grouting

[village tiling]

ive been aked too regrout a 300x300 (20m2approx) polished porcelain floor wich was grouted in the wrong colour by some cowboy. the grout is light grey but is patchy in places. the customer wants it dark grey or charcoal i considered usin HG grout die but thought that the die may stain the polised porcelain tiles. the customer dosent want to go down the route of rakin all the groutan regrouting it out as it would be too expensive.. any one have any ideas or suggestions 4 wot i could do.

cheers paul

[whitebeam]

Walk away, It sounds to me they have changed there mind about the grout colour and blaming the other tiler. They don't want you to rake out all of the grout, It's to expensive, Don't go the quick fix IMO

[village tiling]

to be honest it s not a very good job all round i have to replace 12 tiles bcoz theyve been layed wrong (lips,chips etc) the grout is very patchy also dont know wether its a fault withthe grout itself or the lad who dunnit used dirty water.

[whitebeam]

They got a cheap job then

If you have other work Don't worry yourself about it

[doug boardley]

if you've told them you'll sort it, personally I'd insist on raking grout out although you'll have to be careful about chipping, I'd use a fein multimaster but make customers aware that tiles coould chip. Why haven't they got original tiler back to sort his own mess out?
doug

[doug boardley]

if tiles are polished porc they should have been sealed after grouting, so not sure a dye would penetrate into grout imo

[TilingLogistics]

Something fishy here methinks Do it properley or walk it's your reputation! If you bodge it as well the next tiler will be on here talking about you

Kev

[cp3147]

id leave well alone unless they offer you loadsa money to correct it id want a grand a day for re-groutin its a pain in d rectum lol gd luck anyhow

[village tiling]

yeah think im gonna just rake out an regrout. theyll just have to pay up. if theyd got a real tiler in the first place and not a jobber they wouldnt be in this situation.
thanks for the advice lads...

[cp3147]

hope all goes smoothly village tiling