How to Make Your Bath / Shower Surround Grout Look New Again!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2014
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You won't believe the difference in the before and after shots! How to do it yourself tutorial on replacing existing grout without re-tiling the wall. Shows tools, tips and tricks of the trade. So easy, almost anyone can do it. #bathrooms #grout #handyman
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Alright so today on Repairs101 I'm going to show you how I was able to brighten up this dingy looking shower surround in only a few hours a day over a period of a few days.
You know the first time I did this I was twenty years old and I had nothing but a simple putty knife and an old box cutter to work with. And you know what? It still turned out really good. So it's an easy job as far as equipment and skills go but if you're not used to doing manual labour you may find this to be a daunting task.
I ended up going with this ready-mix stuff.
Really the first thing I did was repaint the bathroom. Put in the plug and use a drop sheet -- there's going to be a lot of dust that you do not want in your pipes.
Start by pulling back the old silicone. Then use a grout rake to remove a layer of grout throughout.
Do everything you can to remove the dust without getting the grout wet -- otherwise you're going to have to wait another day for it to dry out.
You'll find that diagonal strokes generally work the best, but not always.
You'll have to wait about half an hour for the mud to set up before you can start sponging it clean.
A plastic scraper is ideal for removing excess grout from the tile surfaces before wiping everything down with a sponge for a smooth, even surface.
Now if you can't wait seventy-two hours for it to cure before you have a shower you can hang plastic over the tile like this to protect the grout but you have to take it down right after your shower in order to allow the air to get at it.
Now this last step is by far the most tedious. Have your plastic scraper handy for the little chunks and bits that you'll find are still clinging to the tiles' surface. Polish the haze off each tile individually using your clean, cotton rags.
Make sure that your caulking is for bath and tile and smooth it out with a gloved finger dipped in paint thinner.
Alright, thanks for watching -- and don't forget to subscribe! 
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Great how-to. Short and straight to the point. All killer, no filler. Saved the video for when I'm ready to tackle this bathroom. Thanks and hi from Scotland
Rock on!
This is super helpful if you happen to buy a house where the previous owner DIY'd a shower install and definitely didn't do the best job on the grout *raises hand*
It's 7 years ago but a very good reference for home diy in 2021. Superb!
Glad you liked it! Best part is - seven years later and my grout still looks fantastic!!
You can cut the time in half if u have a multimaster tool. I bought a 1/4 grout grinding blade and used a vacuum to removed the dust. Way less prep and way easier to clean.
Multi master tool? Where do I get one?
It’s a tool that multiple people use to masturbate with at once.
The best instructions for re-grouting I've found! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Now I am grout thanks to this video. Real. Simple. Straightforward. Thank you Sir
Glad it helped!
Holy cow. I've had to fix grout several times. You taught me a lot of great stuff! Glad I saw this before I started working on it this week.
Glad it helped!
I know the way you did it is SUPPOSSED to work. It wears me out just watching you do such a remarkably good job. I'll have to call someone. Good job!
installing new grout is best done to moist grout so that there is a chemical bond that takes place. This is called rooting. Depending on the grout you use (some set up much faster) you must sponge tool the grout much sooner than 30 minutes or your looking at a real tough job of tooling and removing excess especially on textured tile or natural stone. . Scraping off exces? there should not be any excess only a film haze on the tile to be removed using a dry towel to buff off.
use the edge of a credit card cut at a angle for the silicone bit, if you use your finger it leaves a curve in the silicon where the water can sit and cause mildew, the straight edge of a credit card makes the silicone into a flat triangle type of shape so the water just drips off
Great tip thanks!
i cringed at his caulking, if you cut the tip the right way you can press it in as you go
hi, ive been told that you dont grout the bottom of the shower where the walls meet the floor
because this is a cracking point, it just needs to be siliconed,,,,,, is this also true for the tiles that meet in the corners "vertically"??, thanks in advance
You only leave a curve if you didn't use enough silicone. If you cut your tip at a proper angle, you'll fill any void space and, when pressing your finger, create a smooth soft-triangle that water runs off of.
Cards or tools leave far more imperfections and have much greater failure rates for mildew/mold due to worn out rubber/imperfections. There is never any subtitute for your finger (don't use a glove either as this can cause bunching/imperfections in the silicone).
Use a piece of timber (a sharp 6mm wide tip) and a washing up liquid in water spray to point the silicone at a 45 degree angle for best results
It would be easier if you sponge the grout before if goes hard then you wont have to scrape if off the tiles
I can't believe this video has so many views when the basics of grouting are done wrong! Smh.... You ALWAYS clean the excess grout off before you allow it to dry!
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It’s absolutely horrendous 😲
So satisfying to watch
Thank you for your video and useful information.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing! You answered all the questions I had as I'm watching. Thank you👍
Glad it was helpful!
Very straight foward instructions and I learned something new. Thank you!
Rock on!
Amazing clean job 👍👍👍👍
Thanks for all the info!
Excellent - thank you!
2.3 million views very impressive, and an excellent video. Thank you.
Thank you for the positive feedback!
@@repairs101 you're most welcome and thanks for bring your best to our world.
I love the tip about about hanging plastic sheets so you can continue using the shower.
Make sure you take them down after your shower or your grout will never dry.
Fer sure! A very important point for it to be a great job.
Great job...contemplating doing this to my 1990's beige shower. Don't want to tear down the bathtub.
Go for it! 7 years later mine still looks fantastic!
you made my day!! Thank you for this video.
:)
Man, this is great content. Thank you!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Sorry for the late but i don't come often on youtube this time... Work work work.... and heatwave !
Thanks for this sharing and big thumbs up.
(and sorry for my bad english)
Thanks for taking the time! Keep cool!
Beautiful job!!
Thank you! 😊
gonna do my mothers bathroom during this quarantine thanks a lot for the help !(:
Just refreshed my shower walls where old grout was chipping out. Quarantine has made me in to a handyman extraordinaire!
I use to struggle with caulking and could never do i nice clean line until someone showed me a trick. You put a line of caulking, then with finger smooth it out, and then with a moist rag light wipe the excess caulking away for a straight clean thin linr of caulking.
Very helpful and to the point. Appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Very thorough.
Great job!
Great video, you're very skilled.
Thank you very much!
Great job, thanks for posting this video
Rock on!
Thanks for the tips
No problem!
This looks much better!
:)
The longest grout process job I have ever seen!!
This was awesome, thanks!!
Glad you liked it!
Great video thanks very much, very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
That’s so beautiful 😍
Now it's years later and it still looks just as good!
Use blue painters tape when putting caulking around the tub. Gives it a nice clean line.
Will do👍
That's exactly what I do ALL THE TIME. PERFECT CAULK LINES GUARANTEED!
Looks so much better. I use a rubber float to apply grout.
7 years later and my grout still looks perfect
Nice work! It looks great! I am looking to do this in my bathroom! I've never done it before. I hope mine turns out as good as yours.
+ShelleBelle's Videos - more than a year later and mine still looks great! Good luck!
+Repairs101 Finished regrouting the tiles in the shower, and it looks great! It looks so good, I want to do all the tiles in the bathroom now!
+ShelleBelle's Videos - Awesome! Thanks for letting me know!
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OK ok so the thing is a huge percentage of Canadians themselves or their ancestors sought refuge here from poverty, oppression, persecution, war, genocide, slavery, famines and plagues. Its nothing new.
Good job
Can’t wait to do this to my bathroom this weekend and change my curtains n stuff cause it’s time and my damn landlord not doing it but it’s a self project I’m also interested in doing ❤
Hope it went well for you!
Looks fabulous on those ceramic tiles. What if you have stone, though. It's so porous. Will this method still work?
nice job, I hope to redo out bath floor. Keep sharing.
One of the best how to / quick videos I've seen - excellent work!
...only problem is you make it look too easy 🤣 ... respectively you acknowledge with labor hours... Just awesome 👍
Glad you liked it!
As a first time homeowner, this was really helpful. I could pay someone to do this but why when you can learn something?! Thanks!
Happy to help!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Fantastic!!!
Many thanks!
WOW, the project even improved the color of the tiles....LOL
Great tips
Glad it was helpful!
Love the tip about smoothing out the caulk. Thanks! I'll try it.
Better yet install 12 x 24 inch tile installed vertically with just enough space to use sanded grout (non sanded grout never holds). About 33 (12 x 24) tiles over the tub are all you need with minimum tile cutting. Cheap solid tile surround!!
Thanks man! V nice and to the point
Glad you liked it!
So do I use the improvised hawk for the tiles on its own? Or do I have to mix it with something
Do you have any video how to remove a broken key from the door ? Thank you
Thank you, Repairs 101........ I can do it....... !!!!!!!
Glad to help!
Nice !
Did you use those grout tubes and squeeze those out on your hawk or did you use a different product?
Short and simple
+Repairs101 Nice informative video! Love the channel logo. Keep up the good work brother!
+Josh Ferguson - Thanks Josh! Rock on!
You had paint in the earlier part of the video. Did you paint the tiles? The end shot looks amazing...but looks like a different color tile.
It's amazing
:)
Brother, what's the best type grout to use and must one use a sealant after?
What grout/mud should I use? I had my tub “”professionally”” grouted and the grout they used was terrible and falls away in chunks.
Omg the sound of you scratching the grout was horrible😭😭😭 got chills all over
Sahar - you must have sensitive ears
Wow you make me save money thanks you
:)
very labor intensive ! (hard)
Color and product name please... I have the same green tile that I'd like to paint in The more neutral blue green you chose
Thanks
No problem.
Best... best.... best.... thank uouuuuuuu...... 😊
You people crack me up. Lol!!
u rock bud thx
Rock on!
Will be doing this soon! I just painted the mildew ceiling and walls with kilz and gave it some fresh paint! The tile kills the new look so I have to regrout it.
You'll be so happy when it's done! Totally worth the effort!
@@repairs101 so I live in apartments and don't want to do all this scraping work (bad shoulder) can I just regrout it the way it is? I mean half of it is gone already. It fell out
@@LD-wj2nd I would not. I recommend getting help to do the raking if you're not capable (pretty sure I mentioned it being physically challenging). Otherwise it's going to continue to fall out and ruin all your hard work. Adequate preparation is key to success.
What is the brand for the grout you use to put in a tile Mud,
Are those the same tiles or did you paint them? They look bluer. This was such an easy informative video and I will be doing this in a few weeks. Thank you!!!
Same tiles no paint no tricks - any apparent difference would be due to camera/lighting. Good luck with yours!
I think he teabagged the tiles before hand,or maybe the tiles...or probably both
Was prob lot of build up soap scum on. Bath im working on now in rental had layer of scum a scrspped off with razor and made tiles look way better
Hey my Mason has used white cement as grout will it be okay. Plzz reply
Hello...thanks for sharing your knowledge. Was the original grout in your shower a sanded or non-sanded grout? If it was a sanded grout, did you have to remove all of the old grout or just a portion of the old grout prior to re-grouting?
Thanks
Mike R At 0:40 I point out (in the graphic overlay) that one generally uses unsanded grout if the gap is less than 1/8th of an inch (3mm) and sanded if the gap is greater than 1/8th of an inch (3mm) - my bad it goes by so quick - my filmmaking skills have improved some since then. That said, in answer to your question: it was unsanded grout (the gaps are small) and I removed a surface layer only, exactly as shown in the video.
nice 👍😊💕
more please 💕👍
Sure 😊 !! In fact I have already created and published OVER 150 videos on my channel Repairs101.
Check it out! ruclips.net/user/repairs101ca
Great video! will this work on floor tiles as well? If yes, how much of the existing grout should i remove?
Sure, but you"ll likely need heavier Sanded grout. Dig out as much of the old grout as you can. The more new material the better the adhesion.
Thanks Canadian🤪
You should put grout on moist or even wet base.
Am I the only one that thinks this guy turned a 3-hour job into a 3 day job?
I look forward to seeing your video on the subject.
Do you?
Ok
How do you call that yellow tool you use? I need that.
Can you please make a video about that last step? How do I get rid of excess silicone without pulling rest out?
Definitely in the works but maybe not next.
Great video thanks
Also what was the name of the tool you used to apply the grout?
How long to wait for taking a shower after putting the new grout?
Funny location of the valves but good video
Hello, Excellent Video. So you used the same Dow Corning Silicone sealant in between the tiles on the shower wall as well as in the corners? I saw some other videos ,, for corners they suggested using a material that can expand and contract in case of any structural movement ..hence asking...thanks again
Some people like to make things more complicated.
@@repairs101 Thanks for the quick response. I am gonna try your method.
Thanks for the video..!
Any advice for a sealer..? when should i apply it... a day or two after grouting?
I am using non sanded grout from Costume Building Products.
Also, be careful ...when I did this on my mothers bathroom, tiles began falling off the wall...lol. I tried to get her to agree to have new white tiles put in, but she insisted on keeping the old pale blue tiles from 1970....lol. The only problem was, a few tiles broke from the fall....so I had to extend the shower/tub design (which were new) to cover the space for the missing tiles....lol. In the end, she loved it....well, except for the gloss sealer I used that dripped and ran down on the gloss tiles...I forgot to wipe the tiles off and didn't notice it, but when my mother was finally able to take a bath, (it took me a long time...a week or so), the first thing she noticed was the drips on the tile....:-(. I was too exhausted to try to remove and clean all the tiles, so I told her it would wear off.....:-) Oh, she only had one full bathroom....:-)
You are a good daughter!
Cool
I just did paint my tiles, and want to remove the paint from the grout, so it can look more natural & fill it in again. Can I still scrub on the wall like you did in the video without my paint coming off?
I'm guessing no... but you should ask your paint supplier or the manufacturer('s website)
Thank you, this has been vary informative, I plan on starting on my shower this weekend.
Good luck!
And the Mason used white cement without removing old grout.। Plzz help
REAL NICE, JOB EXPLAINING STEPS.
Thanks for commenting, Uncle Frank! Hi to Auntie May!
Interesting -didn't know that caulking you used was water proof tho - surely a sealant would be more appropriate - nice job -thank you -
Only use bathroom SILICONE
The grout lines in my bathroom are no more than 1/8". Grout has loosened or been removed in only a few spots, so filling them in with ready-made grout--like the tubes from Ace Hardware in this clip--should do the trick. The rest of the grout could be easily painted with one of those specialty, DIY products.
Instead of caulking the bottom where the tile and tub meet can i just use grout? I have a shower stall that is ceramic and has a plastic floor and borders. I thought of just using grout then sealing it. Awesome video!!
I hope you decided to caulk. Even though you can't see it, when you fill up your tub the extra weight of your body and water moves the tub down. Caulk is flexible while grout is not.