Floor tiling and grouting issue
A troubled DIYer asks
I wish to grout my newly laid floor tiles. From past experience it takes four times as long to clean the excess grout off the new tiles as it does to do the initial grouting. My technique, as advised by my DIY bible is to splat the grout into the gap with a trowel and grout float then firm it in with a pencil or plastic tool. After all this is done I wipe off a huge amount of excess with my cloth.
Surely there must be an easier and less wasteful way?
August 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am
The almighty weapon of floor tiling is a disposable cake icing bag. Purchase one from the kitchen section of your favorite department store. This a moderately strong triangular plastic bag and will cost you around 50 pence.
Chop off the corner to an appropriate width, fill with grout, squirt it into the gaps, smooth with a pencil or grout tool, and wipe off the very small amount of excess.