By Having a tile as your flooring at home is not a bad idea. This is normally seen either to you bathroom, toilets, and even to your kitchen. This tile floor is distinctive and elegant design that you may want to choose. In addition, a good design of choice. Tile may last for a long period. However, grout may changes its appearance and looks over time. This is because of the twofold reason. Grout stay below the level of the tile, whenever you mopped the floor to clean it the water will stay between the channels of the tiles. Furthermore, it is the type of absorbent in nature. Therefore, even if the grout sealed the dirt particles may still settle to its gap and tiny holes, this might cause grout to look dingy and dark. There are tile and grout cleaning equipment that may help you to lessen your work. It designed to loose and remove the grime and dirt that trapped to your grout.
Most of the cleaners like professional carpet cleaners use high-powered truck mount or a portable equipment to help them in cleaning. They are taking the advantage the machinery that has the ability to generate and can produce high heat with pressure to clean the grout. They use hot water extractor to create water pressure at about 1,200 psi and it is ideal to blast the dirt that surrounded the grout.
Aside from hot water extractors, cleaners may use a spinning turbo tools for tile and grout. It should be connect to a high-powered truck or a portable hot water extractor and it will start to clean the tiles and grout. The unit has its round head inside and it spray jet that rotates that can be 1 to 2 inches above from the floor. As soon as the water will blast out from the jet from about 700 to 2,000 pressurized water debris and dirt will instantly be removed and clean like vacuuming the floor.
To lose the stubborn grime and dirt it would be better to use a detail grout brush. This equipment is necessary to help you clean the tile and grout. The “V” like shaped bristles will help and allow scrubbing the hard dirt and tight space of grout line.
There are two types of grout cleaners, one is unsealed grout and the other is sealed grout. You may see already the wonders of pressurized hot water however; it may also good to use chemicals to help you clean the stains on your floor as well as grit off the grout. Try doing some test first before putting the chemicals to your entire floor because it may not be effective to the type of your grout if you are not really which type of grout you have.
You may also use an absorbent compound that will you used to clean the carpet. A chemical powder may spray to your floors before the large sweeper starts its cleaning. As soon as the scrubbing to your floor done and completed, you may see that the dirt and grime is already swept away and clean. You may also consult experts in cleaning the floor on what the proper and right tile and grout cleaning equipment will be better for you to use. This may save your money and time in keep buying cleaners that will not be right for your floors. However, if you are already certain you may now start cleaning like the usual procedure you do.
Grout cleaning is hard work and you do not want to make things harder by not being prepared. There are items and tools that are nice to have when cleaning grout and others that are absolute necessity like protective gear. In this post, I will touch on the items that I think you need in addition to grout cleaner when you take on a grout cleaning project in the kitchen or bathroom.
Gloves
You can’t mess around when taking on a serious cleaning project, and some grout cleaners can be especially harsh to skin (and anything else that’s not grout). Make sure you get a good high-quality pair of rubber gloves. Some thin dishwashing gloves just won’t cut it as the chemicals can leach through the thin rubber. You want rubber gloves, the thicker the better I say, otherwise double up on the thin dishwashing gloves.
Protective Eyewear
Tile and grout cleaning chemicals are typically made of bleaches and acids. That last thing you want when you are down on your hands and knees scrubbing some old grout is a flick or splash of acid in your eyes. Grab yourself some safety glasses and wear them!
Mask
Generally, you don’t need a mask. Open up the house and leave the doors and windows open to get nice clean fresh air blowing through the room your cleaning. Some stronger chemical grout cleaners can irritate your throat and in that case consider a mask and be sure to take frequent breaks and avoid exerting yourself.
Grout Brush
I used to use an old toothbrush to scrub my grout. It was OK, good enough, but not great. Grout brushes are made for one job. Yeah, cleaning grout. Fork over the few dollars they cost and grab yourself a customized tool for the job, you’ll never look back. You’ll likely want a few for larger grout cleaning operations as they can wear out on difficult stains. There are multiple types, pick one that you think best suits your needs, you can always change it up on the next project.
Mop
You need a mop and a bucket for cleaning up afterwards. I usually do a wet mop then a dry mop. Old habits die hard. I also don’t buy a new mop as often as I should. A dirty mop can quickly undo a lot of hard scrubbing. Is there another item that you use when cleaning grout? I would love to hear about it, so leave a comment below.
