Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[Jehannum]

There will always be upkeep with grout. And there are clearly better modern building materials to use.

Like waterproof contact paper!

 

[ZRH]

There will always be upkeep with grout. And there are clearly better modern building materials to use.

Not really. Nothing beats a real tile bath enclosure. The porosity of other materials and their durability isn't conducive to a wet environment.

Fiberglass looks like shit after a few years. Stone tends to be porous. Concrete is super porous and looks like shit, you have to basically get it sanded and sealed every few years. Anything vinyl or plastic is impossible to repair and will look like shit eventually.

All because you cant scrub the shower every few months with comet?

 

[fly]

Not really. Nothing beats a real tile bath enclosure. The porosity of other materials and their durability isn't conducive to a wet environment.

Fiberglass looks like shit after a few years. Stone tends to be porous. Concrete is super porous and looks like shit, you have to basically get it sanded and sealed every few years. Anything vinyl or plastic is impossible to repair and will look like shit eventually.

All because you cant scrub the shower every few months with comet?

What the hell are you doing in your shower that you need to repair things in it?

 

[Jehannum]

What the hell are you doing in your shower that you need to repair things in it?

takes him a minute to mix a batch due to his advanced age.

 

[ZRH]

What the hell are you doing in your shower that you need to repair things in it?

I mean, do you really want to know?

 

[fly]

takes him a minute to mix a batch due to his advanced age.

 

[Domon]

There will always be upkeep with grout. And there are clearly better modern building materials to use.

8 year old unsanded grout, 1/16 spacing, grey in color, sealed on installation.



Looks just about like it did new, never done anything except wet mop the floor

 

[fly]

8 year old unsanded grout, 1/16 spacing, grey in color, sealed on installation.



Looks just about like it did new, never done anything except wet mop the floor

That's not a shower then.

 

[Domon]

nah, thats floor tile, you're right

 

[ZRH]

nah, thats floor tile, you're right

You can't let him ha e the upper hand!

 

[fly]

You can't let him ha e the upper hand!

It really doesn't matter. I've made up my mind. Tile is a dumb building material these days.

 

[ZRH]

It really doesn't matter. I've made up my mind. Tile is a dumb building material these days.

Ur dumb

 

[fly]

 

[kiwi]

My favorite shower enclosures are solid marble slabs. So easy to keep clean.

We have a whole wall of those blasted clear blocks and thick grout currently and they are a massive pain to clean.

 

[ZRH]

My favorite shower enclosures are solid marble slabs. So easy to keep clean.

We have a whole wall of those blasted clear blocks and thick grout currently and they are a massive pain to clean.

Just hire a housekeeper, it's like $50 and they clean your house once a week.

 

[Mikeawesome]

Just hire a housekeeper, it's like $50 and they clean your house once a week.

maybe for you at your local car wash. housekeepers are expensive.

 

[ZRH]

maybe for you at your local car wash. housekeepers are expensive.

Car wash is only $25 a month, girl I know cleans once a week, $50 a house, it's not really detailed but they do scrub the bathroom

 

[fly]

Car wash is only $25 a month, girl I know cleans once a week, $50 a house, it's not really detailed but they do scrub the bathroom

That's fucking cheap.

 

[Domon]

during the mid-winter months we do the 25 buck a month car wash thing. Unlimited washes and for the couple months of marginally ugly winter here its nice to rinse off the salt and muck.

 

[gee]

Wash my car? that's what rain is for.