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jonnyc
are the colour sticks that say mapei and ardex do the same colour as the dry grout in the bag before mixing.
i had always assumed they were but this question was posed this weekend about a job i am on.
designer wants me to mix the colour from bag and let it dry rather than being shown a colour stick or the dry grout in bag before mixed.
it will take days before grout dries and i do not have this time.
for most of my jobs I mix c2 base colours limestone/white/beige and grey strictly proportionally dry and can produce infinite shade variations that suit almost any stone we lay for approval before mixing wet.The finished grout after drying does come out same as dry mix even with ardion 101.
I know this c2 is old fashioned but it has always worked for me and i was able to offer a big range of colour stone shades
long before ardex extended thier range and strangely they said what i was doing was fine.
the reason i use c2 over fs is that the fs is far too strong/ sticky as are all the other single part flex grouts on open pored stones especially from uk that i speciallise in, when you have to grout the whole face of stone .
but now c2 has been fazed out and i am stuck with fs and i have had some strange results even when mixing this strictly proportionally .
mark from tilemaster has come to rescue and offers me a straight grout with no additive when i order in bulk and then i can mix from his base colours and do their equivalent of ardion 101 as required.
thats stone side sorted when clients understand what i am trying to do for them in giving the best colour to match to a particular stone but mixing myself .
however there are occasions when i have to specify a certain colour that is off the shelf.
we dont always have a colour stick box to hand but we might have a bag of grout that we could show the dry mix inside.
is this indicative of what to expect fom dried out grout and has anyone had problems.
no way i would start mixing mapei grout colours proportionally .
i had always assumed they were but this question was posed this weekend about a job i am on.
designer wants me to mix the colour from bag and let it dry rather than being shown a colour stick or the dry grout in bag before mixed.
it will take days before grout dries and i do not have this time.
for most of my jobs I mix c2 base colours limestone/white/beige and grey strictly proportionally dry and can produce infinite shade variations that suit almost any stone we lay for approval before mixing wet.The finished grout after drying does come out same as dry mix even with ardion 101.
I know this c2 is old fashioned but it has always worked for me and i was able to offer a big range of colour stone shades
long before ardex extended thier range and strangely they said what i was doing was fine.
the reason i use c2 over fs is that the fs is far too strong/ sticky as are all the other single part flex grouts on open pored stones especially from uk that i speciallise in, when you have to grout the whole face of stone .
but now c2 has been fazed out and i am stuck with fs and i have had some strange results even when mixing this strictly proportionally .
mark from tilemaster has come to rescue and offers me a straight grout with no additive when i order in bulk and then i can mix from his base colours and do their equivalent of ardion 101 as required.
thats stone side sorted when clients understand what i am trying to do for them in giving the best colour to match to a particular stone but mixing myself .
however there are occasions when i have to specify a certain colour that is off the shelf.
we dont always have a colour stick box to hand but we might have a bag of grout that we could show the dry mix inside.
is this indicative of what to expect fom dried out grout and has anyone had problems.
no way i would start mixing mapei grout colours proportionally .
