How to Grout Vinyl Floor Tiles?

And that's what I like about these vinyl tiles. I've never really seen this before until I came over here. So I wanted to show you what he was doing and if he can do it you can do it too. Okay and you know some vinyl tiles that you get at the store are just really super thin and they're just designed to fold down there but see these are a little bit heavier duty. They're about 3 16ths to a quarter inch thick and that gives you just enough room that if you want to put spacers out between them then you can put spacers then you can add some grout and then it just looks like regular ceramic grout tiles. Wow that's cool. All right so you're you're going to go ahead and put some more grout down. Thanks for showing me how to put one of those down. Now the other thing was you ended up with full tiles here and you're going to have pretty much full tiles at this other end too aren't you? Yes. But on these sides I see that you're going to have to cut these tiles in. You've got a couple inches over there you even got about eight or maybe seven eight inches over here so you're going to have to do some cutting but you're going to go ahead and you're just going to grout this right now. Yeah I'm going to go ahead and start grouting. Any reason why you're going to do that and not wait until the rest of the tiles are done? You just want to do it? Yeah I just want to get it get it over with you know because the cutting kind of takes a while you know so might as well jump into the grouting real quick because it's nice and easy to get that done so that way it's dry. All right so you've got some pre-mixed grout here are you using sanded or non-sanded grout? So we use sanded. Okay simple grout and here's the color earth and it's sanded and sanded just means that if you've got bigger grout lines you want to use a sanded as opposed to non-sanded. I probably want to use non-sanded if you have maybe a eight a sixteenth of an inch grout line or something like that so that's all pre-mixed up. Yep. And so you're just going to take it just like that put it put it in huh? Yeah that's how that's how it is. All right go for it man. Go ahead and grab some and then wherever you're going to go ahead and do it just slap it on so you kind of want to push and then sway push swipe okay we're going to watch it we're going to watch how you do it an untrained unprofessional showing that if the sway here can do it you can do this same thing get the same types of results now you could use you know one of those paddle things and do it over the entire floor I don't think he's got one of those he's just going to use this little putting knife run it over there yep so once you get most of it in there um I kind of try to not put so much down at one time you know because it's easier to clean up yeah and I got myself a bucket with water over here with the sponge you're going to wipe this off right here now huh yes it's pretty pretty simple you know just go ahead and put it like a good like a good amount like how I just did right now you know and get your sponge get all the water off and then with one side just go ahead and start wiping it off that's how that's how you're doing yes that's all I'm doing this right here so you go ahead and uh get this all wiped down and then once you got the majority of it then you flip it to the other side and then get the rest now will this stuff will this grout um when it gets done drying do you think you're going to have to use cheesecloth on here too to clean it or or do you just leave it just like this no I just uh we leave it like this um after after you're done with the whole floor and and all the all the grouts done drying you're going to want to put some some uh to call it the sealer yeah sealant on top of it just on the grout line yeah just on that so that way you know you can go ahead and mop over this floor without having any of the okay come off or damaging it so and that's how you did that's how you did this other room here right you did it the same way that you're doing it now you put the grout on and you did it little by little and you wiped it right off uh-huh that's how it's done okay yeah so that's that's like one little section right there and you can once you're done with that go ahead and grab your tool and just go ahead and continue on to the next piece wherever you want to go to next so you got yourself a three dollar tool to scrape with the glue off and put the grout on and you probably used that you didn't use many other tools did you no um not to take off the the glue from the from the old carpet you know probably have like a hammer handy you know just if you want to yeah chip it all away because it's kind of hard to scrape just scrape it off with your right just force you know certainly i see i see these glue lines yeah because you want to get those ridges off uh-huh you want to get it as flat and smooth as possible when you're doing this so that way yeah it sticks on real nice and easy now see i've seen guys put grout on before and and like professional guys and they'll let it sit there for until they do the whole room they take have you seen them take a trowel it's like a sponge trowel or rubber trowel and they put it all over the floor and wipe it all in let it dry and then they wipe it off but you're not doing it that way you're just doing it this way and it seems to work for what you're doing no it's for you know i'm not very familiar like you know like uh with big big old you know yeah i can see maybe they have their methods for a small room like this you know it's not a problem to go ahead and just take it easy like this and wipe as you go yeah you just have to have a nice not too hard when you're wiping it off so you get it so you get the grooves down too much right yeah all you do is just see lightly you kind of just hover above it to get the the right the sand off of the tile up here but then you don't want to push down too hard because then you start getting the all this middle stuff right you're going to pull some of that out so yeah but it's it's very lightly and then you flip it once it's all brown on this side you know go ahead and flip it around and get the other side rinse it off and that's how that's how you've done this whole area over here already yes and um it's looking pretty good man thank you keep it up i'm gonna come back in a little bit and see how you're doing okay all right thank you