used a bubble level to make a line around the 3 walls. The line came out noticeably straighter.
So once the line was drawn I taped off the segments with frog tape, which is AWESOME! it gave me super clean lines after I pealed it away. So I taped inside the line where I painted the red stripe for both the dark and light grey's... Then went to town and put 2 coats of each grey on and pealed the frog tape off about 10 min after the 2nd coats were applied.
At this point I had dark grey/white/light grey on the wall I let that dry over night and in the meantime started on the tile project...
So first off I decided to do a checkerboard VCT tile on the flooring in the workspace on the garage floor. I originally wanted to go with a black/white but the guy at home depot convinced me the white would get dirty fast in there and show scratches more visibly then a darker tile. So I went with a red/charcoal combination. The only supplies I needed for this project was 4 cases of tile (2 red, 2 charcoal) VCT adhesive, and a 1/16" troll, a T square, and a utility knife.
So typically you would chalk line down the middle of the floor and cut tile at both ends equally.... But I decided since I had benches and tools covering the edges I would just start at the left front side and end with cut pieces at the right and back of the edges.
Laying down the adhesive us pretty easy and straight forward. Troll out a thin layer the length of the floor about 2 tiles wide and then go back over it with the 1/16 edge. The glue takes about 20 mins to setup to a tacky consistency. Till you can touch and no glue transfers. Now your ready to start laying tile.
Start with a T square to make sure the first 4 squares are straight then lay out the remaining till you reach the edge you need to trim. I waited till the end to trim all my tile pieces. With this glue you have a few hours to actually lay the tile down. So waiting till the end for the edges didn't hurt anything.
Once one row is laid straight you can troll out the rest of the floor with glue and let it setup for 20 min. When laying the remaining tiles I worked on top of the first set of tiles.
Once done with the full tile I worked around the floor cutting and placing the remaining tiles. Line up the tile agains the edge and on top of the full tiles and mark the cut point. Then T square a straight line on the tile with a utility knife and bend an snap off the piece you need. They break with a clean edge.
Once Done, I walked over every square inch of the seems to press and spread the adhesive evenly. Then I got a cloth and wiped up any glue that squeezed through the seems. Side note: this glue is very sticky and will ruin everything you are wearing! Dress accordingly. Dawn dish soap work great to get off your hands... And face in my situation as I was sweeting my a$$ of and accidentally kept rubbing glue on my face. .
Back to the painting... The following day I re-taped the lines... This time I put the tape one the new paint and made a straight. Edge with the tape. If you are going to overlap do it on the new paint otherwise you will have white patches showing on the finished product.
I put 7 coats of red on only because I had enough paint to do so. But 3-4 should be sufishant.
That's about it. I waited another day to move all the things back in and on the walls. But I very happy with this project and think it's fairly simple with a little know how.
Hope you like my post
So this is the finished product!
I have a 2 car garage with a tandem going double length on the left side. I decided to paint and tile the tandem spot as I is my work space for tools and lawn equipment.
I stared by clearing EVERYTHING from the work space floor and walls. Then I did a good sweeping and degreasing of floors. While the ground was drying for 4 hrs I got to work striping the wall for my 3 tone color.
I had a few problems gettin the line straight at first... I tried measuring from the floor up and putting dash marks every 10-12" then connecting all the lines with a straight edge. But found out halfway down 1 wall this wasn't a straight line at all...
2nd effort was much of the same as I tried measuring from the ceiling down thinking this would give me a more true line... FAIL. Same result as before.
So finally, as I should have down from The beginning, I used a bubble level to make a line around the 3 walls. The line came out noticeably straighter.
So once the line was drawn I taped off the segments with frog tape, which is AWESOME! it gave me super clean lines after I pealed it away. So I taped inside the line where I painted the red stripe for both the dark and light grey's... Then went to town and put 2 coats of each grey on and pealed the frog tape off about 10 min after the 2nd coats were applied.
At this point I had dark grey/white/light grey on the wall I let that dry over night and in the meantime started on the tile project...
So first off I decided to do a checkerboard VCT tile on the flooring in the workspace on the garage floor. I originally wanted to go with a black/white but the guy at home depot convinced me the white would get dirty fast in there and show scratches more visibly then a darker tile. So I went with a red/charcoal combination. The only supplies I needed for this project was 4 cases of tile (2 red, 2 charcoal) VCT adhesive, and a 1/16" troll, a T square, and a utility knife.
So typically you would chalk line down the middle of the floor and cut tile at both ends equally.... But I decided since I had benches and tools covering the edges I would just start at the left front side and end with cut pieces at the right and back of the edges.
Laying down the adhesive us pretty easy and straight forward. Troll out a thin layer the length of the floor about 2 tiles wide and then go back over it with the 1/16 edge. The glue takes about 20 mins to setup to a tacky consistency. Till you can touch and no glue transfers. Now your ready to start laying tile.
Start with a T square to make sure the first 4 squares are straight then lay out the remaining till you reach the edge you need to trim. I waited till the end to trim all my tile pieces. With this glue you have a few hours to actually lay the tile down. So waiting till the end for the edges didn't hurt anything.
Once one row is laid straight you can troll out the rest of the floor with glue and let it setup for 20 min. When laying the remaining tiles I worked on top of the first set of tiles.
Once done with the full tile I worked around the floor cutting and placing the remaining tiles. Line up the tile agains the edge and on top of the full tiles and mark the cut point. Then T square a straight line on the tile with a utility knife and bend an snap off the piece you need. They break with a clean edge.
Once Done, I walked over every square inch of the seems to press and spread the adhesive evenly. Then I got a cloth and wiped up any glue that squeezed through the seems. Side note: this glue is very sticky and will ruin everything you are wearing! Dress accordingly. Dawn dish soap work great to get off your hands... And face in my situation as I was sweeting my a$$ of and accidentally kept rubbing glue on my face. .
Back to the painting... The following day I re-taped the lines... This time I put the tape one the new paint and made a straight. Edge with the tape. If you are going to overlap do it on the new paint otherwise you will have white patches showing on the finished product.
I put 7 coats of red on only because I had enough paint to do so. But 3-4 should be sufishant.
That's about it. I waited another day to move all the things back in and on the walls. But I very happy with this project and think it's fairly simple with a little know how.
Hope you like my post