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Homemade Grout Cleaners
Easy homemade grout cleaners from ingredients you find
in your home. If you have tile and grout in your home, you know what a
pain it is to keep clean especially the grout. The grout just seems to
attract dirt and hold it in.
If you are a resourceful person, and you must be since you found this
website, you can use some products you already have in your home to
make homemade grout cleaners to clean your grout.
It's important to clean your grout because prolonged dirtyness can
cause unwanted grout staining, which sometimes can't be removed.
Recipe's For Homemade Grout Cleaners
Recipe #1
This first homemade grout cleaner is the mildest of all the recipes
I've outlined here and can be used on all tile surfaces. It can also be
used as a poultice to remove stains from grout and natural stone.
3 cups of baking soda
1 cup of water
Or 3 parts baking soda to 1 part water, amount depends area to be
cleaned
Mix the baking soda into a paste and apply to the dirty grout. Let it
dwell for 10 minutes and rinse clean.
Recipe #2
Recipe #2 uses vinegar, which is acidic, and should not be used
on marble, limestone or travertine.
1/4 cup salt
1/4 cup baking soda
1/4 cup vinegar
Mix the ingredients together in a small container and apply to the
dirty grout. Let the solution dwell for 20 minutes. Make sure not to
let the solution dry out. The solution can be scrubbed it's dwelled.
Rinse thoroughly with warm water. More on vinegar
cleaning tips
Recipe #3
Recipe #3 also uses acidic vinegar and akaline ammonia, which should
balence the pH, but I wouldn't count on it. Don't use on
marble, limestone or travertine.
1/2 cup baking soda
1/3 cup ammonia
1/4 cup white vinegar
Mix the ingredients and apply the solution to your dirty grout. Let it
dwell up to 20 minutes and then scrub. This solution is a bit stronger
and should clean tough grout stains.
Recipe #4
Recipe #4 is for light colored or white grout lines only because it has
bleach in the ingredients.
1/4 cup bleach
3/4 cup baking soda
Mix the ingredients and apply the solution to the dirty grout lines.
Add water if you want do dilute the bleach. Also, the longer you let
the solution dwell, the more it will bleach the grout lines. If used on
colored grout, the grout lines will start to have a faded appearance.
I've seen this a million times when cleaning grout profesionally.
Recipe #5
When brewing up homemade grout cleaners why not go with truly natural
products like recipe #5. Acidic so don't use on marble.
lemons
baking soda
Mixing lemon juice and baking soda into a paste and appling to the
dirty grout will also work. Let dwell, scrub and rinse with warm water.
Recipe #6
For cleaning mildew off grout use recipe #6. Not for colored grouts.
Careful with marble, test first in inconspicuous area.
1/4 cup bleach
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup alcohol
1 cup water
Mix solution and apply to grout with mildew. Keep area saturated and
let dwell 20-30 minutes. The bleach will kill the mildew and the
alcohol will disenfect the area. Scrub and rinse with soap and water.
Re-apply when mildew returns. In under-ventilated areas, this may need
to be done a few times a month.
Recipe #7
This recipe uses the cleaning power of hydrogen peroxide. This can
bleach, so don't use on colored grout. Test first on marble
surfaces.
3 parts baking soda
1 part Hydrogen Peroxide
Mix hydrogen peroxide and baking soda into a paste and apply to dirty
grout lines. Let dwell, scrub and rinse with warm water. This mixture
works great. Can also be used a poultice for natural stone.
When it comes to homemade grout cleaners or maintaining
tile and grout or natural
stone, we strive to help educate our customers on the best protection
they can have, helping them save time and money in costly restoration
costs down the road.
We are located in San Jose, but often find ourselves cleaning natural
stone and ceramic tile and grout throughout the Bay Area.
Want to know more about our services and how we can help you with grout
cleaning and natural stone give us a call
408-998-8781
we'd love to come by and see how we can help you.
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