tiling

Brand New Class! Tiling: Knowing Your Home

First Tiling Class: Tuesday, 9.20.22 // 5:30p-8:30p

This is our second class in our Knowing Your Home Series! Stay tuned for plumbing, drywall, painting, and more soon!

Tackling Tile, Porcelain with a Plan! Installing ceramic, porcelain, or glass tile to make a kitchen or bathroom pop. Learn to plan the project, buy what you need, and how to prep before you start mixing the mortar. Learn about substrates, surface prep, transition and border pieces, mastic, spacers, and grout. Learn about the proper tools including levels, and squares, trowels, and wetsaws. There will be time for Q&A at the end of class.

David Cooke grew up as the third generation of a construction family. He taught an eight-week basic home repair class several times each year for twelve years. He also wrote articles on home repair and improvement for a local magazine and appeared weekly on a television program in Boston as the "Resident Home Repair Guy" for two years. David has also run his own home repair and improvement business for most of the last 30 years.