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We are just finishing up a job (upper floor update; 2 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms).
In one of the bathrooms, we laid grey ceramic floor tile, and used a marble mosaic around a drop in tub (all three sides exterior walls).
The grout color for the tub surround was never specced. After grouting the floor with Polyblend grout, the HO said she wanted the same color for the tub surround.
Unfortunately, the tub surround dried to a completely different color. After the floor was grouted, we weren't left with enough grout for the entire tub surround, so purchased another bag (from the same tile distributor in the same dye lot) and mixed the remaining.
Few questions:
A) what might have caused this? I was hoping that the grout was just drying slowly (due to being one exterior walls we never touched, so never re-insulated). We also sealed the marble before grouting, which also might have affected the outcome.
B) is there an easy(er) fix other than removing grout and re-grouting? I've seen people use grout dye/grout renew, but have no experience with it? We are wanting to lighten the grout colour.
Cheers,
In one of the bathrooms, we laid grey ceramic floor tile, and used a marble mosaic around a drop in tub (all three sides exterior walls).
The grout color for the tub surround was never specced. After grouting the floor with Polyblend grout, the HO said she wanted the same color for the tub surround.
Unfortunately, the tub surround dried to a completely different color. After the floor was grouted, we weren't left with enough grout for the entire tub surround, so purchased another bag (from the same tile distributor in the same dye lot) and mixed the remaining.
Few questions:
A) what might have caused this? I was hoping that the grout was just drying slowly (due to being one exterior walls we never touched, so never re-insulated). We also sealed the marble before grouting, which also might have affected the outcome.
B) is there an easy(er) fix other than removing grout and re-grouting? I've seen people use grout dye/grout renew, but have no experience with it? We are wanting to lighten the grout colour.
Cheers,