sickasapike
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Hi all, I was wondering how it's likely to turn out if I don't cut out the whole depth of the grout in the bathroom here (it's home diy not paid work btw), the problem is I'm not really sure how well/consistently it's all attached to the wall behind and fear if I really get in there and separate all the tiles, some may abandon wall or an area sag off the wall or...
I guess what I'm asking, is how well does new grout stick to old (albeit cleaned, dry, smoothed/roughed if that would help) grout ? - I've got a decent V-ish shaped channel cut out between the tiles now, down to about half tile thickness on the sides and deeper in the middle but am shy of pushing through to the rear of tiles so far, is it completely all or nothing with regrouting ?
It will need re-tiling one day, year or two; not seeing this as a long term solution, just getting it presentable.
Amazing how much grout the original chap left, white grout on white tiles so not obvious but most of them had a 1cm matt border all round the edges - I spent half of this afternoon scraping that off the faces and a clean and polish, bathroom looks brighter already !
I guess what I'm asking, is how well does new grout stick to old (albeit cleaned, dry, smoothed/roughed if that would help) grout ? - I've got a decent V-ish shaped channel cut out between the tiles now, down to about half tile thickness on the sides and deeper in the middle but am shy of pushing through to the rear of tiles so far, is it completely all or nothing with regrouting ?
It will need re-tiling one day, year or two; not seeing this as a long term solution, just getting it presentable.
Amazing how much grout the original chap left, white grout on white tiles so not obvious but most of them had a 1cm matt border all round the edges - I spent half of this afternoon scraping that off the faces and a clean and polish, bathroom looks brighter already !
