Help wrong grout colour!
Tinklebell 208
last year
Hello Houzzers,
I foolishly agreed to the builder’s recommendation that I should use a grey grout for my white herringbone tiles and it now looks too busy. I desperately want to change the grout colour to white to tone it down. Any suggestions about how best to do this and using what product?
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Comments (12)Hi Felicia, sorry to hear that this has happened to you too. It sounds like you have had a similar floor to us - was yours a poured concrete floor i.e. you had an 8-10mm topping poured on top of a screed? Do you know what make of material was used? So, over a year on from my initial post, we ended up having to pull the floor up and get it re-done by someone who knew what they were doing. This time, we ended up going for a solid slab of concrete which was polished up and looks great (but it cost a hell of a lot more!). The bubbles would have created problems outside in terms of water getting in, freezing, expanding and then cracking the concrete over time. But, when I was looking for a new contractor to re-do the floor (we didn’t pay the other guy anything), one of the contractors who was excellent stated that they could have repaired the floor with all of the bubbles. Essentially, the floor hadn’t been primed properly and this sort of thing can apparently happen if there are big differences between the substrate and air temperatures. They mentioned that there was a way to grind down a layer and fill in the holes so I wouldn’t despair just yet. It is a shame that your contractor is being unhelpful - ours was too. I can only suggest trying to call around some other contractors to see what can be done in the first instance. Alternatively, a lot of resin floors can now give a very similar effect to polished concrete but the cost is not cheap. Please feel free to come back to me if you need to as I know how disappointing this sort of thing is....See MoreGrout colour decisions - Help!
Comments (6)Personally, I think anything other than white grout with that style of white tile, reminds me of old style public toilets or the London underground. I know grey grout is popular at the moment with the current frenzy for all things grey and I'm sure I've just insulted a whole raft of people with my comment, but for me, I'd go with just white. Aside from anything else it makes it look cleaner and also will disguise any slight misalignment of the tiles....See MoreWrong decision on quartz splashback, help
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