Grouting & Sealing Travertine tiles

[steve]

Hi All,

Does anyone know what the procedure is for grouting and sealing travertine tiles? I know the tiles are quite porous and can stain easily if they are not sealed so I`m nervous about grouting first. I can see though that if I grout first I will be able to seal the grout as well & stop that from being stained. My thoughts were to just grout carefully first using a pointing gun or similar rather than spread the grout all over the tiles and then wipe off.

Steve

[David]

I would definitely seal first then grout. Then you can use a second coat of sealer to do the grout as well. I have often sealed the tiles before laying to save staining them with adhesive etc.

The spreading all over method is much faster.

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David

[The Natural Philosopher]

Seal first, two coats or three, then grout, then seal again, two or more coats.