Regrout, Repair & Restoration
The master shower with the grout joint at the floor-to-wall corner that has read a hairline crack for two winters and finally started to bloom mildew through it. The kitchen backsplash with one cracked subway tile at the range hood where a cast-iron skillet kicked back from the burner. The 1980s entry tile with grout the color of a wet towel that nobody has sealed since the second owners signed the deed. The guest bath with a perfectly intact tile field that just looks tired because the grout is six shades darker than the day it was installed. Regrout, repair, and restoration is the Handis core tile trade for the work between a single-tile patch and a full re-tile — failing grout removed and replaced, change-of-plane joints recaulked with proper 100 percent silicone, single cracked tiles swapped out without breaking the neighbors, aged grout color-sealed back to a finished look, and the whole tile field deep-cleaned and re-sealed once a decade. No licensed-trade handoff on any of it — Handis self-performs every step end to end. From $350 for a single wall or backsplash tile swap up to $1,800 for a double-shower or master-and-guest combination regrout and recaulk.
Services
Regrout, Repair & Restoration Pricing
Final pricing depends on the scope selected, the room size, the tile and grout condition, and whether discontinued-tile sourcing is needed for a spot replacement. Each child page lists detailed pricing for that service family. Sealer and color-matched grout product surcharges are passed through transparently with the line item named. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the room and the scope — we will quote the regrout, the recaulk, and the seal line by line, no sub trade in the loop.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Regrout & Restoration
Most shower regrouts we are asked to do followed a previous handyman's attempt to "freshen up" the grout with a coat of caulk smeared over the existing failing joint. The caulk reads okay for a week and then peels because it was bonded to a wet, contaminated, failing grout substrate instead of to clean tile edges. A proper regrout removes every gram of failing grout down to clean tile, vacuums the joint, then refills with grout matched to the joint width and grout product line. The recaulk uses 100 percent silicone at change-of-plane joints because every change-of-plane joint will crack a cementitious grout within a year — silicone moves with the building. Handis does both steps every time, no shortcuts.
Estimate
Tell us the room (master shower, guest shower, kitchen floor, bath floor, entry, mudroom, laundry), the scope you have in mind (regrout, recaulk, color seal, cracked-tile swap, deep-clean and seal), and the rough age of the tile field. Send phone photos if you can — close-ups of the cracked grout joint or the cracked tile help us scope accurately. We send a clear estimate with each line item named.
What Our Customers Say
Recent regrout, repair, and restoration reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Master shower regrout and recaulk after a previous handyman had smeared caulk over the failing grout in the floor-to-wall corners. Handis removed every gram of the old grout and the old caulk, refilled the field joints with sanded grout matched to our existing color, ran fresh silicone at every change-of-plane joint. Two years later still tight and no mildew bloom anywhere.
Single cracked tile on our kitchen backsplash right next to the range hood. A cast-iron skillet had kicked back from the burner and chipped it. The tech grout-sawed the perimeter, removed the cracked tile without touching either neighbor, set a replacement from the original installer's leftover stock we found in the basement, regrouted in matched color. Invisible patch in one visit.
Grout color sealing on the original 1985 entry tile that had aged to nearly black between the joints. Tech applied Aqua Mix Grout Colorant in a charcoal that pulled the whole floor back to a consistent finished look. Two-coat application across about 80 square feet, done in one afternoon. The entry looks ten years younger and it cost a fraction of what a regrout would have been.
Tile deep-clean and seal on our kitchen and both baths. We had not sealed any of the grout since the houses was built fourteen years ago. Tech ran oxygen-based grout cleaner with a Drill Brush attachment, rinsed everything clean, came back two days later and applied two coats of penetrating sealer across every joint. Mop water beads up now where it used to soak in immediately.
Master and guest shower regrout and recaulk in the same project. They split it across two visits to let the master cure before they did the guest bath. Five years of accumulated mildew at every change-of-plane joint, all of it gone now. The silicone bead at the floor-to-wall corners is the tightest, cleanest silicone I have ever seen on a shower.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis tile regrout, repair, and restoration — scope, pricing, materials, color matching, and how the work differs from a full re-tile.