How to prevent white grouting from staining

[Zantaz]

My wife would like to have white ceramic floor tiles fitted to our kitchen but I'm worried that the white grouting will get dirty and turn black.

Are there any products on the market that will prevent the grouting from staining, other than choosing black grouting which i've been told is a strict no.

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[John Benton]

You could use a grout sealer but unless you are prepared to walk in socks/slippers I would strongly recommend not to use white grout on a floor, especially kitchen. Dependant upon what colour your units/worktops are I would opt for a mid to dark grey.

 

[Zantaz]

Mid grey...that's a good shout. could be a decent compromise considering the kitchen units and work tops are light grey.

 

[AliGage]

I don't think i have ever spread white grout on a floor. It's verging on ludicrous on a kitchen floor. Frame the white tiles with a complimentary colour picked out from the units or worktops like JB said.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

hi Zantaz, one way to get white grout to stay white on the floor is to go for an epoxy grout. It's mean and horrid stuff, very expensive and you really do need to work carefully with it to get it spot on. There is only one tiler on here I know of who has ever attempted to grout a floor with white epoxy grout and that's Grumpygrouter. He's not been on for a while though

 

[Brian the Tile]

Epoxy is the only way to go if you want it to stay white it is not that bad to use these days,best way is to use grout float ,make sure you have green scouring pads and a few cellouse sponges not hard at all if you follow instructions,good luck but dont use any other white floor grout or it will disscoulor in no time

 

[detiling]

dont be scared to use epoxy grout, its a lot easier to work than a lot of people will tell you.

 

[Fliselege]

I'm not kidding I have only used white grout here once and that was a silly little repair job replacing 2 broken wall tiles, our most used colour is manhatten grey on floors and walls, only used jasmin and bahama beige a few times and antrasit on quite a few dark tiled floors but greys are used mostly. We have been asked to grout a few jobs in white but when we explain how quickly it gets mucky they all go for grey.

 

[Fliselege]

Thinking about it only used bahama beige once and I'll never forget the day we went to grout my bosses water supply froze up and we spent a few hours trying to sort it out, got no where so we went up to the job and while he's on the phone asking plumbers we work with for advice he turned into customers road and drifted the back of his 3 week old van into a give way sign. He was so stressed with the water and gutted about damaging the new van I said turn round lets go back, if owt else goes wrong you'll do some thing daft, so that was that didn't grout that day

 

[Dan]

Epoxy as said if you want the grout to stay white. Takes a bit longer than normal grout but it's worth it as it lasts pretty much forever. Even chemicals can't bother it. Bleaches and whatever else you can throw at it will never harm it. It's designed for food prep areas and clinical environments along with food related factories often using it too.

Overkill for your average kitchen but it will waterproof your floor (tiles permitting) and never discolour. And you can really scrub it and not ruin it at all should you need to.

Other than that, light grey as said but I have that in my kitchen and it's dirtier in the heavy traffic areas than it is elsewhere. And although it's not that dirty, it does look darker as it stands out against all the clean bits in the corners of the room etc.

 

[John Benton]

Epoxy as said if you want the grout to stay white. Takes a bit longer than normal grout but it's worth it as it lasts pretty much forever. Even chemicals can't bother it. Bleaches and whatever else you can throw at it will never harm it. It's designed for food prep areas and clinical environments along with food related factories often using it too.

Overkill for your average kitchen but it will waterproof your floor (tiles permitting) and never discolour. And you can really scrub it and not ruin it at all should you need to.

Other than that, light grey as said but I have that in my kitchen and it's dirtier in the heavy traffic areas than it is elsewhere. And although it's not that dirty, it does look darker as it stands out against all the clean bits in the corners of the room etc.

Slippers Dan, slippers!!! :lol:

 

[Marksmithtiling]

Only once have I used white on the floor,white tiles with grey marble effect, tried my hardest to convince customer to have contrasting grey grout but his wife was set on white. Went back a month or so later to do a job in his bathroom to be greeted with " i wish we had gone with grey on the kitchen floor".............

 

[AliGage]

Only once have I used white on the floor,white tiles with grey marble effect, tried my hardest to convince customer to have contrasting grey grout but his wife was set on white. Went back a month or so later to do a job in his bathroom to be greeted with " i wish we had gone with grey on the kitchen floor".............

Did you give him a quote to rake and re-grout? lol

 

[Tresco]

I'm not kidding I have only used white grout here once and that was a silly little repair job replacing 2 broken wall tiles, our most used colour is manhatten grey on floors and walls, only used jasmin and bahama beige a few times and antrasit on quite a few dark tiled floors but greys are used mostly. We have been asked to grout a few jobs in white but when we explain how quickly it gets mucky they all go for grey.

How does beige hold up in a bathroom?

 

[grumpygrouter]

hi Zantaz, one way to get white grout to stay white on the floor is to go for an epoxy grout. It's mean and horrid stuff, very expensive and you really do need to work carefully with it to get it spot on. There is only one tiler on here I know of who has ever attempted to grout a floor with white epoxy grout and that's Grumpygrouter. He's not been on for a while though

as if by magic........ :smilewinkgrin:

 

[martin1c]

If you use HG mould killer spray to clean every few weeks you might not have a problem with staining. It has a bleaching agent in it and brings grout back like new.

 

[White Room]

Only once have I used white on the floor,white tiles with grey marble effect, tried my hardest to convince customer to have contrasting grey grout but his wife was set on white. Went back a month or so later to do a job in his bathroom to be greeted with " i wish we had gone with grey on the kitchen floor".............

Done the same but they had white tiles as well:yikes:

 

[Fliselege]

How does beige hold up in a bathroom?

Couldn't tell you, not been back to the job since we finished it, looked nice when we did it though

 

[Marksmithtiling]

Did you give him a quote to rake and re-grout? lol[/Q

I told him it could be done but time consuming = expensive he decided bleach every so often cheaper