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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dermotmccrystal on December 04, 2005, 03:41:40 pm

Title: grouting
Post by: dermotmccrystal on December 04, 2005, 03:41:40 pm

a woman wants me to clean tiles in house.her tiler made a mess.there is a lot of grout on the tile surface.is there anything i can get to remove this ? thanks dermot

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: Jan K on December 04, 2005, 04:28:02 pm

plenty of elbow grease, that's what I used when I got stuffed with the same problem!!

Jan

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: CMS on December 04, 2005, 04:51:22 pm

I know they're a bit old fashioned now but brillo pads are brilliant for this.

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: martin19842 on December 04, 2005, 04:54:11 pm

hi there,

we get this all the time in build cleans we yse microfibre cloths and hot water, fantastic, and then for the larger lumps, a glass scraper with a new blade, at a high angle, doesnt mark the tiles.

hope that answers the question

regards

martin

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: Tim Downer on December 04, 2005, 05:09:27 pm

Yep, we use the good old Microfibre cloths too, which remove 90% if not all the grout. As Martin has said, we use small 1 inch hand scrapers to remove the larger lumps.
Either a glass cleaning microfibre cloth or a scrim will bring it up to a nice shine after cleaning.

Kind Regards

Tim

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: martin19842 on December 04, 2005, 05:40:53 pm

hi tim,

chaos now through till the 31st, we have now got plots handing over between xmas and new year, i think i'll ignore xmas.

been on site all weekend,

and i see some long nights ahead, weve still got in excess of 100 plots to handover,  weve got one plot a three storey at drylining and first fix, for a xmas completion.its MADNESS.

and also we are getting so much carpet cleaning, all these plots are carpetted ad the trades ARE just walking all over it. MORE MONEY!!!!!"

regards

martin

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: offclean on December 05, 2005, 05:38:44 pm

Tim,
Hope your charging at least £150 a shift all inclusive!
Peter

Title: Re: grouting
Post by: dermotmccrystal on December 11, 2005, 07:26:19 pm

thanks for advice