Cost Replace Grouting

keystone

theragingbullock wrote: »

Have you considered doing it yourself

Why should the OP DIY if the contractor c....ked up?

.......cheap grout of good quality.

Thats an oxymoron.

I watched a couple of videos on Youtube to learn to grout last year and it was not difficult (I thought it would be).

Wonderful things YouTube videos. Of course its that simple.

If you choose to have a professional, I wouldn't consider it fair for him to charge you a great amount. My (small) bathroom was fully tiled and grouted (before I learnt how to!) for £350 labour, plus materials which I supplied.

Then you have failed to understand that the old has to be removed first and that will be the most time consuming part of the exercise by a very long way.

cldcp00 wrote: »

Would you not some how have remove the old grouting?

Yes.

Cheers

keystone

cldcp00 wrote: »

They are a kind of black porcilin it shoud be gun metal grouting

Hmm - you'm dodging the question. Should be as in "thats specifically what I wanted and communicated to him" or should be as in "thats what I really wanted but he didn't get the message" or should be as in "I don't like it now its down".

So what colour did he actually use?

Cheers

tpt

Keystone is making lots of valid points, do answer him!

Blame aside though, if he has used grey grout consider learning to like it. Gun metal\black\coloured grout in general WILL end up marked, patchy and grey in sections over time because grey is its natural colour and it will lose its dyed colour over time. Consider sealing it and you will have a long lasting floor.

Raking out and re-grouting is very labour intensive and its very difficult to get every last bit of grout out to allow use of another colour - and its also hard not to mark tiles whilst doing it.

withabix

What colour is the grout?