At a friend’s house and he had a ThisOld House episode on the tube
when they show a tile guy who cleaned up his grout lines using drygrout and damp sawdust. Didn’t wipe a speck with a sponge.
Said he’d learned it from his father who’d been doing it that way a long time.
Got me to thinking about maybe trying it.
Anyone ever?
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Why? All you are left with when you sponge is a pail of dirty water. I can't imagine how you clean up damp sawdust and drygrout from new tiles. Maybe you use a sponge?
what are you gonna do about the sawdust that gets ground into the grout????
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It actually works quite well, and it goes quickly. It's also good for tile that has a rough or abrasive surface, like commercial tile with anti-slip grit in the glaze. Tile like that can shred grout sponges.
When you're ready to clean the floor, dump sawdust on the floor and slightly moisten it. Then push it around with a soft-bristle push broom. You might have to change out the sawdust depending on the amount of floor that needs to be cleaned.
Another is to use a piece of burlap.
It works very well.
When using unsanded white grout, I have used dry grout and burlap with good success. Pretty smooth tile surface......
I think alot depends on the tile surface texture, or lack thereof.
Have not tried saw dust or the same trick with sanded grout.
The resulting dust was cleaned up easily with the vac.
Jim
I've been doing something similar for years. I buy cheap terry cloth towels and scrub the tiles with the towels, careful not to get to aggressive in grout lines.
Then take a fine hand broom and sweep dust up, tool grout lines with damp sponge. Hardly any mess and just a very slight haze when it dries, buff haze after with clean towel.
If I recall, this was in a situation where they had irregular tiles and didn't want the grout level to be below the tile surface, as is the usual case when using a grout sponge and water.
just saw this yesterday(?) and remember him saying something about only using the sawdust on wide joints(?)
tried to find a video but nada.
Yes, I remember him speccing the wide joints.