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[email protected] gfretwell@aol.com is offline
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Default How to remove concrete Grout

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:42:20 -0500, wrote:

I bought a house with a nice outdoor, flat stone tiled walk way.
Unfortunately the tiler/installer was "quite sloppy" in a few areas.
There many of the tiles now have a thin, but annoyingly Noticeble
coating "film" of concrete grout on the top.

I have tried coarse steel wool, with limited (slow) improvement. Is
there a better/ recommended way, to remove that concrete film? I
would really like all tiles to be fully visible, no film.

PS I am NOW aware that I Inadvertently, first posted this question to
another board I follow -electronic repair. Surely my oops


Very dilute muriatic acid will do the job
(Sparks tile cleaner)
Test it on a piece of the tile first tho.
If this is porcelain tile is shouldn't hurt it but it will eat quarry
tile.