Grout in the joints.

Last Monday was a holiday in Argentina, and I spent most of it replacing the (grout) between the bathroom tiles.

I've been doing some Internet search and I believe I'm right in calling the mortar-thingy I used grout, and the interstices between the tiles joints.

Could anyone confirm this or correct me?

Hedwig said:

Last Monday was a holiday in Argentina, and I spent most of it replacing the (grout) between the bathroom tiles.

I've been doing some Internet search and I believe I'm right in calling the mortar-thingy I used grout, and the interstices between the tiles joints.

Could anyone confirm this or correct me?

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The white stuff that you use to fill the spaces between tiles is certainly called "grout". And having now done some research of my own, I can confirm that the spaces between tiles are indeed called "joints".

You learn something new every day.

Thank you both.
And I'll be re-doing part of it next week-end, J&K, because I didn't do such a neat job. But now I've got experience, which I didn't have on Monday.

Edit: I'm sure there was another answer by J&K Tutoring but now I'ts disappeared.

Second emsr2d2's confirmation and will add that, in the US, the word grout can also be used as a verb:

I spent the weekend grouting the tiles in my bathroom.

Tradesman to homeowner: "I'll come back tomorrow to grout the tiles."
He might also use the term 'grout in' to mean the same thing.

Don't forget to apply a sealer to the grout!

Oh, I see. You deleted your first post and wrote another one. So I'm not going mental.

Thanks for the further information--grout as a verb. :up:

"To grout" means the same in BrE. I'm rubbish at grouting!

Hedwig-
Yeah, that's the trouble with this kind of job. It requires experience to do a good job, but of course you don't have experience until after the job's done... :roll:

Experience is what you know today that you needed to know yesterday.

SoothingDave said:

Experience is what you know today that you needed to know yesterday.

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Or, as someone else once put it, it's a comb you get when you've grown bald.