Spring cleaning season is in full gear and if you have tile and grout in your home, then your list of cleaning tasks is a bit more involved than other homeowners. While tile is an excellent choice for flooring throughout a home because of its beauty, durability and affordable price, it can be a pain to keep clean. Grout often acts like a magnet towards dirt, grime and grease causing it to turn black or discolored. This will leave your tile floor looking dirty and leave an ill impression on any visitors you may have. There are a handful of tips that will help homeowners with tile flooring keep it clean and last longer, making it worth choosing tile as your flooring.
Do it Yourself Tile & Grout Cleaning Woes
If you have chosen tile for the majority of flooring throughout your home, so that it covers more area than any other type of flooring, do not attempt to clean it yourself. Taking on that big of job can take much more time and effort than you planned for. Hiring a professional will save you large amounts of time and money in cleaning solutions. Consumers will also find that the chemicals they can purchase at the store to clean their tile flooring with will actually leave a buildup on their floor’s surface. This can make your floors even dirtier than they were before you cleaned them. Layer build up can also be attributed to cleaning tools like the Swiffer mop, steam mops and other popular floor cleaning devices.
Professional Tile & Grout Cleaning and Care
It is important to talk to a professional to gather the correct information on tile flooring. A professional will be familiar with what chemicals are safe to use and which ones will leave a film of buildup on your tile floor. If possible, avoid wearing shoes on your tile floor as well as bare feet. Cotton socks are your best choice to keep your tile floor as clean as possible for as long as possible. Even after doing this, it is still recommended to have at least annual tile floor cleaning maintenance.
Exterior Cleaning Helps Prevent Dirt and Oil Inside
The exterior of a home will often indicate how clean or dirty the floor inside the home is. If there are tire marks or oil stains on the driveway, chances are that same dirt and oil has been tracked into the home. Be sure to regularly sweep up any walkway or pathway that leads to your front door. This will help to eliminate an excess grime that can be tracked into your home. Your welcome mats should be cleaned often to reduce dust being tracked in as well.
For professional floor cleaning contact Tile and Stone Medic. We are a professional floor cleaning company that is skilled and experienced in cleaning tile and grout, removing stains and giving your floor a long lasting life.
Spanish, Terracotta, Saltillo Tile Floor Cleaning
Our Mexican tile cleaning & Mexican tile polishing services will vary
depending on the condition & needs of your floor. Stripping Mexican tile or terracotta stripping is not always necessary and is very labor intensive if it is done properly. Having to strip is rare and due to the intensive labor, time & hazardous chemicals comes at a high cost to you. It is done each and every tile and grout line one by one by hand. Acid is used by many other companies. This will change the color of the Mexican tile or terracotta and damage the surface of your floor. Usually a scrubbing is all that is needed.
If you have been placing years of store bought wax type products on your floor, the build up will need to be and can be stripped with a machine. This is also fairly labor intensive.
Most of the time a professional cleaning of Mexican tile, Mexican tile sealing and polishing Mexican tile is all that is necessary to give your floor a great appearance. Terracotta cleaning, sealing & terracotta polishing as well.
If Mexican tile stripping is absolutely necessary, we will let you know. We clean Mexican tile, re-seal and polish Mexican tile or polish terracotta with a minimum of ( 3 ) coats of a low gloss, semi gloss or high gloss finish. Exterior tile a low shine polyurethane or a penetrating sealer is used due to slippery conditions and can only be done in dry weather conditions. Whether you have Mexican tile ( saltillo ), Spanish or Italian terracotta tile, we will provide the cleaning, sealing & polishing service that is right for your floors.
We Cleaning, stripping, sealing, polishing, restoration & refinishing of Mexican tile, saltillo & terracotta.