As we inherited this crazy bathroom, the back wall of the shower was completely ungrouted, the left wall was sloppily grouted in blue and unsealed, and the right wall was partially and randomly grouted in 2 different colors of grout, also unsealed. The right wall is where I’d been removing the grout with the oscillating tool, getting covered in blue dust and often nicking the tiles in the process.

Well last night I decided to just dive in and try grouting for myself.

The result is the back wall, grouted in tan:

I’m pretty pleased with my efforts.

But the more time we spent working on and thinking about how to improve this tile, the more we realized the installation is pretty bad all around. So we’re onto plan B—or is it C? D?—which is painting over the whole thing with an epoxy-based product that will seal the whole thing and—bonus!—not require sanding the tile face.

And I think we can get that done before we leave in a few days.

More photos to come.