If you have never had a shower regrouted before, it is natural to wonder what the job actually involves. Is it messy? How long does it take? Do the tiles come off? The good news is that professional regrouting is one of the least disruptive trade services you can book — most showers are completed in a single day, with the tiles staying exactly where they are.
Step 1: Inspection and assessment
Every job starts with a proper look at the shower. Our technicians assess the condition of the grout, tiles, seals and shower floor to work out why the grout has failed — not just where it looks bad. Cracked joints, hollow-sounding tiles, failed silicone at wall junctions and staining outside the shower all tell a story, and the inspection makes sure the repair targets the real cause rather than the visible symptom.
Step 2: Removing the failed grout
Once the scope is agreed, the old grout is carefully removed from the joints throughout the shower. This is the part most homeowners expect to be messy, but with the right tools and dust management it is a controlled, contained process. Removing the deteriorated grout completely matters: new grout applied over failing grout is a cosmetic patch, not a repair, and it is exactly the kind of shortcut that fails within months.
Step 3: Repairs to vulnerable areas
Before new grout goes in, we address the weak points. Wall junctions, shower floors, screw penetrations and the joints around hobs and screens are the most common places water escapes. Any affected areas are repaired so the new grout has a sound foundation to bond to.
Step 4: Regrouting and resealing
The shower is then regrouted using high-performance cement-based systems designed specifically for wet areas — not the general-purpose products sold off the shelf. Movement joints are resealed with the correct flexible sealants, so the shower can handle daily expansion and contraction without cracking.
Step 5: Clean, cure and guarantee
Finally, the shower is cleaned and finished, and your technician will walk you through the result. The new grout needs 24 hours to cure before the shower is used again — or 72 hours if an epoxy system has been chosen. Every full regrout is then backed by our industry-leading 10-year waterproof warranty: if water penetrates through our workmanship, we fix it, no questions asked.
From first inspection to final clean-up, the whole process is designed to remove guesswork and disruption. You get a watertight, hygienic, refreshed shower without the cost, dust and downtime of a renovation — usually in a single day.
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