I have finished tiling my shower and am ready to grout. The walls are LFT 6×24 tiles and the floor is natural stone pebbles. The grout color for the wall tiles is slightly darker than the grout color for the floor. Do I grout the walls or the floor first?
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Very nice looking job Jared, congratulations! It is very normal for unsealed grout to change to a darker color when wet. This will happen even with fully cured grout. Feel free to buff any excess grout or haze off your tiles, it won't hurt anything and that also is normal for newly installed tile. If the darker color when wet bothers you, then go ahead and put a couple of coats of grout sealer on after about two weeks from the original grout date. Even though the manufacture claims stain resistance, it does not claim to stop the temporary color shift when wet. Sealing the surface of the grout will stop the wetting of the grout and end the color changes. You may find you need to reapply some sealer every year or so in a shower surround. Apply the sealer with a small foam brush just to the grout, Buff excess off the tiles 15 to 20 mins later. Looks Great!!! Good Luck.
If you really want to prevent any grout getting stuck in the dimples of the tile you need to mask it off. Yes- I know.. every single tile? Unfortunately, yes.
Style and beauty is hard work.
But you can use the wide masking tapes and then just try to grout as cleanly as possible. Do not smear the grout allover the tile. Keep to the area you want to grout. Possibly apply grout with a grouting tool then smooth it with a sponge; washing it regularly.
Once its all dr peel the masking tape away. Viola.
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I can not think of a reason that it matters.
I would do the walls first, i would protect the floor with some heavy duty plastic sheeting taped down at the edges.
Wait a day and Then do the floor, use painter tape around the base of the walls.
After the grout has cure for a day then you can pull the tape off the walls and caulk the joint where the floor meets the walls with 100% silicone, mold and mildew resistant caulk.