Hyde Tools 18400 Professional Grout Bag

Pressure comes from the squeezing arm's long muscles, steady and boring; the tip hand only steers. When the bead surges and starves, the fault is rhythm, not equipment. Keep the charge live. Re-twist at every pause; mortar sitting in a slack bag is mortar deciding to stiffen. Clear clogs backward. A jam at the tip gets massaged back into the charge and remixed by squeeze — forcing forward compacts the jam. If clogs repeat, the sand is too coarse for the opening; recut or remix (class technique). Batch to the bag's clock. Load what the next half hour uses. Wash it the minute it's empty — Hyde's "easy to clean" is a real property of seamless plastic and it is bought at the tap, promptly: turn the bag out, flush the tip, and let nothing cure in the cone. A bag with yesterday's mortar in its seam-free corners was cleaned tomorrow instead. Respect the recut ratchet. Every recut is permanent and every recut is wider: a bag ages toward bigger joints. Cut conservatively and the same bag serves the whole job ladder.