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The Best Stone Tile Cleaning

How to Maintain Floors After Pro Tile Cleaning and Sealing

Maintaining Your Hard Floors After Professional Tile Cleaning and Sealing

This Tile Cleaning information applies to anybody that might have floors they will ever mop, EVER. Pretty much if you have anything other than carpet, this information is for you.

Things you will need Include :

  1. Mop
  2. Mop Bucket
  3. Neutral Cleaner
  4. Hot Water
  5. Dirty Floors
  6. Fans

If you’re not familiar with neutral cleaners, click the link below to learn what you need to know about neutral cleaners, why they are great for tile cleaning, and how to get them. 

—Neutral Cleaners —

Mixing

Start by mixing your neutral cleaner into your mop bucket with your hot water. Follow the directions on the bottle. You don’t want to overuse or abuse them. That will leave behind sticky residues and leave your floors soapy. So follow the directions, use hot water, and mix it into your mop bucket. 

Mopping

Next, mop your floors, just as you ever have, mop your floors. 

String Mop

Microfiber string mops are really great at absorbing fluids to really pickup the crud from the floor. They also have longer life and wont shed like cotton mops.

Dumping Water

Third thing: Dump your nasty mop water into the toilet. You can dump it outside if you’d like too. I recommend into the toilet because they are self flushing. If you spill a little bit, guess what, you can easily mop it up. 

BIG KEY *** IMPORTANT PART

Refill your mop bucket after you rinse it. Use just hot water to mop again. That’s right. After your done mopping for the second time, dump that water and mop a third time with just hot water. 

Have you ever washed some dishes and set them in the strainer without rinsing them? Have you ever skipped that part, rinsing them? NO! If you wash a cup, you rinse it out and dump it. You see there is soap in it, you rinse it again and dump it. It is the same principle with your floors. This is why we say to mop three times (once with your cleaner and twice with just hot water). 

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Fans

If you have any fans put them down. Box fans, tower fans, whatever you have will work. Ceiling fans work great as well but if you don’t have any fans go to your AC unit and click your fan from auto to on. This will help your floors dry a whole lot faster. 

Quick Recap

  • Use a neutral cleaner
  • Fill your mop bucket with hot water and neutral cleaner
  • Mop as normal
  • Dump water and refill with just hot water
  • Mop again, dump again, and mop again
  • Set fans out to or at least get the air circulating. 

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Indoor Stone and Tile Restoration Cleaning

The Best Stone Tile Cleaning to Date

Have you ever walked into a home and thought the floor was just dirt because it was so dirty? I mean to the point where you can’t tell if its tile, stone, or carpet underneath… It’s rare and not likely many people will see it before that house hits the market again. I have added a few pictures to fill in the blanks for you. I could have literally scraped dirt off the floor in the living room. Check it out.

The stone flooring has numerous areas were candy was pressed into the stone and left for quite some time. In the before pictures you would never of guessed what could lie beneath all of the dirt and grime. But floors don’t end up like this overnight. It takes a few years of extreme abuse and a serious lack of cleaning for floors to take on so much crud.

Tile / Stone Restoration before picture

Tile / Stone Restoration Before Cleaning

This picture doesn’t do a lot of justice for how dirty the place really was. After talking to the landlord and exploring the house I found that the previous residents were quite rough on the whole house. They didn’t tend any of the floors throughout the entire house. This house has the outdoor stone (as see above), carpet (mostly upstairs), and about 3 large areas of real wood flooring. All areas of the floor were pretty tore up.

I did a full restoration cleaning on the carpet as well but I’m more opt to show you the after pictures of the outdoor stone and tile cleaning I did. Before I go into that though I’d like to walk you through  the cleaning process.

The Cleaning Process

1.) I began by using a large push broom to get up all the loose debris and dirt that was floating around. This helps get some debris out of the way but not much because of how dirty the floor was overall.

2.) Using a chemical injection sprayer, I put together a highly concentrated dose of floor treatment. It was a combined basic floor cleaner, enzyme booster, oxygen booster, with a good solid shot of citrus degreaser. This type of mix-up is guaranteed to eat through any grime it’s put up against.

In-line-sprayer

This is how we apply our cleaning solutions.

3.) Attack the floor with a twenty inch floor scrubber. This scrubber uses stiff nylon brushes and spins about 175 rotations per minute. In most cleaning processes this is known as agitation and is critical to a deep cleaning.

4.) Using approximately  1200 psi hot water, I used an outdoor pressure washing instrument known as a tile spinner to wash the floor of the nasty paste that covered it. Here is a link to the tool I used. – The difference is when I used it, it had the attachment on it that makes it a hybrid tool.

5.) Finally after 24 hours of fans blowing across the freshly cleaned tile, I went ahead with sealing it. A mop and bucket of sealant were used to apply the invisible protective coating.

Here is the finished product of what I considered
the best stone tile cleaning to date.

The best stone tile cleaning to date