Remove grout

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Remove grout

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What's the easiest way to trim gone off grout in between floor tiles?
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Eh.....


Trim gone of grout....?.... :dunno: ...?
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Lol,prob my explanation...ive got a larger than the gap between the floor tiles gap behind where the rad pipes enter the room. The grout has gone off hard here and is proud of the tiles. I want to trim this down to put a pipe collar on!
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If there's room and your careful I'd chisel it out gently,
Though my opinion might change when we can see the pictures,
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Heres the pic, hopefully helps!
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any more advice, please? :)
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As has been said above, carefully chisel/scrape it down.
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Ok thanks,what type of chisel shoukd i use?
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An old wood chisel would be OK.
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Looks wet around the pipe and also seems like the tile is cracked, unless it is a hair on the floor.
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It's definitely not wet, the grout hasn't gone off the same colour consistently in some places oh and that's a hair lol
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Did you tile the floor yourself? that cut out is shocking at the very least there should be a piece of tile in behind the pipe not just packed with grout
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that's not very helpful line of interrogation there hagoh.

As Darren suggests i would carefully and slowly chisel/scrape down and remove excess.
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haha no i didnt do it myself, I get your point though and one of the reason im putting the pipe collars on!
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Re: Remove grout

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I would have the tiler back to sort it out personally but as others have said use a narrow wood chisel and go carefully
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