Kitchen Assemblage Day 3

I wasn't happy with the last few tiles I laid yesterday. They sounded hollow when tapped. I think I had left the adhesive out too long (it only has a 20 minute life once mixed) so it didn't stick to the tiles. 

Thankfully the hollow tiles lifted without breaking and I scraped the adhesive from the floor. In the small patches that the adhesive had stuck, it brought up a bit of the concrete so I resealed that too.

Then it was just a case of getting back into a rhythm. Tracy kept me well supplied...

I changed tactics with the mixing of the adhesive. Yesterday I just kept topping it up but I found that it wasn't lasting long. Today I scraped the bucket out each time which worked far better.

And that's it really. Just mixing a bucket of adhesive (so glad I bought a mixing paddle for my drill), slapping it on the floor, combing it to the right height, wiggling a tile or two into place and repeat. Until, 26(ish) tiles later:

Still have to do a load of tile cutting and I need to build some floor up where there are gaps by the doors. I'm hoping that, like grouting, it's a time consuming but less energetic process than laying the tiles.