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Tile Cleaner? HELP!
I know every so often a post like this pops up....
Our new house has 12" x 12" tile in the kitchen, foyer, and laundry room. It is not the smooth style that a Swiffer would glide over, but more rustic/rough texture. It does not have pits or pours to it, it is simply rougher. Anyway, I cannot clean it effectively with a Swiffer like I could our hardwood at the old house. And, I've tried a traditional broom, but I feel that I am just stirring up dust and dog fur whenever I do use it.
So if you have a rougher textured tile, what tool, device, or appliance do you use to clean it on a weekly basis?
Our new house has 12" x 12" tile in the kitchen, foyer, and laundry room. It is not the smooth style that a Swiffer would glide over, but more rustic/rough texture. It does not have pits or pours to it, it is simply rougher. Anyway, I cannot clean it effectively with a Swiffer like I could our hardwood at the old house. And, I've tried a traditional broom, but I feel that I am just stirring up dust and dog fur whenever I do use it.
So if you have a rougher textured tile, what tool, device, or appliance do you use to clean it on a weekly basis?
Re: Tile Cleaner? HELP!
For a deep tile/grout clean, I use TileLab Grout and Tile Cleaner that I found at Home Depot. It involved getting on my hands and knees and really scrubbing but WOW, it was really effective on the grout in our guest bathroom that had gotten pretty stained with use. It got us back to good baseline where regular cleaning keeps up the white grout pretty nicely.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Custom-Building-Products-TileLab-32-oz-Grout-and-Tile-Cleaner-TLGTCRAQT/100086903
I was looking at those in Bed, Bath, and Beyond last night. Sure are expensive......:(
We have 2 dogs that shed a lot. H thought I should be vacuuming the entire main part of the house every day, and I just wasn't into it... you know, the whole full time job and cooking dinner every night kind of got in the way. So one evening he suggested we go to Costco to look at Dyson stick vacuums, to help me clean (LOL, we already have a regular Dyson Animal, it wasn't the vacuum that was the problem). Once there I pointed out the Roombas since they were the same price as the stick vacuum, and he agreed to try it out, and we said if it sucked, we could return it since it was Costco and you can return anything there.
But it's seriously been awesome, and makes the whole house feel a ton cleaner since it runs every day. I think it was a thread here that made me consider one.
Sadly, with a toddler, stuff on the floor is a given....
LMAO, I ruefully admit to being the cluttery one in our household. Though it is insane the wads of pet hair that seems to magically appear in every corner of every room, even after I have just swept. We have one cat and one dog, but they both have short hair! Where does it all come from?
But back to my clutter. Although we don't have any carpets, we do have a very large area rug in our front room. He was vacuuming it the other day and threw all my stuff that was on the floor of that room into a large basket
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All that said, if we didn't have the shedding dogs, the Roomba would probably be overkill.