Just Powers

There are crazy house-renovation goings-on in my world. Mike and I are working on the house he still owns in Pennsylvania, in an effort to get it ready to sell. I haven’t talked about it much because it is mostly incredibly boring. This past weekend however we put in a new tile floor in the kitchen that I just MUST tell you about.

We knew we had to replace the beat up white and gold linoleum with diamonds on it, but we weren’t sure exactly what to put in its place. Then on one of our many trips to Lowe’s we came across EDGE tile.

The miracle of modern technology! EDGE is basically pre-fabricated tile. No glue required, no spacers, and it is practically fool-proof. Two ceramic tiles are mounted on backerboard that locks together. You just lay out a foam underlayment, place the panels of tile on top and lock them together. When the whole thing is finished, grout with their cheese-whiz-like cans of grout, and voila! A new tile floor that you can walk on in an hour!

Now, to be fair, it took Mike and I six hours to do the 5′x9′ kitchen, and getting the panels of tile to line up perfectly was tricky at times. But overall, I think the time required was less and the fights we had were fewer than we would have had with traditional tile. We are so proud of ourselves we can hardly stand it.