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Changing Grout Colour on Wood Effect Tiles in Hull Step

Changing the Colour of Grout on a Wood Effect Floor in Victoria Dock

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I recently went down to the city of Hull, the biggest in East Yorkshire, for this job after I was contacted by a client living in the Victoria Dock area. My client had a very nice wood effect Porcelain floor, but she was not happy with current colour of the grout, which was a light grey, and wanted it changed to a dark grey instead. The floor was very well maintained – with Porcelain being a highly resistant material – and so it did not require a deep clean itself. On this particular occasion, my main focus was on the grout.

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Applying the pre-treatment cleaner

The Tile Doctor Grout Colourant kit consists of a pre-treatment cleaner and the colour seal, along with a grout brush and scrub pad to apply the products. My first task was to apply the pre-treatment cleaner to the grout. This prepares the grout joints for a superior grout colourant bond.

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Once sprayed on to grout, the pre-treatment cleaner was left to sit for 1-2 minutes before being worked in with the nylon grout brush. Any excess cleaner and dirt was then rinsed off with clean water to prepare the grout for re-colouring.

Changing the grout colour

The next stage of the re-colouring was to apply the grout colourant itself. I applied the dark grey colourant very carefully using an applicator brush, ensuring that it was distributed as evenly as possible along the grout lines.

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I then left the grout to dry for a couple of hours, before using clean water in combination with a scrub pad to remove the excess. As you can see from the photographs, the overall result was a whole new look for the floor, with the dark grey colour accentuating the fantastic wood effect Porcelain, more so than the light grey had done previously.

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Both myself and my client were very pleased with a job well done.

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Re-colouring the grout on wood effect floor in Victoria Dock

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Grout Clean and colour in Beverly After

Grout Clean and Colour change for Kitchen wall tiles in Beverley

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This was a request from lady in the market town of Beverley, East Yorkshire which, interestingly, is actually the influence for the name of the famous Beverley Hills area in California. She was unhappy with the colour of grout that had been used on kitchen wall tiles installed as part of her new kitchen and had called Tile Doctor to see if anything could be done.

She had spent a lot of time deciding on what tiles she wanted, and unfortunately the tiling company that installed them used the wrong colour grout. She thought that the job was completely ruined, and that, in the worst case, the grout would need to be removed. However, after a short consultation with the client, she decided on her a deep clean for her grout, along with a change of colour – from grey to black.

Grout Clean and colour in Beverly Before

Cleaning the grout

The Tile Doctor grout colour change kit includes a pre-treater cleaner which is used to clean the grout joint and prime it ready for the colourant. The pre-treatment cleaner is applied and left so soak in for a short period before being scrubbed into the grout with a brush. This helps to penetrate below the surface, lifting any dirt and stains before being rinsed off with water.

Changing the grout colour

After cleaning the grout, I applied the black colourant which is simply applied in thin even coats using a small brush. You need to take care not to get any on the tile and to wipe it off immediately if you do. The colourant sets quite quickly in around two hours but needs to be kept dry for twenty four hours.

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After the job was done, the change in colour left the wall tile with a whole new look – the one my client had hoped for to begin with. It’s probably difficult to appreciate this from the photographs but I was very pleased to have helped to remedy this problem quickly and with relative ease. Another happy client!

Grout Clean and colour in Beverly After
 

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