Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Old grout matching dilemma
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ohredwood
10-22-07, 11:57 AM
Hi all, I was wondering if I could get some advice on grout.
I tiled this last weekend the area above the kitchen stove and that turned out pretty good I'm happy to say but I had planned on using some of the grout that was in my garage that was originally used on this kitchen backsplash area.
Problem is, when I picked it up and was trying to pour it out of bag, it was basically rocks, not powder. So I thought well I could go down to home depot or lowes and find another bag of same color, wrong, they don't carry it.
The grout is a brand name called elastiment,
sanded floor grout and the color is wheat.
I looked up this elastiment because home depot and lowes have polyblend brand to see where I could get elastiment. Got a hold of some company in new jersey called boiardi. So I called them up this morning, described my situation and the grout, he confirmed elastiment is the brand name and he had no idea how I got it in texas because they don't have any distributors here.
He said he could probably ship me a bag, but said the date code would be different than what I originally had so the color batch would be different, kind of like paint batches.
Oh great, he suggested I should remove the old grout and buy something locally and regrout everything.
I tiled about 3 square feet but my whole kitchen would have to be degrouted and then regrouted, not what I really want to do on about 20square feet.
Is this about my only hope???
Thanks for any information:confused:
By the way, we bought the house a year ago, so have no idea where the previous owners got it or who they used to tile/grout this house but I guess that's irrelevant since the batch code would be different. Looks like the bag is about 5 years old I'm guessing.
I tiled this last weekend the area above the kitchen stove and that turned out pretty good I'm happy to say but I had planned on using some of the grout that was in my garage that was originally used on this kitchen backsplash area.
Problem is, when I picked it up and was trying to pour it out of bag, it was basically rocks, not powder. So I thought well I could go down to home depot or lowes and find another bag of same color, wrong, they don't carry it.
The grout is a brand name called elastiment,
sanded floor grout and the color is wheat.
I looked up this elastiment because home depot and lowes have polyblend brand to see where I could get elastiment. Got a hold of some company in new jersey called boiardi. So I called them up this morning, described my situation and the grout, he confirmed elastiment is the brand name and he had no idea how I got it in texas because they don't have any distributors here.
He said he could probably ship me a bag, but said the date code would be different than what I originally had so the color batch would be different, kind of like paint batches.
Oh great, he suggested I should remove the old grout and buy something locally and regrout everything.
I tiled about 3 square feet but my whole kitchen would have to be degrouted and then regrouted, not what I really want to do on about 20square feet.
Is this about my only hope???
Thanks for any information:confused:
By the way, we bought the house a year ago, so have no idea where the previous owners got it or who they used to tile/grout this house but I guess that's irrelevant since the batch code would be different. Looks like the bag is about 5 years old I'm guessing.
ohredwood
10-24-07, 09:07 AM
I think I answered my own question here, for future diy's I searched on the internet and found a few people that made their own mix. I just went down to lowes and bought a bag of grout a little darker than what I needed and a bag a little lighter in color than what I needed and then made about 5 different samples at different mixture percentages. I found one about 30%/70% that looks identical to my existing grout, so we'll see. I should be okay I think.