Grouting rough unglazed tiles

Point them up as a bricklayer would. i.e just apply grout to the joints and not swish it across the face. I doubt your tiles are rougher than bricks.

Parellel strips of masking tape on either side of the joint might help.

mark

Not a total solution on its own, but a real rubber tiler's sponge (couple of quid from Axminster) works far better than a tuppence ha'penny pan scourer.

Can you get rubber tiles for walls? :-)

After grouting "gres" tiles which are unglazed and have a "broken" edge started to send me insane - I was spending more time cleaning than grouting - I got a mortar gun and used that to apply the grout to the gaps. Much easier than a squegee or sponge.

Don't be stupid!

It's the tiler that's real rubber, not the tiles.

;)

No idea, but you can get them for floors.

Price of the things is truly staggering though! They look the business, but just not affordable.

Great idea, thanks! I went to the tile place to see what they had and they looked at me as if I was mad :) (Not far out actually). But on the old internet I found a better idea of using a grout bag, like an icing bag. Amazon sell them.

Here are the tiles she selected:

I'm going to take you up on the tape idea Mark, thanks!

I don't know, it depends on the tiles and the grout. When I tried it on ours erindoors told me to clean it off.

Peter Taylor coughed up some electrons that declared:

Looks like travertine, in the absence of anything on the website!

In which case, yes, you do fill the holes with grout - or the tiles are supplied ready filled.

Cheers

Tim

I think I'd use ivory coloured grout on those tiles.

mark

Thanks. You're right - that's what they recommended as well. The colour I bought is called Jasmine (but it's ivory) :)

I have a few tiles left over so I'm going to do two tests to see how it looks, just grouting the joints and filling the holes with grout as well. Thanks for all the help.