The Groutsmith
Franchise Overview
The Groutsmith is a home-based franchise offering professional tile and grout cleaning, restoration, color sealing, and repair services to both residential and commercial customers. Franchisees operate without a storefront, running their business entirely from home to keep overhead and startup costs low.
Just the Facts
For most complete information, see Franchise Disclosure Documents
The Groutsmith FDDs and Analysis Reports
These The Groutsmith FDDs, as filed, contain 23 sections of federally mandated disclosures such as franchisee obligations, franchisor litigation, and financial performance. FDD's are typically 100+ pages long and are critical to evaluate when researching a franchise. Multi-year analysis reports track how these disclosures change across consecutive FDD filings.
Available Documents
Instant download after purchaseMulti-Year Analysis Packages
Year-over-year comparison of consecutive filings. Every figure cited to its filing, Item, and PDF page. Source FDDs included.
The Groutsmith 5-Year FDD Analysis Package (FY2021–FY2025)
Analysis report (22 pages) • 4 year-over-year transitions • 5 source FDDs (2022–2026 filings) included
What's insideSee a full sample report (PDF)
The report covers, in order:
- Executive summary
- Change index
- Consolidated unit summary
- Geographic summary
- Turnover, transfers & closure rates
- Franchisee investment and fees
- Financial performance representation
- Franchisor financial condition
- Franchisor entity & leadership
- Litigation & bankruptcy
- Method, limits and disclaimer
- What this report does not include
- You receive — one analysis report PDF and the 5 source FDD PDFs, 6 downloads in total, available immediately after purchase.
- Every figure is checkable — each carries a citation to its filing, FDD Item, and PDF page, and the filings it cites are in the package.
- Restatements are shown, not overwritten — where a later filing revises an earlier year's figures, both numbers appear with a note.
- Calculated figures are labeled — anything the report calculates rather than quotes is marked as calculated, with its formula published in the report.
- Gaps are explicit — a closing “What this report does not include” section separates what the franchisor didn't disclose from what this report doesn't collect, so an absence is never ambiguous.
Individual FDD Filings
Complete filings as submitted, including exhibits and financial statements.
Groutsmith FDD 2026
July 2026
The Groutsmith FDD 2026
May 2026
The Groutsmith FDD 2025
August 2025
The Groutsmith FDD 2024
May 2024
The Groutsmith FDD 2023
June 2023
The Groutsmith FDD 2022
June 2022
The Groutsmith FDD 2021
June 2021
The Groutsmith FDD 2020
June 2020
The Groutsmith FDD 2019
July 2019
The Groutsmith FDD 2018
July 2018
The Groutsmith FDD 2017
July 2017
The Groutsmith FDD 2016
August 2016
The Groutsmith FDD 2016
April 2016
FDDs are reproduced as filed and are current only as of their filing dates. The FDD Document Processing Fee covers acquisition, storage, organization, and digital delivery of an individually purchased FDD.
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