Regular cleaning and maintenance not only enhances the appearance of a building and prevents damage, but it also helps in delaying the need for expensive, and time-consuming restoration, repair or replacement of building materials. It is amazing, and perhaps somewhat alarming to find the same old problems occurring over and over again:
1. General Cleaning
2. Grout haze left on the surface of the tiles
3. Tiles appear dull and generally grubby after a period of time and are proving difficult to clean
4. Tiles appear clean enough but the grout joints remain dark, dirty or patchy.
Although this issue is really for the customer, not the tiler, I thought it might be useful to write a back-to-basics article covering some basic principles of cleaning, after all, who better to advise the customer on how to care for their new floor than the person who just installed it? The following rule of thumb while not 100% foolproof, will provide a good starting point:
For general cleaning use a safe, neutral detergent
For mineral type deposits such as cement, grout, plaster, rust etc use an acid based cleaner (except on acid sensitive surfaces such as polished marble or limestone).
For organic, oil or grease based dirt and general grime, use an alkaline cleaner.
So, for the grout haze problem we would use an acid based cleaner to break down the cement and facilitate the removal of the haze.
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