Keeping Your Commercial Tile Flooring Clean

Tile flooring is a durable option that is used in a variety of commercial buildings. If your building has commercial tile flooring, effectively maintaining it can help it to look its best and avoid some types of damage.

Failing To Keep Your Tile Flooring Clean Can Increase The Wear It Sustains

Regularly cleaning tile flooring is among the most basic types of care that it will need. In addition to keeping the floors looking good, regular cleaning can also reduce the wear that the tile will experience. Over time, dust and dirt gathering on the flooring can scuff it and even leave fairly deep scratches. Regularly cleaning the tiles will remove these substances before they are able to cause extensive damage to the flooring.

New Tile Cleaning Products Should Be Used On A Small Test Area First

When using tile cleaning products for the first time, it is important to take a few moments to spot test the cleaning solution on a discrete area of the flooring. This will let you know whether it will cause discoloration or have other reactions that you want to avoid. To ensure that you can fully assess a potential cleaning solution, you should wait at least several hours before evaluating the test site. This will allow any bleaching or other fairly slow reactions to have enough time to become noticeable before you decide that it is safe to use the cleaning products over the rest of the tile.

Regularly Clean The Grout That Is Between The Tiles 

In addition to cleaning the tiles themselves, the grout between the tiles should also be thoroughly cleaned. Grout can be extremely porous, and this can increase the risk of it developing stains or other discolorations. Luckily, there are cleaning products that are specifically designed to effectively clean deep in the pores of the grout so that much of the discoloration and staining that has occurred can be removed. You may also want to use a brush that can scrub the grout without damaging the surrounding tiles. There are sealants that you can apply to the grout to help limit these problems so that they will be much easier to clean in the future. While it may take a little time to apply this coating over all of the grout, the coating is relatively durable and should last for up to several years before needing to be reapplied to continue offering effective protection to the grout. For more information, contact a commercial tile cleaning service.

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