Tile Grout Sealer Tip
- 12.10.09
- Bathroom, Cleaning, Tile, Grout Sealer
- 4 Comments
Cleaning tile grout can be an especially irritating job when sealer has not been applied. Grout is a substance that is naturally porous, so when you spill something on it, or if something decides to grow on it, the grout naturally takes some of the color from the spill or growth. Bleach will work sometimes, but does not always work when something like grape juice has had time to saturate it. In cases of severe staining, the grout has to be removed and reapplied.
Grout sealer seals up the pores in the grout therefore blocking the stain from getting past the surface of the grout. If grout where like a screen door, the grout sealer is like a sheet of plastic covering the screen blocking the passing wind. I have a friend from work that suggested a particularly genius idea about a grout sealer applicator. He uses an empty twist top mustard bottle. When you use a mustard bottle you can control the flow with the twist top, and the sealer gets right where you want it to go without the use of a small paint brush. If you do use this method, be sure to keep a rag handy to clean up stray squirts.
***Be sure to use at least 2 coats of sealer. It is easy to miss spots if you only coat it one time, two coats will reduce the likelihood that you missed something.
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Luke
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Actually, when there are permanent stains in grout, even after cleaning heavily, the answer may not be to replace it. Replacing grout can be a very labor intensive proposition and very difficult to accomplish with chipping or scratching tiles.
Instead of replacing the grout, consider cleaning and color sealing it. Color sealing grout is a process of restoring grout back to a completely uniform appearance and stain proofing it in one application. The process is used by professionals but is really easy to accomplish by the average diy homeowner.
The stain protection a color sealer provides goes way beyond that of a clear sealer. In your example, if a clear sealer is a sheet of plastic over a screen door, a color sealer would be like a heavy steel door with a deadbolt
You can even change the color of your grout.
Color sealing sounds like a good option…I am always up for saving time. Good Comment!
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