The Bead Board has a Case of the Mondays

Our tile set over Sunday night which meant we were high-tailing it home on Monday as soon as possible after work to install our toilet.  Toilet's are kinda realllly necessary in a 1 bathroom place.  To install our toilet meant we had to install the bead board we wanted around the toilet.  Hubs left work early to pick up materials from Home Depot.  I got a call around 3 that he was home and ready to install so I zipped home. 

I came home to find 6 4'x4' pieces of bead board ready, some adhesive, and first board ready to be installed.  We both were like 'we should definitely be done by 6:00'.  Little did we know that our bead board would have a case of the Monday's. 

Hubs cut holes in the bead board to fit around the toilet and sink connections.  At that point, once we knew it would fit correctly, we opened up the adhesive and used a trowel to skim it on the wall.  It was super wet and something just didn't seem right.  Hubs said that the Home Depot guy definitely said to use this so it should work.  We followed the instructions, but we had our doubts whether it would work correctly (looking back Hubs think he grabbed the wrong container in haste).

We pressed the first board on the wall and.... Nothing, no adhesion at all.  The board literally seemed like it was repelling away from the wall.  What!?!?  We re-read the instructions and though 'maybe we should let the adhesive set up some'.  So we pulled the board off the wall and attempted to let it cure until it got tacky.

Moving along, we applied this adhesive to every wall and cut all the rest of our boards to the correct dimensions ... on our dining room table.

We even went on a run and played with Grouper.  4 hours later, still nothing.  At that point, our patience had worn thin.  Hubs was ready to put this bead board into its place and got some nails/screws.  We used nails and screws, but they did not prevail either - they wouldn't penetrate through that first layer of pesky tile.

And that was it!  Hubs high-tailed it back to Home Depot, probably like Cruella Devil.  I ordered some Thai and scraped off all that adhesive from the wall.  Upon his return he had 3 tubes of Liquid Nails, some concrete screws, and concrete nails.  We chowed down and then returned to the bead board at about 8:00.  Hubs squeezed the liquid nail all over the board, we pressed it onto the wall ... and dun dun dun ... it sticked!  It was like a miracle.  We raced through the next several boards, used a few screws to hold it in place.  Now it just needs some good looking trim and several coats of paint.

Then it was time to reinstall the toilet which was super easy.  We took a wax ring, set it over the 'hole', and plobbed the toilet on top.  We aligned the bolts, tightened, and our throne was ready.