Tile Repair & Regrouting in Golden, CO

Yes — corners are exactly where it matters. Those joints move as the house does, grout in them cracks by design flaw, and cracked corner joints wick water behind the tile with every shower. The correct fix is removing the grout from the corners entirely and replacing it with flexible sealant, which is what should have been there all along. It's a small job with outsized leak-prevention value.

It's worth attention but not alarm — hollow means the tile has debonded from its bed, and it's now living on borrowed time until a dropped pan or a heel finds it. Caught while intact, it can often be re-set or replaced cleanly. Several hollow tiles in a line tell a different story, usually substrate movement, and I'll give you that diagnosis honestly if the tapping tour finds it.

To the original color, usually yes — to your grout's current color, that's the honest complication, since twenty years of use ages grout in ways a fresh batch won't imitate. For small repairs I match the aged tone as closely as the palette allows. Where uniformity matters — a whole shower, a visible floor — regrouting the surface entirely is the route to a truly consistent result, and it's less costly than people expect.

Grout needs a day or so before water, and sealer wants longer still — I'll give you the exact number for what goes in, because rushing it is what causes the next failure. Golden and Englewood showers of a certain age often want the corners done in flexible sealant rather than grout, which changes the timing slightly. Either way you'll get a real figure, not a guess.