Prime and Some Heat

The walls were smooth, all holes and seams filled and sanded, and were ready for priming. First we cleaned. How satisfying to get rid of the fine dust everywhere. For the previous few weekends Ben would finish the day looking like he'd had a light sprinkling of powdered sugar. No more! Here he's vacuuming up the last of it...

And beginning to prime.

It's such a different feel to have white walls! Very open and airy and much more finished looking.

We also intalled under the floor heat pads in the bathroom. It's electric wire embedded in mesh which will be attached to a thermostat on the wall. We can program it to turn on at 5am so on those cold winter mornings the tile will be all toasty warm when we get up. It only uses as much electricity as a 100 watt lightbulb.

After laying out the mat you pour cement over it, which is a good heat conductor. It was a challenge to keep it flat, but ben did a great job.

Next we tile...