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Re: Ceramic/Porcelain Floor Tile questions
Posted by Rem Dude on 7/25/08
Anna - Not exactly sure what “toxin” you are referring to in
grout, however, if you are worried about contact with or
inhalation of acrylamide, there are many other sources with
substantially higher concentrations of the chemical. You get
plenty of it in your food every day. Furthermore, the common
chemicals used to clean, disinfect, and deodorize bathrooms pose
a far more significant indoor air quality concern than your
grout.
Before you demolish your bathroom, you may want to consider a
low VOC grout sealer that you can pickup at any hardware and do
it yourself.
RD
On 7/24/08, Anna Nimity wrote:
> On 12/19/02, Kay wrote:
>> Depending on how sensitive you are - do watch out for the
>> grout. They do make less toxic grout than the regular.
>>
>
> Well, great. And where exactly IS this "less toxic grout?"
> Can't anyone point me to a BRAND NAME or a source, or anything
> CONCRETE? This is like being told, "to avoid damage and
> disease, THINK GREEN! Yes! Try to use LESS TOXIC STUFF! Look
> for it!" and it is extremely frustrating.
>
> Like many Seattle residents, I am dealing with an incompetent,
> ignorant, frankly STUPID manager - hired by the vicious
> management company that runs these apartments for the Owner,
> who sits bubbling in a pool of slime somewhere, feeding on the
> tears of working people.
>
> I am fighting cancer, and and I really should not be working
> with toxic stuff. I am desperate to find a less-toxic
> alternative before our incompetent, shifty-eyed manager has to
> deal with it. I want to live.
>
> If I ask for my rundown bathroom to be re-grouted, I will get
> one of the following, plus a bonus:
>
> 1. NO ACTION. EVER. It simply will not be dealt with, except
> for the rent increase which will be explained as being "do too
> the Manny extensatorious repare's Reqired too make hear
> Reecentley."
>
> 2. The cheapest possible "plumber," a moronic glue-sniffing
> hick who'll come in and looks at me dazed and wall-eyed when I
> say the word "toxic," then look around panicked, and mumble
> something about "this stuff is pritty good, people like it."
> He will open a can of DDT and plutonium and something labeled
> CARCINOGENIC IN ANY AMOUNT: DO NOT USE and smear it all over
my
> bathroom. He will contaminate everything, and still miss
> hitting the area between the tiles in the shower. He will
> bellow "huh?" when I ask him to leave so I can go to sleep,
and
> the tiles will tremble. The mold holding them together will
> crumble from the toxic fumes of the DO NOT USE stuff. The
wall
> will cave in. The entire apartment will flood from the broken
> plumbing exposed by the crumbling wall, and the building will
> collapse. They will raise my rent. Other Seattleites will
> wonder why I can't be nice about this, since we "have it so
> good."
>
> 3. Greasy-eyed suspicion that I "did something" in the ten
> years I've lived here to "cause" the 30-year-old grout to
fail.
> A retaliatory rent increase. Creepy wheezing like a cartoon
> ferret, and bad dreams.
>
> BONUS: A RENT INCREASE JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT.
>
>
>
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