Day Five-seventy-five: a touch more tile

So almost a month ago we previewed this job (scroll to the bottom)--creating a new countertop and sink for the garage. We had torn out the ratty, 30-year-old one when we were looking for a leak in the garage. That was back in February when the water pipe to the garage froze and burst. Today was another adventure in ThinSet, which is one of the messier projects you can imagine.

Step one was to cut our piece of 3/4 inch plywood to the right dimensions. The straight cuts on the side were a breeze with the table saw but making the donut hole part where the sink will sit required a little fancy jigsaw work.

Then we cut some drywall to match the plywood because it makes a better base on which to lay the tile.

Next came the tiling itself. These are Mexican tiles from the same place we got the ones we used in the basement bathroom. We had cut these a couple weeks back so the tiling went pretty quickly.

We'll grout the counter tomorrow and once that's done we can drop this stainless steel job into place and wait for the rest of the garage to be redone and brought up the standard of the new sink.