Start-stop DIY flooring job

It has been over 30 days since I purchased the floor tiles and I'd say the job is 95% done. I ran out of grout and was laid low by food poisoning on Monday and only managed to get my supplies today from Jusco Home Centre in 1 Utama. Know what? Jusco's prices for many DIY items are even lower than the mom-pop shops in Petaling Jaya. Plus i get to swipe my Jusco card and accumulate points too.

Anyhow here is the room (pic) as at today. The white stuff is the excess grout that needs to be cleaned off. It should be complete by this Friday, hopefully.

DIY Installing Floor Tiles

I felt it was time I fixed the water damaged parquet (I hate parquet) floor in our study and so I purchased 6 cartons (16 pcs per ctn) of homogeneous floor tiles from Kimgress Sale (25% discount) on October 16th but spent most of the past two weeks leveling the damaged area of our study. I only worked on it for about 10 hours in all. I had earlier thought about laminated flooring but it would cost over RM700 and that's just material cost. The tiles only cost RM216 and I hope I can pull this off. The tiles weighed over 130 kg and it was a quite a task pushing the hand truck to the lift and into our home in one go.

Today I got hold of a tile cutter and began cutting the tiles to fit into the 'odd-sized' edges. I was well pleased the cutting went well as I have never done this kind of DIY before.