Non-motoring > Tiling - how to clean up after you! Miscellaneous
Thread Author: BobbyG Replies: 20
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 15:59 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - BobbyG
OK over the weekend I had my first ever bash at tiling, doing a 3 tile high splash-back around the utility room sink and worktop.

My job tonight is to now try and get the stainless steel sink and the black worktops roughly back to the way they were before I dumped half a ton of grout on them. Grout everywhere, some solid, some still squishy. I know it should all come off eventually with lashings of water, elbow grease, scouring pads etc but is there anything else I can do? You know the sort of thing, like the Mr Muscle adverts on TV, spray on , go and have a cigar and drink and then come back and it will all wipe off?

And yes, I know it should all have been covered, tidiness isn't my forte!
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 16:46 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Ted
Cleaning ? Woman's work....is there not one around who would take a pride in a well done job ?

Incoming flak from Pat expected........going into hiding.

Ted
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 16:50 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Runfer D'Hills
Not so long ago I'd have suggested carefully chiseling it off........sort of lost its appeal now.

:-(
Last edited by: Humph D'bout on Tue 31 Aug 10 at 16:51
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 17:07 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - BobbyG
Humph, can understand why!

Ted, yes there is a woman but do I really want her saying how she had to finish the job off blah blah blah????
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 17:17 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - AnotherJohnH
I think the knack is to get it off places you don't want it before it sets:

plenty of running water and keeping the cloth clean to avoid surface scratching.

Probably a bit late now, the way the original post reads....
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 17:33 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Zero
yup, lesson one you get it off while its still moist.

Tile one day, clean up asap

Grout the next day - clean it all the time while doing it.
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 17:35 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - BiggerBadderDave
"yup, lesson one you get it off while its still moist."

Sex with my ex-wife
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 17:37 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - BobbyG
yeah but heard she needed more than grout to fill.....

oh never mind
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 18:26 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Ted

Mine's a lot better after a night on the tiles.

Hardened grout ? Hmmmm.........probably best to remove all the tiles so you can get the worktops and sink out to be thrown away and replaced.
Of course, removing the tiles, now they're set, will probably bring a fair amount of the plaster off with them.

I suppose it could be worse.

Ted
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 20:22 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - MD
Get a professional next time you tight Wad!!

MD.

NO. I don't know any before you lot start. :0)
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 20:24 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - R.P.
Quite right Martin. I had a professional in to tile my shower after another professional wrecked them ! Mind it looks a lot less nineties now in white.
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 21:19 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - J Bonington Jagworth
"Probably a bit late now, the way the original post reads..."

My thoughts exactly. A paint scraper (the sort that takes Stanley knife blades) should shift it, but you need to be careful on the stainless. I use old credit cards for lighter duties and they work surprisingly well. Next time, mask it all off!
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 23:03 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - BobbyG
JBJ there won't be a next time!!

Well a few hours of elbow grease, a sponge/scourer and lots of elbow grease and the worktop is looking new again. Sink mostly clean but has some dulling. A couple of scrape marks where I had to use the scourer side. I believe baby oil is good for restoring stainless steel.

This was my first attempt at tiling and quite chuffed with outcome. If Dave had posted his thread last week I would have added "tiling" to the list of never having done, but I can score that off now!

Mind you, don't think I would really want to do it again and that was just a splashback, no way would I attempt a shower or bathroom!
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New Tue 31 Aug 10 23:23 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Ted

Olive oil or cooking oil will do if you haven't any baby oil in the bedside cabinet.

Ted
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 06:31 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Pat
Surely everyone does, Ted?

Pat
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 11:05 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Mapmaker
Tiling is surprisingly easy, I've done two showers, a bathroom and a kitchen.
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 11:43 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Ted

Memories, Pat..........Copperslip now !

Ted
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 14:38 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - J Bonington Jagworth
"Copperslip now !"

Blimey - that's a bit heavy duty, isn't it?
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 14:51 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Ted

Less sticky than LM grease.

Ted
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 16:14 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - Old Navy
Not much cleaner than moly grease though.
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New Wed 1 Sep 10 19:53 
 Tiling - how to clean up after you! - sherlock47
Dont wash unused tile cement /grout down the sink. Even if you think that copious water will wash it away, it doesn't! If you are lucky only the trap gets blocked!
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