Shower regrouting and grout repair in Adelaide

Clean or regrout? How to tell

What you see	What it needs
Grout is dark, stained or mouldy but hard and in one piece	Clean, and colour seal if it stays patchy
Grout is cracked along the lines or has hairline gaps at the tile edge	Regrout the affected lines
Grout is powdery, crumbles when scratched, or washes out	Regrout
Grout is missing in sections, especially on the floor or around the drain	Regrout before water gets behind the tiles
Silicone in the corners is black and won’t clean	Re-silicone (included in a regrout)
Tiles are loose, hollow or drummy; water stains on the other side of the wall	Waterproofing or tiling specialist, not us

What a shower regrout involves

1. Inspection and quote. The tiler looks at the recess, checks for loose tiles and signs of water behind them, measures the grout to be replaced and gives you a fixed quote. You can send photos first for a steer.
2. Rake out. The old grout is cut out of the joints to a proper depth, by hand or with an oscillating tool, and the old silicone is removed from the corners and base.
3. Clean and dry. Dust and debris are vacuumed out, the joints cleaned, and the area left to dry.
4. Regrout. New grout is worked into the joints, shaped and cleaned off the tiles. Colour is matched to the existing grout or changed if you prefer.
5. Re-silicone. New silicone is run along the corners, the base and around fittings.
6. Cure. Allow around 24 to 48 hours before using the shower; the tiler confirms the time.

Grout repair on floors and walls

Not every job is a full regrout. Cracked or missing sections in a kitchen floor, a hallway or a splashback can be repaired on their own, with the new grout matched as closely as possible to the old. The join is rarely invisible on very old grout; a clean and colour seal of the whole area afterwards gives one even colour if that matters to you.

What it costs

There is no fixed price on this page, on purpose. A regrout can be one wall of a small recess or a whole floor-to-ceiling shower with failed silicone and a couple of loose tiles, and the two jobs are hours apart. The tiler quotes after seeing it. For a sense of the range, read how much shower regrouting costs in Adelaide, which uses marketplace and industry figures rather than ours.

What we don’t do

• Leaking-shower repairs where the waterproofing has failed
• Waterproofing membranes
• Re-tiling or replacing cracked tiles
• Epoxy grout removal (possible, but a different job; ask)

Tile and grout cleaning and sealing are not building work, so no licence is needed for them in South Australia. Regrouting and grout repair are treated as building work, so they are quoted separately and carried out by a licensed tiler.