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Hi Due to language and cultural differences I have ended up with pale grey grout between white tiles in my brand new bathroom in Sweden. It looks awful to me as I have always had white grout between white tiles in the UK and not had any discolouration problems. I have googled and read about...

Nice one Rob..:thumbsup:

Hi - My wall tiles are white with white grout and my floor tiles a dark grey with mid grey grout. I will need to silicone the join between floor and wall tiles. My instinct says this will look better with grey silicone rather than white. What do you think? And if you agree with grey then...

I am getting white marks and pale patches in a beige grout. I am being recommended to use porcelanose colour stuk rapid tile grout. I am unable to find mixing specification that I am certain of. One internet site recommended using latex instaed of water . Any useful comments? Thanks

evening there people, I am looking for some advice really i am tiling the bathroom with 400x300 white tiles and dont know what colour to grout them. i was thinking black,but could that be a bit to much? the tiles wiill be laid with a brick formation and they will be going on the walls.

Hi We recently had a Bradstone natural slate patio installed by builders. They grouted/laid in the rain.We had lots of cement overspill on face and sides. They promised to clean next day but didn't turn up for 7 days. They scrubbed with brushes/water, to no avail. They used Grimex to no avail...

Anyone used them and is the Colour Enhancer version worth it? Doing a Saltillo Terracotta floor in a weeks time and the customer just wants a matt finish. But does the enhancing version really make any difference?

Have been tiling for a few years and have never come accross this problem before.I laid glazed tiles in a bath/shower and over the last 6-8 weeks some of them have changed to a darker colour.I immediately thought that there was some sort of water ingress at the back and this was soaking into the...

Please help, do you reckon its efflorescence in my grout lines ? Will I have to dig out and re-grout ? or is there a quick way to resolve ?

The job I am involved with at the moment is quite involved (some tricky work), but it should look good on completion. My question is this, do you think these tiles would look better grouted in grey or white. I can't make my mind up. I know there are some very artistic people on this site, I...

About I year ago I fixed some polished Jerusalem White Fossil polished tiles onto primed green plasterboard using Mapei keraflex maxi, grouted with BAL limestone grout, sealed with Lithofin Stainstop. All cleaned, polished and gorgeous. A couple of months ago my customer told me that she was...

Please checkout the new colour schemes on ContractorForum.co.uk. We've got a 'near tile giant green', 365drills(ish) colours, The Toons (for Dave :) ) and a couple of other colours including red and white which can be stoke or man u. :) You scroll to the bottom of the forum and use the...

I know this is a subjective question but given the wide experience of forum members I'd appreciate any ideas you may have. I'm planning to use a tile called 'Elegant' from CTD in the Grey (Anthrcit) colour seen here: Gemini Tiles | products In the 600wx300h landscape on the wall. (much as the...

hi all .. i have black granite worktops with white kitchen units... any suggestions on what colour floor tile would work well?? i have couple of 600x300 polished porcleian samples one grey nd one black..tempted by the grey one at the minute.

Hello, I'm in a bit of a pickle about which grout colour to use for my kitchen floor tiles. They are Molise Beige by ESL ceramics (Molise tiles | Eurotiles & Stone) and they're being layed brick bond style. I was thinking a lighter beige would be good with them but now I'm thinking that...

Well done Rob...4000 very good reads..( Mostly)..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

i cant get on with this grout, mixed it to specifications ,grouting 600x600 porcelain ,poor finish when washed off ,slumping pin holes, the heat might not help 80 degrees in the building we are working in ,spoke with mapei tech guys they are going to check the batch see if all is ok with it

Hi, I recently had a patio laid with Indian Stone, the contractor who did the job sealed it afterwards but it has gone dusty white over most of the surface, some of the white is flaking off, can anyone tell me what has caused this, and what should I get him to do to rectify it. Any suggestions...

I'm sure most of you pros have a copy of this anyway, but as I just got a decent quality online version of Mapei's colour chart, I thought I'd post it here: Picasa Web Albums - purealgarve - tiling cheers mal