Further tile grouting tips

I have just been given a further grouting tip that I am sure will work a treat, destroy your marriage possibly, but it sounds like a real help.

Beg or borrow a cake decorating or icing bag, there will be various metal tips with the bag, choose the one nearest in diameter to your required tile joint width.

Fill the bag with your freshly mixed grout, place the tip on the joint and squeeze moving the bag along the joint. With a bit of practice you should be able to fill the void with little or no overspill. It is easier to grout whole rows, rather than moving around each tile.

This is great for keeping porous tiles grout free or working joints that are difficult to get at.

Let the joints harden a little before shaping the grout into the joint, the wrong end of a toothbrush is good for this, but don't borrow the toothbrush from the same person you borrowed the icing bag from. A simple error, but one that could cost you dear.

Finally after about 30 minutes sweep the joints with a stiff brush, that toothbrush you just wrecked would be good.

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