While I love almost all of the tools from Adam's, I like to use a tire dressing applicator idea I got from another site. This person uses a turtle-back grout sponge cut in half. The shape of the sponge fits into your hand perfectly and allows you to get into tight areas better than any other applicator I have tried (the tire dressing applicator from Adam's is my second choice).
The grout sponge isn't perfect though. It generally only works well if you get it damp first, and then after it dries, it hardens and has to be wet down again to use it. It also soaks up a lot of product. I had a couple of Adam's foam blocks and realized that it was almost the same size as the 1/2 grout sponge, plus it didn't have any of the problems that the grout sponge has. So I figured I'd hack it (literally) into the same shape as the grout sponge. Now I have the best of both worlds!
Here is the full grout sponge.
This is what the applicator looks like when you cut the sponge in half.
Using an electric knife, I was able to carve the same shape from the Adam's foam block.
Here is the final product compared to my previous applicator.
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While I love almost all of the tools from Adam's, I like to use a tire dressing applicator idea I got from another site. This person uses a turtle-back grout sponge cut in half. The shape of the sponge fits into your hand perfectly and allows you to get into tight areas better than any other applicator I have tried (the tire dressing applicator from Adam's is my second choice).
The grout sponge isn't perfect though. It generally only works well if you get it damp first, and then after it dries, it hardens and has to be wet down again to use it. It also soaks up a lot of product. I had a couple of Adam's foam blocks and realized that it was almost the same size as the 1/2 grout sponge, plus it didn't have any of the problems that the grout sponge has. So I figured I'd hack it (literally) into the same shape as the grout sponge. Now I have the best of both worlds!
Here is the full grout sponge.
This is what the applicator looks like when you cut the sponge in half.
Using an electric knife, I was able to carve the same shape from the Adam's foam block.
Here is the final product compared to my previous applicator.
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