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Help! Tiled wetroom floor looks perfect but grout doesn't dry out!
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[QUOTE="Paula, post: 778738"] Hi Kris, thanks very much for looking at this! As you can see, this is a long-running saga....first noticed dark patches on the grout in the actual shower cubicle (well, behind the single glass sheet separating the shower area from the rest of the wet room) almost as soon as we started using the new shower a year ago. They didn't ever really dry out, and so, having taken advice from the lovely members of this forum, my tiler scraped out the grout, flooded the joints with more adhesive (in case there were gaps where the water was accumulating under the tiles) and then re-grouted with waterproof epoxy. Now the actual shower area looks fine (epoxy doesn't show wet patches!), but the dark patches have spread beyond the shower area (ie. beyond the screen) where, of course, the grout is the original, cementitious grout. To be honest there was a small amount of creeping here before we did the epoxy, but it is now much worse, almost as if as the water can't evaporate in the actual shower area, it is travelling further to areas where it can evaporate through the cementitious grout (ie. beyond the shower screen). We have sealed the shower screen with mastic, but the join between the waste and the tiles is very small, and the tiler did his best to scrape out all the old grout and replace with epoxy, but there are still some tiny bits of old grout there (see the picture I posted above). So I suppose water could be seeping through somehow at this join, but surely this would always happen in a wet room situation, as most people don't use epoxy? Yes, you are right, the next exit point is the screen, but this sits on the tiles and we have put mastic all round, so it's hard to see how water is getting in. I'll post a couple of pictures of the bathroom set up so you can see what's happening. Any advice gratefully received! [/QUOTE]
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