Can I regrout and recaulk my shower stalls myself
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Anonymous
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We just bought our first home. We have two 3' by 3' shower stalls with acrylic shower pans and 4' by 4" tiles on the walls. Some of the grout between the tiles fallen out/missing. And they need recaulking. One of the bathrooms will probably need to be completely redone in a few years - the shower pan looks terrible - but I don't think we're ready for a full bathroom renovation - it is a master with a separate bathtub and I expect it to cost a lot if we want everything to look consistent.
I am not a handy person and have zero experience with home improvement projects but I am pretty determined once I start something. Is it a terrible idea to do this myself? Or should I just hire a handyman? Several hundred bucks is no big deal for us right now, though I am tempted to do it just for the satisfaction of doing something myself. |
Anonymous
| Call grout doctor. We had them to our 30 year old home when we moved in and the results were absolutely stunning. Shower pan is still ugly but the grout and tiling in all of our bathrooms looks brand new now! |
Anonymous
| watch a couple of YouTube videos and then decide. It sounds harder and more intimidating than it is |
Anonymous
I mean, I'd call a handyman  but DH redid our grout in our bathtub/shower last year and it looked great. It just took some time is all. He's not particularly handy but it was more painstaking work than hard/complicated.
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Anonymous
This amd don’t fall it the master anymore. Primary. |
Anonymous
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It is really time consuming especially if you have small tiles. You have to cut out all the grout and caulk and clean that up. It can take many hours or days.
The recaulking and regrouting is a piece of cake compared to that. |
Anonymous
| If you are a determined person go for it. It's not hard, just takes some patience. I just did it for a small area of our shower the other day. Make sure you have a good tool to cut out/break up the grout and have all the other supplies on hand. |
Anonymous
Go away |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Yes, of course. Lots of videos on how. The best thing I found for grout cleaning was a steam cleaner. |
Anonymous
I don't even understand what this person is trying to say. |
Anonymous
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I considered fixing cracked grout in our shower, watched a few videos, and decided to call in the professionals. My large shower will cost $650 to completely rehab, and it going to take ~6 hours. It sounds messy and they have to match colors to our old grout. I don’t have the time and I’m sure I would have been unhappy with the job I did. I’m hoping it’s money well spent to let the pros do it.
Fwiw I did call the local Grout Doctor and their quote was quite a bit higher than another company that was recommended by a neighbor. So consider a 2nd quote before you decide. |
Anonymous
NP. There are some people that think that master bedroom and master bath are sexist and are trying to eliminate the use of those terms. They want you to call it the owner's bedroom, bathroom, suite, etc. Or some other gender neutral term. I think this is taking gender neutral to an illogical extreme, but, they can try to change the terms; I just think they are fighting a battle that very few want to have. |
Anonymous
I thought it was considered racist due to the word master being used to denote the white guy in charge of the plantation. |
Anonymous
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/master-bedroom-racist-words-blacklist-whitelist-20200722.html?outputType=amp |