Tile Sealing

I sealed the grout in our shower today. The 48 hours of grout drying was over, so it was time. I really had no idea what I was doing. When my Mom and I were at Home Depot we had picked up a sealant applicator bottle. I don’t really know what I was thinking when we bought this product, other than- we need anything that is going to make this process as easy as possible.

That little wheel on top has the consistency of a salt lick.

I put the sealant into the applicator bottle and tried to use it, following their directions. Using this method the sealant did not touch the grout. The hard salt lick-like applicator wouldn’t fit into the corner, where the grout is. So I gave up on that idea and went and found a nice little artist paint brush.

This method of painting on the liquid seemed to work pretty well. About halfway through my second coat of sealant the brush began losing bristles at an alarming pace. I was afraid we were going to have lots of bristles sealed into our grout, but they seemed to come right off of the grout.

I wish the sealant had much more directions than it did. Basically it just said that hard surfaces would need one coat, grout and porous surfaces would need two or more. I put on four.

I could not tell at all if it was working, absorbing or not absorbing. The bottle said, if water was absorbing into your grout than you would need to use sealant. So I splashed some water on it. It looked wet. I have no idea if it absorbed into the grout or not. I do not have a microscope.

Hopefully it worked. We really don’t want to have to scrape the grout out again. That is not fun.