Let Rick show you how he replaces the grout in a moldy shower stall with an epoxy product. This can be completed within 2 weekends, but drying time will always affect things!
hi it’s rick from Trade Secrets Inspections
and today we’re talking about the shower
remodel project
so here we are we’ve got it all
completed we’re going to take a look at
the before and after
and we’ll talk a little bit about how we
did what we did and why we did it so
here we have
a shower door that’s doing the classic
leaking at the corners and we have
edge problems on both sides
we have failing grout lines
so what we’re gonna do is take this door
out completely disassemble it and then
clean it up and put it back in and then
we’re gonna come in here
and we’re gonna get rid of all this
failing grout you can see here
and then we’re going to redo it with a
new product
that should remedy the problem for a
good while
okay here’s a shot of what we’re going
to use to do this project essentially what we
have here is just some basic power tools
some scraping devices a utility knife
abrasive disc which we’re going to give
a try and ultimately this is the product we’re
going to end up using
this is not your standard grout this is
a two-part epoxy grout
that is an adhesive base so it will
create a seal that is guaranteed not to crack and
it’ll bond to the tile so we’ll get a nice
water resistant bond on the surface
okay let’s give it a go
we’ve got this all scraped down wiped
down vacuumed out
clean it out take a look around you can
see that all the yucky spots have been removed
and that’s what’s key here is we’re not
gonna cover anything we’re gonna remove all of
the nasty and then put in new better
cleaning and we’ll be like brand new
okay so here’s our prepped ready to
grout stage
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and next what we’re gonna do is mix up
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some product and start making a
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mess essentially and then cleaning up
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the mess as we go
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and we’ll be good okay so we’ve got this
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all prepped up and cleaned up
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so now we’re going to start mixing our
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grout what i’ve done is i’ve split my
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grout
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in half i’m going to make two batches
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and this is a two-part epoxy so it will
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go off it’s a cure product so
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it only has a certain amount of open
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time i think it’s about an hour
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and then we’re out so i’m going to split
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it in half so i know i’ve
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had enough time to work with it all and
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make it up and then we’re
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just going to go as fast as we can and
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see how far we get
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so that’s what’s next
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okay so now that the shower has pretty
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much dried out
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and we’re nearly done i just wanted to
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take a second
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and show you the detail of how we
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cleaned up where the
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corner bead was all rusted out and a lot
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of water
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damage so what we did here was a little
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specific
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and if you look closely you can see that
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here
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down this is actually the epoxy ground
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this is all going to be waterproof and
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then from here
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up we top coated
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what was behind it all the epoxy grout
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with some drywall compound and then
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we’re going to paint this all to match
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so in the future as this gets wet which
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it will when the door opens and closes
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this product here will not ever
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deteriorate
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and we did that on both sides so that we
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know that
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we’ll have a lasting structure now
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behind what’s going on here in the paint
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all right
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so next step is to paint it we’ll clean
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it all up and then we’ll give you
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well good look at the whole finished
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product okay so we got it all put back
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together first of all we took the shower
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door out and we completely
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disassembled the shower door spent a
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good bit of time scraping off the old
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caulk and
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cleaning off all the old ground grout
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and whatever was on it
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and then we put it back together
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straightened the door out so the door is
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level now
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and then we sealed the bottom up so we
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keep we’re going to keep the water out
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of the bottom track this time
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it was uh all grown out with mold and
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there’s no way you’re going to keep that
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clean over time so we just sealed it up
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this time
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we also got rid of our rust and our
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decayed areas in the wall
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got that all fixed up and painted we’ve
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got the grout taken out
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and replaced with new epoxy grout that’s
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waterproof
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shrink proof mold proof and it’s
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adhesive at the same time so it fixes
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all your problems at once
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it was a little difficult to work with
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but it’s worth it so let’s take a look
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and you can see from before we had lots
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of voids and black spots and
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areas in the grout that were darkening
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and were mold covered
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and now it’s all gone and it’s nice and
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white and clean
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and also in particular here at the
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bottom at the
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pan wall line uh we got rid of all the
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caulk and this is all now grout products
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so this is all hard it’ll never come out
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we’ll never have water in there again
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so now this shower will be very easy to
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maintain
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and then we’ll look good for a good
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while now we’re going to need
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another 5-10 years out of it i’m rick
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trade secrets inspections and
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that’s how we fixed up an old shower