LOOK AT THE NEW TOY. . . Henro, eat your hear out!

[Bob_Skurka]

Gary
The "stone river" is a section that looks like a meandering stream that is cut out of the tile. I inlayed cut river rocks and then set them into blue grout. The shower floor is also made of the blue grouted river rocks, they "spill out" of the shower and make a "stream" across the floor. No actual water flows with the "stream."

What should have been a 2 or 3 day tile job lasted 8 days. Cutting the curves was much harder than anticipated.

When the grout went down tan field grout was laid down first. After it dried, the the cut river stones were glued into place and then all the tan tile and tan grout was masked off because the blue grout had a staining effect on everything it touched, including skin!

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Gary
Here is a picture of the shower. I still have to get a shower door!

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Gary
Here is a closer shot of the stream showing the individual rocks. Each rock had to be cut smooth on 2 sides to lay flat and they are the same thickness of the surrounding tile.

 

[robertm]

I thought we had Frank Lloyd Wright here on TBN reincarnating "Falling Water". This is something I've always wanted to do in my next house... ever since a friend of mine built his "Lake Shack". It has a flagstone bridge inside the living room that you must cross over to get to the fireplace to light it. The fireplace is built into the rock wall, and water is running down the rock wall to feed the stream, or moat, below. Cool. Then there is a balcony inside to the second level, which has a leopard on the handrail looking down on a lioness dragging a zebra out from under the split stairways. Should have married the daughter when I had the chance!

 

[Bob_Skurka]

I wish it was a real stream!

And I am trying to figure out how to do something like that by cutting apart part of one of my porches. I have a covered porch that is 15 by 32 overlooking a steep hill on 2 sides, I'd often thought of putting a small pond on the uphill side of my driveway (100 feet away), and running a stream right to the edge of the drive, then starting it at the other side of the drive, across the lawn and through the porch, with a glass floor under the dining table, then having it exit the other side as a waterfall into another pond below.

But my TO DO list is so long already that I'm not sure that will ever happen.

The slope in my front yard would allow me to do it with no problem, the problem is finding the time to tear out the lawn, build the ponds, install the pumps, etc. I figure that would be a good summer long project!

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> I wish it was a real stream! </font>

We've had that problem a time or two here in our bathroom...
Darn those 1.6 gallon toilets! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[robertm]

That would be neat! I visited a subdivision on Rib Mountain in Wausau, Wisconsin where the developer took a spring/stream that started at the top of the mountain, and redirected it through most everyones front yard as it came down the mountain. What a sight. Worth the visit. I can't remember exactly where on Rib Mountain it was, but I'm sure the locals would help visitors out to find it.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I wish it was a real stream! </font>

We've had that problem a time or two here...
Darn those 1.6 gallon toilets! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif )</font>


LOL. . . when congress passed the law on the 1.6 gallon toilets I bought 3 of the 3.5 gallon units and put them away for future use! The toilet in one of the pictures above has been in storage for over 10 years, it flushes 3.5 gallons at a time. When we built this house, we had 3 bathrooms, 2 have the 3.5 gallon units and one had a 1.6 gallon unit so we could pass the inspection and get an occupancy permit. That 1.6 gallon toilet has clogged up more in one month than all the other toilets combined in nearly 10 years of living there! And last week the float broke in that 1.6 gallon unit so instead of fixing it I just ordered a new toilet with a pressure tank to replace that original 1.6 gallong unit, I am tired of using a plunger!!!!!!!!

 

[OkeeDon]

Let's do the math. The old toilets were 3.5 gallons. The new ones are 1.6. Almost every time, it has to be flushed a second time, so that's 3.2 gallons. Often enough, it has to be flushed a third time, making it 4.8. The average is probably somewhere around 3.7. Wonderful savings...

About your blue grout staining everything -- we once did an outdoor kitchen for a customer who requested white tile counter top with teal grout. That grout got everywhere. The guys who worked on the job had to throw away their tee-shirts. When the job was finished, there was more than half a bag of grout left over. It went in the nearest construction dumpster so fast it would have made your head spin. From that day on, we claimed we never heard of teal -- or blue -- grout.

 

[Henro]

Bob,

I'm tired of eating my hear out!

After looking at your work, I decided to on my own add a "T" to the thread title and to start eating my heart out... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

You do good work... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif