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Last August had about 100sq meters tiled, and when the tiler had finished noticed that the grout was drying at different shades of grey.
I had the lounge, hallway, dinning kitchen, utility and bathroom floors tiled and also the walls in the bathroom tiled floor to ceiling. Told the tiler I wanted the mid grey colour from grout 3000 range but he went and used a grey colour from ardex. The colour should look light grey but all my grout is in different shades of grey. The tiler said it was caused by efflorescence and tried to clean with acid but this has made no effect.
The tiler is coming back on Friday with a rep from the grout company to find out what has gone wrong. I have also noticed I am now getting pin holes forming in some parts of the grout and have noticed some tiles where the edges have a white line forming. Another thing I've noticed that the grout doesn't have a smooth finish it's sort of a gritty/rough finish. Not like the grout 3000 I saw in the tile shop.
Has my tiler messed up? He did offer to paint the grout which I've declined.
Friends and family that have popped over have commented that the grout look like it was layed over 10years ago.
I had the lounge, hallway, dinning kitchen, utility and bathroom floors tiled and also the walls in the bathroom tiled floor to ceiling. Told the tiler I wanted the mid grey colour from grout 3000 range but he went and used a grey colour from ardex. The colour should look light grey but all my grout is in different shades of grey. The tiler said it was caused by efflorescence and tried to clean with acid but this has made no effect.
The tiler is coming back on Friday with a rep from the grout company to find out what has gone wrong. I have also noticed I am now getting pin holes forming in some parts of the grout and have noticed some tiles where the edges have a white line forming. Another thing I've noticed that the grout doesn't have a smooth finish it's sort of a gritty/rough finish. Not like the grout 3000 I saw in the tile shop.
Has my tiler messed up? He did offer to paint the grout which I've declined.
Friends and family that have popped over have commented that the grout look like it was layed over 10years ago.