Building and Construction - Leftover grout

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Leftover grout

AustinScoobee

2006-04-18, 3:21 pm

Hi all.
We overestimated a rather large tile job (saltillo) and are left with
16 bags of "saltillo tile grout/adhesive" from Dome Hepot. We thought
we would use it somewhere else, but it appears not. It's too late, and
frankly, too much work to return, so I wondered, could it be used as
mortar for mortared stone walls? We have several small walls we will be
putting up, and it seemed a good way to avoid owning 16 large
concrete-bag shaped rocks!

Anyone know the relative strenght of this stuff?
Could we add in some portland if it's too weak? etc etc.

We even tried giving it away (freecycle) to no avail.

Cheers and thanks

G

RicodJour

2006-04-18, 4:21 pm

AustinScoobee wrote:
> Hi all.
> We overestimated a rather large tile job (saltillo) and are left with
> 16 bags of "saltillo tile grout/adhesive" from Dome Hepot. We thought
> we would use it somewhere else, but it appears not. It's too late, and
> frankly, too much work to return, so I wondered, could it be used as
> mortar for mortared stone walls? We have several small walls we will be
> putting up, and it seemed a good way to avoid owning 16 large
> concrete-bag shaped rocks!
>
> Anyone know the relative strenght of this stuff?
> Could we add in some portland if it's too weak? etc etc.
>
> We even tried giving it away (freecycle) to no avail.

Habitat for Humanity takes donations, you take the write off. Whatever
Habitat doesn't need, they sell off to raise money.

R

AustinScoobee

2006-04-18, 4:21 pm

That is certainly a good idea. We do however need to do up these stone
walls though and feel silly buying 16 bags of mortar if we could use up
the otherstuff...
Still, I will look up and see where the closest habitat is..
Thanks,
G

tmurf.1@juno.com

2006-04-18, 7:21 pm

That stuff is totally wrong for stone masonry. Not the same stuff at
all.

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