Tile Floors SCREAM FOR HELP
Dec. 7th, 2007 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedishampooDoes anyone know how to clean tile floors? I just cleaned them, I think, but I about killed myself doing it.
We moved into the new place, and it has all tile floors. Like stone tile, smooth. At first we thought, oh, no vacuuming downstairs and no cat barf on carpet and so no Resolve. I can just sweep and mop, hooray!
HOLY CRAP was I wrong. Great clumps of dust and cat hair hiding everywhere, blowing across the floor like tumbleweeds. I tried to sweep (with a broom) and get most of the dust, but it kept skittering away from me. Then I got out the mop and Pine-Sol (sponge mop), Pine-Sol diluted as per package directions, and hell, the grout between tiles is mostly untouched, the Pine-sol leaves a bit of residue, and basically the mop makes the dust I missed wet and sorta smears it like slime.
HOW do you clean these floors? I can't hire anyone. I was doing it for hours. I can't get on my knees and scrub like I used to on the linoleum kitchen in our old place, else risk bruised knees. And dang, this place really is huge (another thing we thought at first was good) and has a LOT of tile. Acres! Anyone have any tips?
We moved into the new place, and it has all tile floors. Like stone tile, smooth. At first we thought, oh, no vacuuming downstairs and no cat barf on carpet and so no Resolve. I can just sweep and mop, hooray!
HOLY CRAP was I wrong. Great clumps of dust and cat hair hiding everywhere, blowing across the floor like tumbleweeds. I tried to sweep (with a broom) and get most of the dust, but it kept skittering away from me. Then I got out the mop and Pine-Sol (sponge mop), Pine-Sol diluted as per package directions, and hell, the grout between tiles is mostly untouched, the Pine-sol leaves a bit of residue, and basically the mop makes the dust I missed wet and sorta smears it like slime.
HOW do you clean these floors? I can't hire anyone. I was doing it for hours. I can't get on my knees and scrub like I used to on the linoleum kitchen in our old place, else risk bruised knees. And dang, this place really is huge (another thing we thought at first was good) and has a LOT of tile. Acres! Anyone have any tips?
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Date: 2007-12-09 12:55 am (UTC)I'd go two ways. One is the wet jet for heavy duty cleaning. The second would be to also upgrade the regular "mop" to the new one with a rechargable vacuum built in. This is GREAT for day to day stuff- fur/hair/dust/bits/etc. The regular swiffer sheets do most of it, the vacuum just means you get the bits that the cloths don't. Very handy.
We use the swiffer on everything but the carpet (we have one room with carpet and a Dyson to tackle it, the carpet swiffer wouldn't have a chance as it's the room we live in).
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Date: 2007-12-09 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-09 05:41 pm (UTC)