SPECTRALOCK PRO Premium® Durable Stain Proof High Performance East to Use Non Sag Epoxy Tile Grout Mini Parts A&B, 2lb

Going into this job, my huge concern was being able to get the excess grout cleaned up before it dried and made a hazy mess all over my tile. Boy did I put my concern into the wrong area! Take a first timers word for it...the REAL concern is getting this stuff pushed into the grout joints without your arm falling off! I decided to go with the mini kits so I could do one wall at a time and not risk having a big batch wasted if I couldnt finish fast enough, and im sure glad I made that decision. By the time I got to the bottom of the first wall, I barely had the arm strength to finish. This stuff will wear you out. It doesnt flow very well and even though I used a polyurethane grout float, it still required tons of arm strength to get it pushed into the joints. I would say this was EASILY the hardest part of the whole install. Cleanup was a breeze. I spent about an hour from when I mixed it to when I finished applying it to the wall. Then I walked away for 15-20 mins before the first wash. I used the sponge and followed the directions. That took probably 85% of the excess off. Then I let it sit another 45 minutes or so before the final wash. I used a white scotch pad dipped in the rinse water to do a quick scrub, and immediately wiped the area down with a dry microfiber rag. This got rid of any remaining haze to about 99%. After that I took a fresh microfiber along with the slightly damp used one I had from the previous step, and did a "wax on, wax off" motion going tile by tile. A few circular swipes with the damp one followed immediately by drying the tile with the fresh one was the final touch in restoring the full gloss of the tile and eliminating any slight haze left. Dry time was a non issue for me personally. From the time I mixed the batch to the time I finished the wall completely with the final rinse was a good 3-3 1/2 hours and the grout haze was still coming off without much fight. Coloring was a perfect match between all 3 batches as well. I cant speak for longevity, but i will say this stuff dries HARD as a rock. During cleanup a few days after, i had a dried chunk on the floor about 1/8" thick, and i could not physically break it in half. Very impressive. Overall im pumped with how the final result looks, and would definitely recommend this stuff.

I learned so much from the reviews here I want to pay it forward for all you out there who are thinking about using this Spectralock Premium Pro grout. This stuff is GREAT. What everyone else has said is true, you will be FINE as long as you follow the directions and tips. Have everything ready before you start mixing; and I mean everything – get your sponges, wash water, floats, scale, buckets, rags, microfiber clothes, ice, mixing sticks, scale – EVERYthing together before you start mixing. Mix small batches. For the floor you can do 1:1:6.6; for the walls I did 1:1:6. This works out to 50 grams of Part A, 50 grams of Part B and 330 grams of sand (Part C) for the floors, 300 grams of sand for the walls. It is better to mix too little than too much at a time. It’s not hard to mix and measure, and you won’t get ‘seams’ where different batches meet but it’s expensive and it doesn’t stay workable all that long. I used a plastic kitchen spatula to mix my grout for the floors, a regular epoxy grout float for the floors, a QEP margin float for the walls, and I bought a digital kitchen scale for measuring. I’m including links to these at the end of this review, but I found most of them locally. I mixed the grout in plastic quart sized yogurt containers – but I only mixed the 50:50:300/330 mixture except for when I did the shower floor. My shower floor is 1x1 inch tiles and only 58x32 inches so I mixed a whole Mini set to do that part and used the plastic bucket that the Mini set came in to mix it. Since the colder the grout, the longer it lasts, I put the whole kit in the refrigerator over night before mixing. I also kept the room as cool as I could (I lucked out with the weather so most of the time the room was about 67 degrees) and I also put ice in a bucket and kept the grout in the bucket after I mixed it. The Laticrete website says to dump all the grout out at once, but I didn’t do that – on the floors I spread it out in small batches that I scooped up with the mixing spatula, worked that in and then scooped up another bit. On the walls I scooped it up with the spatula and put it right on the end of the margin float. I got the margin float after trying to use the full-sized float on the walls. My shower wall tiles are 12x24 with 1/16” grout lines and the regular sized trowel was annoyingly large. If your tiles are smaller you probably can just use the regular float. I had grouted once before using regular cement-based grout. If you have grouting experience, the actual grouting is not that different; you have to push a little harder, but otherwise it’s a very similar process. Push it into the grout lines at a diagonal, from both directions and then scrape off the extra with the float at almost 90 degrees. The clean up is the part that you really have to pay attention to. Do your first wash 20-30 minutes after starting your grouting. Get your grout lines the way you like them with this wash. Rinse with plain clean water after you've washed with the solution. If you aren’t going to use the initial wash water again you can use it to wash your grout float and spatula now. If you are going to use the initial wash water again you can clean up your tools with water that has ½-1 cup of vinegar in it. Do a final wash of your tools with soapy water and rinse. Put any extra grout in a zip lock bag, push all the air out and stick it in the freezer for filling in bits and pieces you might have missed or to use later. Your final wash needs to be done 30-60 minutes after your first one. Use a white plastic scrubber (I picked one up in the tile aisle) and the final rinse solution and scrub the tiles in a circular motion. Then use a sponge and the final rinse solution to wipe up the stuff from the tile. Then wipe with plain water. I did the final scrub/wipe/rinse twice. Then on the wall of the shower I used terry cloth rags to wipe the surface dry and then microfiber clothes to polish them (my tile is highly polished porcelain). I did not wear gloves during this final dry/polish phase so I could feel the tile to see if any haze was left on them. Those microfiber clothes are AMAZING. And just as an aside, the Laticrete calculator for determining how much grout you need is very accurate. The shower floor used a LOT of grout since there are so many lines with 1x1 tiles and I kind of freaked out when I saw how much it used and ordered more grout, but I didn’t need it. I hope this helps! 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