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Be prepared, however, for a significant amount of dust that will be created and blown around by the reciprocating saw during the process. The tool aggressively removes grout down to the thinset. It took 3 blades for us to complete the floor. We had a 300 square foot tile floor that needed regrouting. This tool was a lifesaver.
You will probably want to order extra blades, like I did, to stack together depending on how wide your tile is spaced. If you have a shower stall that needs to be re-grouted, like I did, then this is the best tool for the job.
If there is any grout left in between it will pop out easily. Get one more blade, then space them out with washers to get the desired witdth. They show using 4 blades to remove wider grout lines.
It is outstanding. It is not "dustless" as the package claims, but the dust is coarse enough to not really get airborne. I bought this tool so that I could remove selected floor tiles for some kitchen remodeling.
The only problem that I had was that I had to go elsewhere on the internet to get additional cutter blades. This tool works as advertised, and will make your tile removal / re-grouting job a lot easier. is tears the grout out like a hot knife through butter.
You have to be careful because it will also cut in to the subfloor, in my case concrete.
I thought it was a hand tool.This item is for a professional who works on a whole room of tile. There was no info in the description which clearly showed one would need a reciprical electrical saw to use it. I just needed to remove ten tiles in one row.I ended up using a chisel and hammer to complete the job. I made a mistake buying this item. It will never be used by me in the future.
I had a matte finish tile and it did no noticeable damage when the blade accidentally jumped out and hit the tile face. It just leaves a dry mound of powdered grout along the lines. I think if you had a gloss porcelin tile it might put a noticeable scratch on the tile face. Overall, there's probably better tools at quickly removing grout (i.e. Fortunately they were 1/16" lines so I only had to use one blade at a time. I removed the grout between 2" tiles on a shower floor of approx. 15 ft sq. It took me more than one day working several hours each day.
Murphy's law. It's helpful to have the shopvac handy to suck that up every few minutes, mostly so you can see the line better. Working on vertical surfaces is probably more difficult than a floor due to the weight of the saw and the time involved. Feinmaster),but if you've got the time this is probably the best bang for the buck. It won't foul the air in your work area like dry sawing through drywall or tile will. The directions recommend not using full speed of the recip saw and this is good advice. Packaging says its "dustless" and it pretty much is. That meant LOTS of grout lines.
The recip saw is bulky and hard to maneuver in small areas, but my floor was a larger area and it wasn't a problem. Unlike a previous opinion, it's not that difficult to keep the blade in the grout lines, but no matter how steady your hand the blade will eventually jump out of the line once or twice. This thing does work well, but it's still a long tedious job doing a lot of linear feet of grout lines. Medium speed works the best.
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