Hard floors
Tile and grout cleaning that gets into the lines, not just the surface
A tile floor can look wiped down and still have dark grout lines running through it. We clean the grout itself, not just the glaze on top.
Chapter 01
Grout holds everything a mop leaves behind
Grout is porous. Every time a mop goes over a tile floor, some of what it picks up gets pushed into the grout lines instead of lifted away, and it stays there. Over months that builds into the dark, gray or brownish lines you see running between otherwise clean-looking tiles.
A surface wipe or a spray-and-mop can make the tile itself shine while doing almost nothing for the grout, which is why floors that get cleaned regularly can still have grout that looks like it never has been. We work the grout lines directly, not just the tile faces around them.
A tile floor mid-clean, soiled dark grout lines on one side of a diagonal line and clean pale grout on the other
Low moisture keeps the water out of your subfloor
Flooding a tile floor with water and a wet vac doesn't really clean it, it relocates the dirt and pushes moisture down into the grout and the subfloor underneath. Grout is porous both ways, so water that goes in doesn't come back out on its own, and that trapped moisture is exactly what leads to staining, mildew and grout that fails early.
Our low moisture method avoids that. We're not soaking the floor to lift soil out of the grout, so there's no standing water sitting in the lines and nothing left damp under the tile once we're done.
Chapter 03
Sealing, and what to do after we leave
We seal the grout as part of the job. A fresh seal gives the grout a barrier so it doesn't immediately start absorbing spills and foot traffic soil the way bare grout does, which is a big part of why floors go dark again so fast after a plain cleaning.
After that, day to day maintenance is just regular sweeping and the occasional damp mop with a neutral cleaner. You don't need anything special, and you don't need to avoid mopping the floor, you just don't need us back nearly as often once the grout has a proper seal on it.
Ceramic, porcelain and natural stone
We clean ceramic and porcelain tile, which covers the large majority of kitchens, bathrooms and entryways we're asked about, and natural stone floors like travertine and slate, which need more care because the stone itself, not just the grout, is porous.
The approach we use is suited to whichever surface is in your home, so a natural stone floor is handled differently to a porcelain one even though the grout lines look the same at a glance.
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