"bonbon" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:45:40 +0700, "badwilson"
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"bonbon" wrote in message
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I freeze my butt off. It's been rather chilly here in Houston
lately,
and although I'm actually a seamstress, for the past 6 months or
so,
I've been installing marble flooring and just recently began
working
with natural slate also. It's pretty cold running that wet saw
outside in 35 degree temperatures, but it's very gratifying work
at
the end. (Well, aside from the callouses, broken off
fingernails,
and
rather embarrassing arm muscles.)

-bonbon

Arm muscles are not embarrassing. I lift weights every second day
in
order to get as many muscles as possible. Muscles are a "good
thing"!

It's a bummer though when you put on a nice blouse, go into the
bathroom to fix the hair and upon bending and raising your arms,
split
the seams in the sleeves.

Yes, that's true. They don't seem to make clothes for athletic women
with muscles. It's even worse here in Thailand where all women are
these rail thin waifs of under 100 lbs with no boobs. I have a hard
enough time finding something that fits across the chest, then it's
usually too tight around the shoulders and arms too. I wear a lot of
tank tops ;-)

Dennis used to moonlight as a tile layer in the winters. He tiled
a
bunch of new high-rise condos in downtown Vancouver. He learned
how
to do it so well, we tore all the carpet out of our brand new condo
before even moving in and tiled the whole place. It was awesome,
but
hard work!.

We got 40% off the price of the tiles too because he
worked in the industry.

That's always a nice bonus. The price of tile adds up quickly when
you start figuring your square footage. Especially with some of the
$5 or $6/sq. ft. marble. Then, include all the mud, marble sealer
and
cleaner, grout, floor tools........Yep, definitely nice to find the
tile at 40% off.

Yes, for sure. We didn't realize that he would get a discount through
his employer but when he told him that we were going to tile our own
place, he said just mention my name at the front desk at any tile
store in Vancouver and you'll get 40% off. Woo hoo! We were so happy
:-)

I found some Cream Jade marble on sale, and bought a bunch of it.
It's still all in the boxes, stacked neatly in the garage
though.........by the time I get home from work, I'm too exhausted
to
even think about more work, even if it is for our own house.

Yes, I can see that you wouldn't want to keep doing the same thing at
home that you do at work all day. Especially something as tiring as
tiling. I remember how exhausted I was after only 4 days of doing our
condo. And your knees get so sore!
--
Britta
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