Is the requested color reasonable? Is it in accordance with recommendations of the tile manufacturer and tile industry?
• Many manufacturers provide matching grout colors for each color of tile. It is believed that they do this to prevent the staining of light tile with dark grout. • Many glazed tile will not be stained regardless of the color of the grout used. Many glazed tile do have a type of glaze that will be stained by the grout. Compatible colored tile (subject to staining) and matching colored grout will usually not show as much as dark grout. This prone-to-stain kind of tile can be kept clean, and grouted with dark colored grout, if the glazed surface is treated first. This can be done by treatment with a filler, which leaves no film on the tile, or with paraffin wax that must be removed after grouting. • The grout joints are too wide! • It has been found that most complaints on this are justified. • Although some manufacturers do not seem to understand the proper width of the joint, most of them do. Many installations, found to be too wide, are not as recommended by the manufacturer who has r
