Sealers
Now this is MY opinion again. I have time and again told MY customers that I question the real benefit of applying sealer to ceramic tile grout. No doubt there is some benefit, but it is similar to applying clear nail polish to nails. How much it protects it is questionable. And I have always wondered, too, how often it has to be REDONE!
Usually I have seen customers who have always apologized for their sealer. "Must have put it on wrong", or "put it on too late, I guess"... whatever. The only time I have used it in my home (applied by a professional) it happens to be the dirtiest and/or darkest my grout has ever looked! I was/am very disappointed by the result.
This is different than applying it as a decorative finish to porous products like saltillo, or slate, or travertine inside a home. But I am left with wondering the real benefit of applying any to grout where the product is "tile".
Usually I have seen customers who have always apologized for their sealer. "Must have put it on wrong", or "put it on too late, I guess"... whatever. The only time I have used it in my home (applied by a professional) it happens to be the dirtiest and/or darkest my grout has ever looked! I was/am very disappointed by the result.
This is different than applying it as a decorative finish to porous products like saltillo, or slate, or travertine inside a home. But I am left with wondering the real benefit of applying any to grout where the product is "tile".
posted by John (Jack) Sullivan @ 4:49 AM
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At 3:37 PM ,
Anonymous said...
John,
Read your comments about grout sealers. I have just completed a bathroom renovation in the basement of our home. We installed ceramic tile on the floor and glass around the fiberglass shower stall with a glass baseboard. It looks great and I don't really expect that it will be too much of a wet area (ie: no tile in the shower at all and bath mats on the floor. However, I do want to do it right and if we sould seal the grout, I'd like to do it, we went with a dark grout so if it gets darker, I don't really care, just don't want white grout becoming darkened. I had heard that oils work well as sealers too and wonder what your thoughts are?
BC - High River, Alberta
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