Hi all, new here and I need some desperate help.
Recently got my dad to tile my kitchen backsplash, took a while as it’s was a herringbone style with lots of cuts, but once the tiles were on the wall it looked really good and was worth the extra time and effort.
I brought all the adhesive and grout from B&Q without much investigation to be honest, and I got Mapei grey grout. So my dads grouted and all gone in the joints fine, I was cleaning up behind him with a sponge but leaving about a 5mm gap to the edge of the tile as I didn’t want to drag the grout out the gaps. My dad from experience expected the small excess on the edges to dry overnight and be able to polish off, this isn’t the case. It’s dried solid and isn’t coming off.
So far I have tried dry scourer, warm water scourer (I’m getting through loads of scourers at this point). Now I’m onto 5% vinegar, little bit on the scourer and scrubbing, I also brought a nylon brush end from tool station that you use in a drill bit that hasn’t seemed to work either. The wcourers after some serious hard work seem to make a slight difference to the surface grout, but the tiles are rough with lots of indents, and I’m left with solid grey spot in the indents that won’t go anywhere.
I’m pretty devastated to be honest and the more things I try the more it’s pointing towards smashing them all off and going again, but this may be my frustration.
I have so many suggestions, shall I spray the vinegar on and leave to soak? shall I try sugar water? Will it come to grout removal fluid of some sort, if so how do I stop it pulling the grout out the gaps?
As you can tell I’m pretty gutted by it all, so any help suggestions would be an absolute god send.
Recently got my dad to tile my kitchen backsplash, took a while as it’s was a herringbone style with lots of cuts, but once the tiles were on the wall it looked really good and was worth the extra time and effort.
I brought all the adhesive and grout from B&Q without much investigation to be honest, and I got Mapei grey grout. So my dads grouted and all gone in the joints fine, I was cleaning up behind him with a sponge but leaving about a 5mm gap to the edge of the tile as I didn’t want to drag the grout out the gaps. My dad from experience expected the small excess on the edges to dry overnight and be able to polish off, this isn’t the case. It’s dried solid and isn’t coming off.
So far I have tried dry scourer, warm water scourer (I’m getting through loads of scourers at this point). Now I’m onto 5% vinegar, little bit on the scourer and scrubbing, I also brought a nylon brush end from tool station that you use in a drill bit that hasn’t seemed to work either. The wcourers after some serious hard work seem to make a slight difference to the surface grout, but the tiles are rough with lots of indents, and I’m left with solid grey spot in the indents that won’t go anywhere.
I’m pretty devastated to be honest and the more things I try the more it’s pointing towards smashing them all off and going again, but this may be my frustration.
I have so many suggestions, shall I spray the vinegar on and leave to soak? shall I try sugar water? Will it come to grout removal fluid of some sort, if so how do I stop it pulling the grout out the gaps?
As you can tell I’m pretty gutted by it all, so any help suggestions would be an absolute god send.
