Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Grout!!!

Warning, warning!!!

Slightly gross bathroom photo follows!

Not that!

Just the shower floor. Years and years of our well-water have left it stained.

I've applied every chemical sold at Lowe's to get the scaly rust-colored deposits off the tile and grout.

Nothing touches it.


Duane had an idea - "why don't you use the Muriatic Acid like we etch concrete with"?   Excellent idea.

If you try this at home, you MUST have a respirator.  Luckily, Duane has one he uses when he paints.  You literally would not be able to breath without it.

After much acidic smokey bubbling - and just a minor scuffing with a bristle brush - the tile was miraculously clean!!  Just like new!  The acid actually softens the grout a bit and I scraped some of it away.  

After it was all washed up - I re-grouted the entire shower.



And now for the "after" shot.  I am just tickled!  Shiny and really good-as-new!!

2 comments:

affectioknit said...

That is so AMAZING! You can hardly tell in the first photo that the tile is a sort of tan colour...

...wishing my bathroom problems were as easily solved...

Love,

T

Unknown said...

bathroom looks great! I was just talking to Dad about how we haven't been out to see you in a while! Maybe we could work on this???
-B