Advice re grouting brick slips (slim bricks)

[Norwich]

Hi I am in the process of adhering these real brick tiles to my bathroom wall. They are 230x75x20 (lxhxd) and am leaving a 10-12ml gap between the brick tiles. I want to use a Limestone Coloured grout and am looking at Bal Wide Joint and Bal Superflex Wide Joint. Can anyone recommend which product I should use or a better alternative?

 

[hillhead]

Welcome Norwich.I wouldn't go above 10mm personally,I have even got away with 8mm and looked great.Use a grout your familiar with? I don't use bal so can't comment.Even a good mortar joint looks great.

 

[DHTiling]

The use of a grout gun will help with these


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[Norwich]

Thanks for the advice, any idea how many kgs of grout for 300 brick slips? I would use sand and cement but am worried about getting the colour right

 

[Ian]

What is the square meterage of the area you are covering? It'll be easier to work out the grout quantity from that. Welcome along to the forum.

 

[Ian]

I get about 5.2 m2 from your measurements. Does that sound about right?

 

[Norwich]

Yes about 5 sq metres. I notice on the website we bought the tiles from (Reclaimed brick-tiles) that they sell Tilemaster Wide Joint Floor Grout and recommend using Flexmaster with it. I don't think it would work out any cheaper than Bal and all the blogs I have read say that Bal is the best ? Do you have an opinion? By the way, thank you for taking the time to help.

 

[Ian]

BAL is the only grout I use so the only one I can give a review of, as you can probably guess I rate it highly as it's what I use everyday! Mapei is also top quality stuff but i've only used it a hand full of times so am not really in a position to compare. You will need a fair amount of grout if you are having 10mm joints, the wide joint superflex comes in 20kg bags and I'd say you will need 2 bags, possibly even a 3rd.

 

[Norwich]

Brian, thank you for confirming my thoughts on the make to use....I will go with Bal. I can only find 10kg bags, do you mean that I will need 2 (maybe 3) of these?

 

[Ian]

Where are you getting your grout from? What suppliers are local to you? I'd say at least 2x20kg bags, so 40kg.

 

[Norwich]

Topps Tiles is the nearest to us in Cromer.

 

[Ian]

Topps sell the superflex wide joint in 20kg bags, preprare for a hefty bill though, it's not cheap stuff!

 

[Norwich]

Hi Brian. I have ordered the Bal Superflex Wide Joint on line from(removed). I bought 4 x 10kg bags for £54.91 delivered to me on 28-6-2011. Topps Tiles price for the same would be £104.00!if you need anything I recommend that you visit them at(link removed)http://www.wallsandfloors.co.uk, there is Free Delivery this weekend.I also looked for any E Voucher codes for the company and found a code to give me a further 20% of grouts (codeAFFAG20). There are other e voucher codes for them on (link removed)for your help. Do you think a grouting gun would work when pointing?

 

[Norwich]

Hi, do you recommend any particular model. I have these brick slips to do. Then pointing polished travertine in the shower. I also live in a brick and Flint house in Norfolk and there is plenty of lime mortar that needs repointing, so I would like to buy a good quality one.

 

[steve187]

Dunlop flex wall and floor grout, would work out cheaper