Travertine Tile With Grey Grout

Need to choose grout color for travertine tile.

Travertine tile with grey grout.

The msi trevi gray ledger panel natural travertine the msi trevi gray ledger panel natural travertine wall tile is a natural stone travertine with a beautifully neutral blend of contemporary silver and gray tones. What color grout to use with gray tile. The additional structure of sanded grout is needed for wider grout joints from 1 8 to 5 8 and some even can go as wide as 1. Generally unsanded grout is used for tile applications with narrower grout joints from 1 16 to 1 8.

When do you use sanded vs. Water vapor escaping the stone as it hardened and cooled formed. Tumbled travertine tile is a calcium based stone that was formed deep inside hot springs. With gray tiles we always recommend matching the grout with tiles.

How to grout tumbled travertine tile. If a matching grout is used it just won t look like travertine. Contrast of tile and grout. But if warm gray isn t what you had in mind for a particular project there are a ton of other colors to choose from that mapei makes.

That s the same exact grout color warm gray everywhere in the picture above although it looks grayer when it s next to the white subway tile and lighter when it s next to the dark floor tile. Comments 3 custom building products 45 summer wheat or bonsal pro spec 33 honey. This will darken the overall color off the travertine tile but the natural look of the holes will remain and the holes will be filled. As long as the travertine tiles are well bonded to the substrate that you cut open the joints so they are about 1 8 inch wide that you clean the joints thoroughly and let them dry and then if you install a polymer modified cementitious grout meeting ansi a118 7 per the manufacturer s directions it should perform well.

Use non sanded grout for joints that are narrowing measuring under 1 8 inch. Use sanded grout when measuring over 1 8 inch. Grout in a darker color can be chosen to fill the holes and lines for contrast. Tumbled travertine tile has many dips curves holes and natural surfaces which give it its character but also makes it more difficult to grout.