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Went over to the West Bank (Mickey, you know of what I speak) from New Orleans to a large flooring shop to pick up an order of ceramic tile for my son's bathroom and while waiting around for the order to be pulled, I started chatting up a group of Latino workers(I speak Spanish). I asked if they laid ceramic tile ( of course I knew the answer to that question before I even asked ). Then asked if they were busy and would they look at my job (I hate laying tile with a passion ). Well they did and the bottom line, they finished our project THAT NIGHT at midnight and grouted the next morning before sunup. Whew! Talk about hungry! They were from Honduras and were supporting their families here in the city.

Basically, Latinos have rebuilt our city. Not lazy, good artisans and fair pricing ( not cheap ).
 
I retiled both bathrooms, our kitchen and utility room - even the front porch. Once I learned how to do it right I was tiling everything I could! Now have decided to (one of these days) re-tile our master bath again. The first time I only tiled half and left the other half carpet but we've decided to do the whole thing in tile this time.
 
Bill -

We did several mission trips to Honduras, and Tony Barnhill and his wife, Jerri, tagged along with us for one of them. Down the street from the church we were working with was a small tile production outfit. We bought tiles "hot out of the oven", and laid 'em on an earlier trip. Got to watch them make some of our tiles. Fascinating process, that.
 
Basil said:
If you paid me a fair wage I would! I must be weird, but I actually enjoy doing stuff like that. I did the rest of my house in solid wood and laid every board myself.
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I believe that Winston Churchill loved brick-laying... found it relaxing.
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Bill -

We did several mission trips to Honduras, and Tony Barnhill and his wife, Jerri, tagged along with us for one of them. Down the street from the church we were working with was a small tile production outfit. We bought tiles "hot out of the oven", and laid 'em on an earlier trip. Got to watch them make some of our tiles. Fascinating process, that.
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We did similar with Wycliffe in Colombia, except it was blocks for walls.
They "made" them in their back yard.
Sort of like adobe, dug it out of the riverbank.

Pig tracks.

Right across the bricks before they dried.
When we laid the wall up, we carefully put the blocks in with the pig tracks going from one lower corner to the opposite upper corner.

Drove them crazy when they saw the finished (and dry) result.

Those were the dayz.
 
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