Tile work

Recently our pretty new bathroom floor developed a blemish. I used an Airwick plugin which leaked, and whatever they put in the formula is strong enough to ruin a vinyl floor. It bubbled up, and when I fiddled with it, the top layer came off.

Even though this was behind the toilet, it had to be fixed. I had glued down each tile, so I knew there was glue under the whole thing. I researched on-line how to remove tiles. After looking at several options, I decided to use a hot iron, with a damp cloth in-between, to loosen the glue, then pry it up gently with a little putty knife. I gathered my tools together and then, before heating the iron, I pushed the tip of the knife in at the edge of the tile. And the whole thing just popped up! 

For a moment I was of two minds; 
  (1) Yeah, that was easy!  
  (2) .... but I did the research, I got the tools, I was ready.

I quickly dropped the second thought and rejoiced that I didn't have to sweat over it. The next step was to cut a new piece. I had saved a few tiles from the original job so I already had tiles to work with. I have never liked the small bit of tile at the end of the floor grate - it didn't hug the wall enough. The wall has a curve in it (flimsy material) and when I did the job the first time I didn't compensate for that. But since I didn't have to do a lot of work to pry the tiles up, I had plenty of time to fix it. The section I didn't like was part that the grate sits on. That particular tile was a total pain to do originally because of the odd curve around the door trim. It took me several tries to get it acceptable and I wasn't going to do that part again, so I just replaced the very end section. I need to pretty up the lines between the tiles, put some paintable caulk along the edge by the wall and paint the caulk blue, but it already looks better.