Idea to tile floor from Marble sample

It starts with a want. Which transfers into a "need" to tile a floor.

Sometimes it's a begin with an inspiring sample selection piece of stone tile material. In this case, white and blue marble. In an offset Chevron layout pattern. Dry-layed down at door threshold after coming home from Home Depot.

Apartment renters ask landlord if they can tile floor

Got the okay from Leaseholder to tile mud room floor at back door entry. After landlord approved tile installation in 1950s home on lower East side of Manchester, New Hampshire.

After a Jan/Feb of record breaking cold and snowfall in 2025. Carpet near in ruins. Pulled up, dust and staples a flying. Old material rolled and set in basement under stairs.

These tiles. They were going to be something. But first:

The prep work before tiling

Underneath that carpet the tongue-in-groove subfloor over Fir basement rafters. It was bouncy. Needed stability. Screws into framing. HydroBan primer over plank. Mortar combed with a 3/8" notch trowel. 1/4" Durock stomped on. And then screwed with inch and an eighth John Mansville GoBoard fasteners. Seams mudded, taped. And then the leftover mortar skim-coat the surface of CBU (cement backerboard unit.)

It was work. But Tim and Travis with Five Star Flooring out of Raymond, New Hampshire did a phenomenal job with setting me up.

As we used to say at Manchester Red Robin BOH kitchen line: "Aces in their spaces. Prepared for success. Lunch can wait."

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