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Best Cleaner for Tile Floors?

Sooner — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:54:42 GMT

I'm doing my fall cleaning. The deep clean sort! So I'm wondering what is your favorite cleaner for bathroom tile floors? The kind for a brush and a bucket fall/spring clean, AND the mop kind for in-between.

Thanks for any advice!

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In-x-s — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:34:15 GMT

Vinegar and water is my favorite. Floors end up squeaky clean with no tacky residue.

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Desertdi — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 07:27:41 GMT

@Sooner

I am SHOCKED to find there is another woman besides me, who gets down on the floor with a scrub brush (!!!)

I use a commercial cleaner like Lysol or Mr. Clean. di

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Lilysmom1 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:50:45 GMT

What @In-x-s @says. The guy who laid my tile told me that was the best way to clean tile.

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Mom2Dogs — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:16:47 GMT

@Desertdi. I also get on my hands and knees to clean floors...how do the baseboards get clean if not on your knees?

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goldensrbest — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:40:59 GMT

My first floor is mostly tile, a steam mop does wonders,as far as a cleaner i like odo ban. Odo ban, also gets rid of bacteria.

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Sooner — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:14:08 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
@Sooner

I am SHOCKED to find there is another woman besides me, who gets down on the floor with a scrub brush (!!!)

I use a commercial cleaner like Lysol or Mr. Clean. di

@Desertdi Separated at birth! Twins! You just gotta do it a few times a year!!!!! I have a brush on a handle, but sometimes you have to get right down there and scrub! Just because you feel better!

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Desert Lily — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:40:29 GMT

When I lived in the west coast desert, I found tile floors to be challenging. I had tile in every room except the bedrooms, where the floors were wood.

The tile itself was easy enough to clean, but the grout was a real pain. I had large almost white tile with light gray fleck lines, so the grout was light too. I took the grout cleaning a room at a time, using a brush and Mr. Clean on my hands & knees. When I was done, I regularly resealed the grout.

I made sure not to have any tile in my current house.

Re: Best Cleaner for Tile Floors?

Desertdi — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:50:42 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@Sooner

I am SHOCKED to find there is another woman besides me, who gets down on the floor with a scrub brush (!!!)

I use a commercial cleaner like Lysol or Mr. Clean. di
@Desertdi Separated at birth! Twins! You just gotta do it a few times a year!!!!! I have a brush on a handle, but sometimes you have to get right down there and scrub! Just because you feel better!

@Sooner

Yeah! And I know my grandma is watching me from "above"... di

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wagirl — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:51:31 GMT

NO way would I EVER get on my hands and knees to clean a floor!!!! I used whatever I was mopping my vinyl floors with on the tile. and I used my hurricane mop or whatever it's called. The one that spins in the pail --that thing was the best invention ever!!

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Desertdi — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:09:54 GMT

@wagirl wrote:
NO way would I EVER get on my hands and knees to clean a floor!!!! I used whatever I was mopping my vinyl floors with on the tile. and I used my hurricane mop or whatever it's called. The one that spins in the pail --that thing was the best invention ever!!

@wagirl I am SHORT, and have given myself a couple black eyes using a mop. di

Re: Best Cleaner for Tile Floors?

Sooner — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:18:22 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@Sooner

I am SHOCKED to find there is another woman besides me, who gets down on the floor with a scrub brush (!!!)

I use a commercial cleaner like Lysol or Mr. Clean. di
@Desertdi Separated at birth! Twins! You just gotta do it a few times a year!!!!! I have a brush on a handle, but sometimes you have to get right down there and scrub! Just because you feel better!
@Sooner

Yeah! And I know my grandma is watching me from "above"... di

@Desertdi Not either of my grandmas, one died before I was born, but mother! We didn't have much but what we had was clean! And my uncle, who scrubbed my aunt's floors!

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jackthebear — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:24:53 GMT

Zep no residue cleaner

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Lilysmom1 — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:22:47 GMT

@Desertdi I use a steam mop AND get down on the floor twice a year. What fun...

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Desertdi — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:50:58 GMT

@Lilysmom1 wrote:
@Desertdi I use a steam mop AND get down on the floor twice a year. What fun...

@Lilysmom1

I really need to do mine SOON...and I'm running out of excuses... di

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mrshckynut — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:53:26 GMT

@Sooner i prefer steam for ours

mrshckynut

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Sooner — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:15:26 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
@Lilysmom1 wrote:
@Desertdi I use a steam mop AND get down on the floor twice a year. What fun...
@Lilysmom1
I really need to do mine SOON...and I'm running out of excuses... di

@Desertdi Yeah, I ran out! But it wasn't that bad. Better than dealing with the floors of the horse stalls. Been there done that.

Yesterday I washed the glass panes in the outside doors and cleaned the thresholds, facings etc.

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Desertdi — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:23:39 GMT

@Sooner @Lilysmom1

OK.....I have been SHAMED into scrubbing up the kitchen. It's 1:23 a.m. on Monday....and I just got thru (!!!)

Anyway, "Thanks" for giving me the initiative. di

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Lilysmom1 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:24:15 GMT

@Desertdi Too funny! After I finish Fall yard cleanup that is my next job.

This weekend while working in the yard I lost the connector piece on my leaf mulcher making it inoperable. I think it got thrown in the compost pile. Looked everywhere, no luck finding it. As soon as I buy a new machine (can't replace the part), it will show up. If I go any deeper in the compost pile I may disappear...

I think that means I did enough yard work don't you?

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Desertdi — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:38:21 GMT

@Lilysmom1 wrote:
@Desertdi Too funny! After I finish Fall yard cleanup that is my next job.

This weekend while working in the yard I lost the connector piece on my leaf mulcher making it inoperable. I think it got thrown in the compost pile. Looked everywhere, no luck finding it. As soon as I buy a new machine (can't replace the part), it will show up. If I go any deeper in the compost pile I may disappear...

I think that means I did enough yard work don't you?

@Lilysmom1

OH MY! I have to tell you something I did. My "big" vacuum cleaner wouldn't turn on. I was frantic (it's not that old).

I practically took the whole thing apart...and then I realized the last person who used it was a worker on my renovation project. Don't know exactly WHY he did it....but the suction setting was turned OFF. di