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We used to offer grout color sealing. We stopped — it never bonds correctly, it needs constant touch-ups, and it locks you into a yearly re-do cycle. Here's what we do instead.
If you're searching for grout color sealing, here's the honest answer from a 13-year operator: we used to offer it, and we stopped. Color sealing lays a pigmented coating over your grout to make it look uniform. The problem is it never bonds correctly — it peels, it needs constant touch-ups, and it locks you into re-doing it every year for the life of the floor. It's a trick used to dress up a home for sale, and the customer pays for it forever.
We won't put our name on something that fails. Instead, we deep-clean the grout with high-pressure hot-steam extraction and a spinning vortex tool that shears the buildup off and neutralizes the grout in one pass. Most of the time, once it's actually clean, it comes back looking incredible.
Where grout is permanently stained, we do real grout repair — we remove the stained grout and re-grout it, color-matched to your clean grout so it blends in for good. Then we protect it with a real penetrating sealer that soaks in and stops the grout from drinking up every spill. That's a permanent fix, not a yearly cosmetic patch.
View full Tile & Grout Cleaning serviceNo — we used to, and we stopped. It never bonds correctly, it needs constant touch-ups, and it locks you into a yearly re-do cycle. We deep-clean the grout, apply a real penetrating sealer, and repair permanently-stained grout the right way instead.
Grout repair physically removes permanently stained grout and re-grouts it, color-matched to your clean grout — a permanent fix. Color sealing paints a pigmented coating over existing grout; it tends not to bond correctly and needs ongoing touch-ups. We do grout repair, not color sealing.
Color sealing wears off and has to be redone every year for the life of the floor. It's a quick visual fix often used by sellers to dress up a home — but it locks the next owner into permanent maintenance. Spiker uses penetrating sealer that protects the grout without painting over it.
Manmade tile (ceramic and porcelain) is $1.50 per square foot under 2,000 sqft and $1.25 per square foot over 2,000 sqft for cleaning and sealing. Natural stone is quoted after we inspect it, because existing sealants may need to be stripped first.
Natural stone — travertine, marble, slate, limestone — often has prior sealants, color enhancers, or coatings on it. Cleaning and re-sealing over old product doesn't work. The old coating has to be stripped first, which is additional work and additional cost. We can't quote that blind. We inspect, identify what's on the stone, and quote the actual job in front of you.
Yes. We seal grout on ceramic, porcelain, and most natural stone installations. For natural stone surfaces themselves, that's where the inspection-based quote applies.
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