Episode 026 1995 - 96 Season

| House Inspector | Linseed Oil Uses | Tuck Pointing Brick | Homemade Potting Soil | Fixing Stuck Door | Cracked Grout | Caulking Windows | The CLOSING | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #026.


Fixing Cracks In Your Grout

Al Carrell: Tile is a very popular building material for inside bathrooms. It's long lasting and it's also very beautiful, but it does have a down side. First of all, it's very rigid, you have these grout lines in here and if there's any shifting, why it can cause little cracks to come up here. And also, it's subjected to a lot of moisture, and this also can cause problems. This has held up very well, there's no problem at all here except for right over here in the corner. The first thing you want to do is to take a tool of some sort, and I'm going to use the old punch type can opener called the church key, to get in here and remove any of the loose material, and get the old grout out of there. But I'm not going to take it all out because it's such a minor crack. And then we're going to take some new grout and I'm once again going to be using my favorite tool, the finger, and we'll put this right in the corner here. Once we get the grout all the way up and down here we want to come back with a towel and clean off any where we've slopped over, and then we're going to be in business. Now we used grout, but you could use caulk, and as a matter of fact, Michael is caulking a window as we speak.

Episode 026 1995 - 96 Season

| House Inspector | Linseed Oil Uses | Tuck Pointing Brick | Homemade Potting Soil | Fixing Stuck Door | Cracked Grout | Caulking Windows | The CLOSING | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #026.