Grout Grabber GG001 Grout Removal Tool for Most Reciprocating Saws or Sawzalls

Customer Reviews

Grout Grabber worked GREAT!

2008-06-28
If you have a shower stall that needs to be re-grouted, like I did, then this is the best tool for the job. You will probably want to order extra blades, like I did, to stack together depending on how wide your tile is spaced.

This tool is Awesome!

2008-02-27
I bought this tool so that I could remove selected floor tiles for some kitchen remodeling. It is outstanding! is tears the grout out like a hot knife through butter. You have to be careful because it will also cut in to the subfloor, in my case concrete. It is not "dustless" as the package claims, but the dust is coarse enough to not really get airborne. The only problem that I had was that I had to go elsewhere on the internet to get additional cutter blades. They show using 4 blades to remove wider grout lines. Get one more blade, then space them out with washers to get the desired witdth. If there is any grout left in between it will pop out easily. This tool works as advertised, and will make your tile removal / re-grouting job a lot easier!

Grout Removal Tool

2007-09-11
I made a mistake buying this item. It will never be used by me in the future. There was no info in the description which clearly showed one would need a reciprical electrical saw to use it. I thought it was a hand tool.

This item is for a professional who works on a whole room of tile. I just needed to remove ten tiles in one row.

I ended up using a chisel and hammer to complete the job.

Good, but slow if you're doing a lot of grout removal

2007-04-15
I removed the grout between 2" tiles on a shower floor of approx. 15 ft sq. That meant LOTS of grout lines. Fortunately they were 1/16" lines so I only had to use one blade at a time. This thing does work well, but it's still a long tedious job doing a lot of linear feet of grout lines. It took me more than one day working several hours each day. The directions recommend not using full speed of the recip saw and this is good advice. Medium speed works the best. Unlike a previous opinion, it's not that difficult to keep the blade in the grout lines, but no matter how steady your hand the blade will eventually jump out of the line once or twice. Murphy's law. I had a matte finish tile and it did no noticeable damage when the blade accidentally jumped out and hit the tile face. I think if you had a gloss porcelin tile it might put a noticeable scratch on the tile face. The recip saw is bulky and hard to maneuver in small areas, but my floor was a larger area and it wasn't a problem. Working on vertical surfaces is probably more difficult than a floor due to the weight of the saw and the time involved. Packaging says its "dustless" and it pretty much is. It won't foul the air in your work area like dry sawing through drywall or tile will. It just leaves a dry mound of powdered grout along the lines. It's helpful to have the shopvac handy to suck that up every few minutes, mostly so you can see the line better. Overall, there's probably better tools at quickly removing grout (i.e. Feinmaster),but if you've got the time this is probably the best bang for the buck.

Grout grabber -- forget buying this one!

2007-01-03
My husband returned this one immediately. The photo shows that it will do up to 3/4" of grout, but that's only if you buy three of them (and add them together--which he didn't do). For $45 for three, you are better off investing in a much better tool to do the job. I guess if you had a 12" spot to redo, this tool might be good for you. However, my husband purchased the Fein Multimaster tool (that he saw at the same time on TV as an informercial) for $260 and is absolutely AMAZED at the speed and efficiency at which the tool removes grout--not to mention in a clean and consise manner. It saved him hours and hours worth of tedious work. He initially balked at the price, but now says that the tool is worth it's weight in gold and would certainly recommend it to anyone needing to remove grout, tile, etc.

This is a great time saver

2006-11-11
I used this tool to remove the grout from a whole walk-in shower room and it saved so much time and did a very good job. I found it easy to use with a reciprocating saw and sure saved a lot of energy on my part.
I was able to regrout and it now looks almost like new.

did not work for me

2006-07-26
The grout grabber looks great in theory and would have saved a lot of time removing grout against the wall. I could not manage to keep it in the groove. I tried 2 reciprocating saws and the grout grabber walks all over the place.

good grout remover

2006-03-21
This item works well. However, you have to have a steady hand. It really serves its purpose.

Worked OK

2006-01-30
I received the grout grabber and immediately put it to work. It worked OK but the grout was very hard since it was near a shower. It was faster than doing it by hand but it was still quite labor intensive. I had a sore back the next morning. Here's a tip. Instead of ordering 4 blades to cut through the wide grout lines I put washers in between the blades and the grout that doesnt get cut with the blades chips out very easily. The blades seem to get dull rather quickley too.

Best Regrouting Option!!

2003-03-28
I have 380 sq ft of ceramic 1'x1' tiles in my kitchen and down the hall, this SIMPLE tool made the job do-able with only chipping (2) tiles.
Don't get me wrong I had some hard grout and it took me 16.5 hrs and 8 double blade (2 blades at a time) changes...I wore those blades down to a nub and they still cut.
If I would had used a circle saw my house would still be in a cloud of dust and I also tried the rotozip thing (my first plunge I was chipping tiles).
I only gave 4 stars because of the dust. It's not dustless but it definalty is less dust.
BUY IT!!