{"id":40673,"date":"2010-02-02T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=40673"},"modified":"2010-02-04T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T10:52:15","slug":"to-grout-or-cau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/02\/to-grout-or-cau\/","title":{"rendered":"To Grout or Caulk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a new construction building.  My master bath has 12&#8243;marble tiled walls.  On corner of the walls shows a hairline crack running vertically ( I guess due to settling).<\/p>\n<p>My question is should I re-grout this area or use caulking.  I heard somewhere that it is better to use caulkling since walls do move and the silicon caulking moves with them.  Grout does not and this is why I have the crack.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a new construction building. My master bath has 12&#8243;marble tiled walls. On corner of the walls shows a hairline crack running vertically ( I guess due to settling). My question is should I re-grout this area or use caulking. I heard somewhere that it is better to use caulkling since walls do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-40673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen_bath"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/02\/to-grout-or-cau\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"To Grout or Caulk?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/02\/to-grout-or-cau\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/02\/to-grout-or-cau\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Kitchen & Bath","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"stableguy"}],"creator":["stableguy"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-02-02T10:45:39Z","datePublished":"2010-02-02T10:45:39Z","dateModified":"2010-02-04T10:52:15Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"To Grout or Caulk?\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/to-grout-or-cau\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/to-grout-or-cau\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Kitchen & Bath\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"stableguy\"}],\"creator\":[\"stableguy\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2010-02-02T10:45:39Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-02-02T10:45:39Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-02-04T10:52:15Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40673"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=40673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}