Easy to grout?

catoutthebag

My tiler recently tiled bathroom floor, showers area and part of a kitchen wall.
Few weeks ago, I noticed he missed a piece of grout on bathroom floor (grey grout) on the end of the section near skirting. Only a few cm.
And on kitchen wall tile, right on the end on one side of the boiler (white grout, bit awkward to fully reach but do-able), this part is a few inches and fully concealed unless you specifically look for it

He has left the materials he bought.

For the floor, I was just going to poly filler the few cm as it's a corner edge and won't look like grout was missing (probably).

The kitchen bit I only recently noticed and was slightly more annoyingly, bug was going to leave it as was hidden.

My question is : is it easy to grout myself and make it look clean and professional? Or just polyfiller tjd floor bit and leave the kitchen bit?

EssexExile

Just mix a little of the grout powder with water to make a paste, squeeze it into the gaps as best you can & wipe excess off with a damp sponge. Wipe with a dry cloth when it's dried out. It easier than using Polyfilla.

Dandytf

EssexExile wrote: »

Just mix a little of the grout powder with water to make a paste, squeeze it into the gaps as best you can & wipe excess off with a damp sponge. Wipe with a dry cloth when it's dried out. It easier than using Polyfilla.

Excellent advice.

Is it cold water to make the grout paste?

Is it o.k. to use grout paste over previous grout?

My bathroom could do with re grouting.

EssexExile

Cold water. The trouble with trying to regrout is getting the old stuff clean enough for the new stuff to stick to. There all sorts of tools in B&Q to remove the old grout but I've never tried them.

Mr.Generous

re grouting is seriously hard work, easy to scratch the tiles when you rake out the old stuff. B&Q used to sell an electric grout remover which was excellent if your determined to do this job, it will take ages however. Grout isn't good against surfaces that move unless you mix it with latex, where tiles meet another surface tiler may well have done this to stop it cracking away. I usually do this at the bottom of wall tiles where they meet the floor and around window frames, my (business) partner tends to prefer flexible caulk for these areas. Try and push grout well into the gaps for a better job too. Neat grouting makes a massive difference to the finished job.

Dandytf

Thanks All for your advice.

I think I'll just need to 'clean' existing grout (I have m.s.)

Is domestos the best 'grout' cleaning product (I have a week of work June)

catoutthebag

How much cold water to grout and how to fill in? Old bank card? I'll try floor first.thank u

EssexExile

To make it like thick cream, a bank card is fine, or your fingers if there isn't much to do.

pmartin86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAHNxSs5lJA

wrightk

Mr.Generous wrote: »

re grouting is seriously hard work, easy to scratch the tiles when you rake out the old stuff. B&Q used to sell an electric grout remover which was excellent if your determined to do this job, it will take ages however. Grout isn't good against surfaces that move unless you mix it with latex, where tiles meet another surface tiler may well have done this to stop it cracking away. I usually do this at the bottom of wall tiles where they meet the floor and around window frames, my (business) partner tends to prefer flexible caulk for these areas. Try and push grout well into the gaps for a better job too. Neat grouting makes a massive difference to the finished job.

regrouting needn't be as hard as you make out. An electric grout remover will take forever, however any competent person or tradesman who owns a multi cutter can do the job in a fraction of the time

catoutthebag wrote: »

How much cold water to grout and how to fill in? Old bank card? I'll try floor first.thank u

If you are using a powdered grout put a small amount of water in a bowl or something first and gradually add the powder. You want a nice thick creamy consistency. A bank card will do if your just doing a small area, no need to fork out for grout floats.Work diagonally pushing the grout into the spaces with your card held at around 45 degree angle. After you've done the area get something rounded (plastic pipe, i use the back end of a small grout rake) and run it along all your grouted lines, this will give a nice finish to the joints and push away any excess. When your grout has a misty appearance on the tiles, time to wipe off with a sponge.Wipe off carefully and dont allow too much water to get on the sponge, always give it a dunk in water and thoroughly squeeze out any excess

Hope any of this has helped