How to Set Up A Studio:

First, spend years learning various skills like carpentry, masonry, small engine repair and electrical wiring. Instead of that, I studied mate selection and live with someone that fits that description.
We did grout the floor of the sun room last weekend. It took two sessions because we ran out of grout half way through. The second session went much easier, faster and cleaner after we applied what we learned from the first session. It is like Peter always says, "Once we are finished a job we know exactly what we are doing."
As a side adventure, not really tile related but clay related; we worked on getting one of the pottery wheels working. It confounded us in the garage, the motor would run but the belt drives would not. After some thought, we moved it into the house to warm up, and after some Armor All on the belts and some grease everywhere else it trundled along nicely, although it is less powerful than I am used to. Some structural reinforcement to stop the wobble and I have a wheel.
Then I found two pottery wheels and a kiln on Kijiji in Schubenacadie. I figured it had to be a sign so off we went on a road trip last weekend to buy them. They were all older than dirt and beat up but the price was right. They had lived in a guy's unheated shed for 10 years. They were meant to be a project, but his wife switched to painting shortly after they acquired them and the project never happened. He was selling them to make more room for the stuff he had been buying on Kijiji. (These people were really great, but the house was full of stuff - all of it great and they had many outbuildings full of more stuff. It was eerily disturbing; like looking into the future.)
The kiln is a larger version of the small test kiln we have already, it is 7 cubic feet of interior space, but it draws more power than the other and we will have to upgrade the wiring from the panel to the plug in the garage to be able to fire it. This project will be farther down the road as the small kiln will be big enough to fire the few tiles we need for the shower.
The new (old) wheels are both the stand up type and are what Peter calls third world engineering. Meaning whatever goes wrong, you can fix it with a paper clip and some bubble gum. We McGyvered one today. It looks like this but it is electric, and it is actually from England but dates from post WW2, which was sort of third worldy when you think about it. It only needed a new power cord and on/off switch to make it work, and then some silicone spray and steel wool to tart it up. At the moment it has only one speed, and although we can see that there is a potential for speed variability, we can't quite figure out how the mechanism should work as the treadle is missing. But even as a one speed wheel it might be useful for trimming and I'm definitely going to have a go at throwing just to see what it is like standing up.
All of this has taken us away from finishing the extruder. But until we get some clay, Peter won't be able to see where the problems are with the existing design. Clay is coming Monday!