Broken Grout lines..

Broken Grout lines..

April 22 2005 at 7:55 PM To view links in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily. Aaron Baum (Login To view links in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily.)

Hello Again,

I did an inspection of a residential tile & grout job today. The tiles are 12" x 12" with gray 1/4" sanded grout. In an area of a high traffic hallway off of the kitchen, the grout joints around two tiles have crumbled away. The tile still feels fully secure, and I could not move it at all. I am wondering if it would be an easy task for me to regrout this small area. There is still some grout that is in the lines, what would be the best way of removing this so that I can start fresh? I appreciate any ideas and thoughts on this..

Thank You,
Aaron Baum, Brownell's E-Z Clean, LLC

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James Stephens
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April 23 2005, 12:59 AM
I have some experience with my own bathroom. I put in new tile and grout but did not mix quite right(this is critical with poly-blend grout) I decided to put some new grout without removing the old. Big mistake, the grout did not hold long and the color was slightly off to the eye.

Use a drimel bit to remove all the grout down to the sub-flooring. Hope that your customer realizes that you may not have an exact match even though they may have the same bag of grout previously used.

If your not going to take it all out, make sure you clean the grout before taking part of it out. Some may come out in the cleaning process and you don't want to try and color match if the grout is dirty.
Charles Carlisle
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April 23 2005, 9:07 AM
We offer this service and have done quite a bit of it...and yes the first thing to tell the customer is how it will look different. Easy to do mechanically, and the finished product will be structurally sound, but as always, T&G comes down to what looks good.

Dremel, or Fein Multimaster tool will remove the grout down to 2/3 of the way. Regrout+restain if necessary, although that involves cleaning the whole area.


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April 24 2005, 3:15 PM
Thanks alot guys for the information. I will be sure to explain that to my customer. Thanks again, Aaron Baum