Grouting Travetine Tiles

[soulhawk]

Hello folks.
We are having our kitchen updated and we are having parts of it tiled with Travetine Tiles from Wickes.
They are like mosaic tiles on a sheet.
They are full of natural imperfections and my best mate who is doing the work is a bit baffled at how to grout them.
It say's on the back of the box to use Beige Grout, but he seems to think that this will take away the appeal of the natural effect.
Can someone advise me please?

[m3 fitter]

Hi Soulhawk,
Not sure wether wickes travertine tiles are filled or not, remember to seal them first a couple of times, and grout with a Travertino or limestone flexible grout as opposed to beige, if they have holes then slurry grout them ie: all over the tile aswell to fill the holes, remember to seal properly can't stress enough or the additive within the flexible grout will adhere to the tile and or the tile will take on the dye from the grout. When the grout is dry, seal again. Hope it helps, here's some travertine with limestone grout http://www.ascottiling.co.uk/bathroom_2.htm for your perusal

[wine~o]

Interesting images M3 perhaps they need a "Handyman" to fit a loo roll dispenser...

[soulhawk]

Thanks for replying m3.
The tiles we have are full of little holes and imperfections.
My mate is worried about the grout filling the holes and knacking up the natural look.
I will try to take a photo and post it.
Take care mate.

[tictic]

they are unfilled,so you will need to infill with a good grout,look into mapei ultracolor,they have an online colour chart about 25-30 colours to choose from,as m3 has said you will need to seal them.

also make sure they have all the same batch number on the boxes mate...the sheds have a habbit off just topping up the boxes, so mix up all the batch number,so you could end up with differant shades