Foyer & The Joys of Slate Tiles

The next job we tackled was the foyer. It was boring and bland with porcelain tiles and white walls:
Here, Jay discusses what he'd like to do:


First item on the list was removing the tiles which we removed from the both the foyer and kitchen. The tiles themselves weren't too difficult but scraping the mortar was terrible. We won't do this again without power tools.

Jay had the job of measuring the tile cuts - an exacting job that I don't really like. So I was left wearing a plastic bag and freezing on the balcony cutting the tiles with a wet saw. It's pretty laughable but this is our reality in all its bare-bones form.

There's a lot of work that goes in to dealing with slate. You have to wash them, cut them, wash the cut ones again, lay them, wash them, seal them, seal them again, grout them, wash and wash and wash again to get the grout off, and then maybe apply another coat of sealer/colour enhancer.

Kitchen floor before:

Kitchen floor after:

Foyer before:

Foyer after: