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Does having bathroom tile & grout professionally cleaned really work?

5 years ago

I need to have the tile and grout cleaned in a bathroom! See picture attached. The first photo is the over all view with dirty brown grout. You can see the original color of the grout in the second pic, in the left corner of the floor where it meets the baseboard, below the built in shelf. It's a light, warm gray. Notice how brown it is in from the the door on the left (in front of the dog)...way dirtier. Will professional cleaning really lift the grime? What is the cleaning process? Is it some kind of high pressure rotary tool? Are there different options for cleaning options? I would love see some before and after pics from real people that have done this, pics that are not used in advertising! Thanks!

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kariered

5 years ago

Yes, it will definitely help a ton for you. It looks like your tile is terrazzo tile. I would find someone who knows exactly how to clean it. My parents have this in their master bathroom and had someone come out to clean it. It looked great afterwards and they'd wished they had it done sooner!

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K R
5 years ago
Yes it does help a lot. No pictures, but I’ve done it twice over a 10 year period. The company that did mine acid washed all of the tiles and grout, then removed grout and regrouted. For a medium sized bathroom (floor and the whole shower) it was about $350-400, so costly, but it looked MUCH better. Like new really.
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mxk3 z5b_MI
5 years ago
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^^ That's different than just grout cleaning. I used a grout cleaning company a few years ago and they did a cr*ppy job, it was not worth what I paid. I had to do it again myself - hands and knees, scrubbing with a grout brush and paste of OxiClean and hot water --> that worked really well but was a lot of work -- I had a really big area, though (large kitchen, dining area, and foyer). In your size space, I'd probably just clean it myself, unless you want it regrouted.
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Thank you creative tile. Yes, these feature tiles are at the end of the bath in the main shower area. I don't believe he put anything behind the tiles. I'm sure he just stuck them to the plasterboard as he did with all the others. He did treat the tiles with Lithofin as these are stone but then I believe he just grouted them. He's been this morning and can't see where the leak under the bath is coming from (please see picture) and he's added some more sylicon around the taps but I wonder if this has anything to do with the tiles too if you say he should have put something behind them but the plasterboard was bone dry so hopefully it isn't. What a nightmare. Thank you for the advice. We'll have to see what the boss says tomorrow but I'd like to give them the opportunity to rectify it first and I'm so glad I posted this else I'd have been scrubbing at the tiles for weeks but now I know I need to get them back in Thank you again for all your help.
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@Slough Shark we are just getting started with the master bath in our new (budget) build- although we have hired a reputable tiler to do the tile work. 4x16 white glossy subways for the shower walls and grey pebble mosaic for the shower floor. Bathroom floor tile is a dark grey and I am struggling to pick a grout for the floor tile. I want to use the same color for the mosaic and hexagon floor tile. Looks like your floors might be about the same color... could you post a pic of the floor tile? Im considering pewter or dove gray from custom building products. i am now debating choosing rolling fog instead of platinum for the subways after seeing your results!!
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apple_pie_order
5 years ago
Yes, it does help dramatically in situations I have seen. The tile pros have very large rotary machines, like carpet cleaning machines, but specialized for tile. Some have a special machine with a narrow brush that goes back and forth on just the grout, like a gigantic mechanical toothbrush. The chemicals, detergents, and hot dirty water are sucked up by the machines, followed by rinsing thoroughly. They can seal the tile and grout again, I highly recommend it for easier cleaning afterward.

A large kitchen and three bathrooms cost a few hundred dollars in a low cost of living area. It took all day. BTW, there are special hand-held electric scrubbers they use for wall and shower tile.
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mxk3 z5b_MI
5 years ago
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The guy I used didn't use any special equipment, guess it was just a lousy choice of a company by me. Wish I would have known about all this when I needed to!
raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
5 years ago
I hired a floor cleaning company to clean the grout on the floor in my DM's condo - it was stained similarly to the OP's. Made no difference at all. It must all depend on the company & whether they have specialized equipment (and which equipment).
irrelephantk
5 years ago
We had a company come out to clean ours and I was hugely disappointed for the cost. I had better luck cleaning them on my own. A pain and time consuming but it got clean. I got one of those brush attachments for a drill for the next time I really clean it. (I wish I hadn’t done tile in my kitchen)
Helpful article: https://brendid.com/ultimate-guide-to-cleaning-grout-and-tile/
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Eagle Quality Construction LLC
4 years ago
I’m a GC We found sometimes jobs like yours
I have a better way then be removing the Existing grout
Is a new product we use come in 8 different colors

Custom Building Products Polyblend #382 Bone 8 fl. oz. Grout Renew Colorant

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