Hi all I am new to this forum. I recently bought a house 8 months ago and I working on the house one (or two) rooms at a time. I have ceiling in my kitchen that at one time had a leak from above. Its a textured ceiling(swirled). I tried to fix the texture but I really dont like it. What do you recommend? should I just skim coat the ceiling, sand it, primer it, paint it? thanks guys! Mike

I've just spent 20 minutes reading that you should NOT use mastic in the bathtub/shower (wet) area in the bathroom. I've spent weeks remodeling my bathroom and the people at the tile place said with strong conviction to use mastic...which I did. I thought they new what was best since they've been in the business for so long. All that is left to do is seal the grout. How long will the mastic hold up before I have to rip all this new tile out from the tub walls and replace with thinset and new tile???? All I was trying to find out tonite was whether or not Aquamix Grout sealer is better than Tilelab and now I'm thinking that's the least of my problems.... Any advice? At this point it seems I should just see how long the tile stays on the wall and try to use the best grout sealer I can find.