I’m grouting a bathroom with Durabond tile grout (color is Haystack) and I’m trying to find a matching caulk or silicone to fill the joints around the tub and floor. I can’t reach anyone at Durabond and all the tile stores I’ve called only carry white and clear. Has anyone had any experiences matching a caulk with a grout? Is there any way of mixing something on my own? The color is close to a beige.
TB
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Keep looking. My local big-box store sells a whole line of caulks colored to match their standard grout colors. It doesn't happen to be Durabond, but they do have a beige, and I expect other manufacturers will have one too.
I don't even think there is such a thing as clear grout/caulk! That would just be silicone. Has to be a tile shop in the area that has the right stuff.
But even the HD and Lowes has regular beige caulk. Jeff "That's like hypnotizing chickens........."
Color Caulk, San Bernadino CA, makes an entire line of colored, sanded caulks that match the major mfg's colors. HD and the like don't carry it, but the speciality tile stores do.
Shelley
There are beige, brown, grey, etc. bathroom caulks, like DAP. I once had this brilliant idea to mix two colours and then use a glue syringe to apply it (to make a grout line between an add-on sunroom and the main house where that joint tended to flex a little and continually crack the grout) - couldn't get it to work, I couldn't get the colours to blend before the caulk hardened (??), maybe there's a trick to it. I have seen the result of putting a filler layer of paintable caulk down first, painting it with an automotive touch-up felt-pen, and then coating that with a thin layer of clear bath caulk - looked okay from a distance, but not close up.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
I had the same problem some time ago. It was blue grout (don't ask). Couldn't find caulk even close. Took white caulk out of tube, mixed it with dark blue paint until it was the right color. Let it set for a while (mixing in paint made it way too thin.) Put it back in CLEAN tube. Caulk away. Didn't have any problems and it still looks good a year afterwards. So far, so good.
Also check the countertop section in HD - lowes. Sometimes they have odd colored caulk to match formica.
Did you try a real tile store, not just HD or Lowes. I can honestly say my supplier has 30 different colors of caulk.
Good luck.
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