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Grout and clean tiles with coarse surface
Hi!
I'm working on laying tiles in the basement, laundry room, about 5 sqm. Beginner!
Tiles 10x10, light gray. Planning to grout with gray grout, i.e., darker than the tiles (for practical reasons, it would look better with light grout...).
The tiles are rough with a coarse surface, and I'm now a bit worried about how it will go to clean after grouting. I've read some different instructions, and they vary somewhat.
Do you think it will be okay to clean off the grout residues on the tiles in the usual way with a sponge and water?
I'm working on laying tiles in the basement, laundry room, about 5 sqm. Beginner!
Tiles 10x10, light gray. Planning to grout with gray grout, i.e., darker than the tiles (for practical reasons, it would look better with light grout...).
The tiles are rough with a coarse surface, and I'm now a bit worried about how it will go to clean after grouting. I've read some different instructions, and they vary somewhat.
Do you think it will be okay to clean off the grout residues on the tiles in the usual way with a sponge and water?
Grout a smaller area at a time. This gives you time to "sponge" with water without too much risk of it setting too quickly. Immediately after the first sponging where the joints are formed, you can go over it with the sponge again, but more gently and with clean water. I find it easier to minimize the setting of grout in unwanted places with this method.
To provide feedback, I can say that it was a lot of work to clean the grout on these tiles. There was a lot of grout left on the tiles that needed to be washed off, and I had to do it in two rounds, first as usual after about half an hour or so, the second round about 2 hours later. Probably not optimal and can certainly result in color variations in the grout.
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