Here I laid Miles and Miles of Terra Cotta Tile
This is the lower level as you come down the stairs from the
main lobby. The main lobby was also tiled in Terra Cotta.
My big project was the fountain in the lobby as you walk in through the front doors. A beautiful Rose' Marble. I can't seem to find any pictures of it. One of the pieces was shipped in with the wrong side polished and I had to fly back to the states to get materials to correct the issue.
Terra Cotta everywhere. The spacers between joints was 1/2" pieces of sheetrock !
A lot of my older pictures have water damage. Terra Cotta came in from Mexico and was raw unfinished stone. The tiles
had to be soaked in water over night and then 2 coats of a sealer were rolled on them before they could be set.
By the way ... this was a renovation job so the hotel never closed. Grout was mixed 50 lbs. at a time and instead of a sponge for cleaning up the excess grout, wet blankets were pulled across the grouted tile. It was an imense time saver
working on such large areas with such wide grout joints.
After the grout dried, it was buffed and a third coat of sealer was rolled on the grouted tilework.
They even had me tile the old W. W. II Gunnery post that the
only access was down that long winding set of stairs. What a
challenge carrying materials down to this site was ! ! !
A Couple of Local Projects
A POOL PROJECT
The colors are off in this picture. It was faded and I tried to
correct them ... but you still get the general idea. The work is the blue tile around the perimeter of the pool. The diamond
shaped tile has a raised conk shell print in it.
Now you have to keep in mind that water is an expensive commodity on St. Thomas and the pool was full prior to doing the work. So .... we drained the pool down a foot and I proceeded to do all of the work from inside the pool, on a raft.
Yes an inflatable canvas type raft !!! I had it tied to railing and wherever I could as needed to keep it in position where I needed it to be and moved it as I went along.
Needless to say the home owner was thrilled with my resourceful thinking and he saved a lot of aggrevation not having to have about 4 water trucks come and deliver water
at some unreasonable cost.
A Bathroom Project
After tiling the bathroom I was asked to hang the accessories.
Little did I know that the squid and several other things that were ceramic has to be secured to the walls. There were no
hanging devices built into the squid so the area of tile was roughed up where the body of the squid is and marble epoxy
was what I used to hang the pieces of art. Another well satisfied customer.
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