Tile and Grout Cleaning

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a good Tile and Grout cleaning company that you can recommend? I live in fairfax and need someone to do the tile and grout cleaning for our bathroom.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a recommendation for a company - but I can give you some tips if you'd like to DIY. I just did our 1940 bathroom last weekend and it looks great - only took about an hour of elbow grease. Mix baking soda with a little water to make a thin paste, spread it all over the tile. Let it sit a few minutes then spray vinegar over everything. The reaction between the vinegar and baking soda will sizzle and foam a bit. Then use a scrub brush to really scrub the tile and grout lines. Rinse clean with a rag or mop - may take several passes. It made a huge difference.

[Anonymous]

Get a bleach pen and get to work!

[Anonymous]

steam cleaner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have a recommendation for a company - but I can give you some tips if you'd like to DIY. I just did our 1940 bathroom last weekend and it looks great - only took about an hour of elbow grease. Mix baking soda with a little water to make a thin paste, spread it all over the tile. Let it sit a few minutes then spray vinegar over everything. The reaction between the vinegar and baking soda will sizzle and foam a bit. Then use a scrub brush to really scrub the tile and grout lines. Rinse clean with a rag or mop - may take several passes. It made a huge difference.

This is great advice, but only a bleach solution on paper towels that I stick to the grout has worked for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have a recommendation for a company - but I can give you some tips if you'd like to DIY. I just did our 1940 bathroom last weekend and it looks great - only took about an hour of elbow grease. Mix baking soda with a little water to make a thin paste, spread it all over the tile. Let it sit a few minutes then spray vinegar over everything. The reaction between the vinegar and baking soda will sizzle and foam a bit. Then use a scrub brush to really scrub the tile and grout lines. Rinse clean with a rag or mop - may take several passes. It made a huge difference.

This hasn't worked for me. I did an experiment. I tried that method (baking soda and vinegar and hydrogen peroxide) with a grout brush, water and a grout brush, and then Soft Scrub bleach with a grout brush. The bleach worked!

The baking soda worked just as well as water- aka not at all. The grout brush did all of the work.

[Anonymous]

We used a company called Grout Medic. I think they have individual franchisees. They did a great job but it was much more expensive than I expected (I tried everything myself to clean the tile and I'm pretty sure I exposed myself to every toxic chemical in the book!!!). Anyway, we had mold in the grout and orange stains in the tiles that would not come out with vinegar, baking soda, bleach and super concentrated cleaners. He also scraped off all the soap scum with a razor (which in all honesty I could have done myself). Showers look like new.