Tile & stone
Tile, Grout and Stone Cleaning
Grout drifts grey a shade at a time, so nobody notices until it is done. We bring ceramic, porcelain and natural stone back, then seal it so the next few years are slower.
Chapter 01
Grout is porous, which is the whole problem
Cement grout is a sponge sitting slightly below the tile face, so every mop pushes dirty water straight into the one part of the floor that cannot shed it. Mopping harder makes it worse, not better.
We flush it instead, with heat and pressure and a solution matched to the joint, then extract. The colour that comes back is the colour it was laid in.
Technicians cleaning tile and grout on a commercial kitchen floor
Stone is not tile and gets treated differently
Travertine, marble, limestone and slate each react differently to acid and to abrasion, and the wrong product will etch a polished stone permanently. We use StonePro systems on natural stone for exactly that reason.
Polishing and honing are separate from cleaning. If a floor has lost its finish rather than just got dirty, cleaning alone will not bring the reflection back and we will say so.
Chapter 03
Sealing, and when it is worth it
Sealer does not make a floor waterproof. It buys you time between the spill and the stain, which on a kitchen or a shower floor is the difference that matters.
It also makes the next clean easier. We seal after cleaning, never over trapped soil, because sealing a dirty joint just locks the grey in.
One visit, whatever it is called
Tile Cleaning, Grout Cleaning and Tile and Grout Cleaning all describe the same visit here, because a tile floor and its joints fail together and there is no sense treating one without the other.
Stone floor cleaning, polishing and sealing sit alongside it, and we will tell you at the estimate which of those your floor actually needs.
Showers, backsplashes and the awkward bits
Vertical work takes longer than floor work and the failure mode is different, usually soap film and mildew rather than ground in soil. Shower floors and the joint where tile meets the tray are where problems start.
We also install and repair grout where it has failed, rather than cleaning around a joint that has already gone.
They steam cleaned my stone floors and they look brand new. Some cleaners won't even do the stone floors. My bathroom tile is sparkling and grout is fresh. Nancy Whalen, Google review.
Find out what the grout was
Most people are surprised. Same day estimates are usually available.
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