We have a new tile installer hired to do the flooring.  Tile STEVE!  Not to be confused with cabinet installer Steve.  There is a national tile association that sets standards and they offer some product names that one can use over cut-back tar adhesives so we are moving forward with the option of a primer. Now, if the idiots at Home Depot could just get the correct tile order delivered to our house, without any more problems, by Tuesday, then we will still be on track for cabinet installation to start Feb 4th.  I can’t imagine being without a kitchen for a full month but it will be about that before I have running water out there again.  gulp.  Anyone who knows me please take my warning to hide very seriously!  Living in mountainous piles of crap stacked all over the place from empting rooms for tiles has me about ready to explode.  Ode to those TV renovations where a mere 60 minutes later a dump is magically turned into paradise, making me believe that I could survive the process too.  Those shows are all lies, I tell you… LIES!