If this has been brought up before please give me the link
What I am using, white vinegar and water, is not doing its job. I am left with marks on the tiles, like patches and it's bugging the cr@p out of me
help !
Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Best Tile Cleaning Product 2Jun 19, 2009 8:29 pm If you don't want to use chemicals, use white vinegar and bi carb 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Best Tile Cleaning Product 3Jun 19, 2009 8:33 pm lisanne If you don't want to use chemicals, use white vinegar and bi carb How much of each lisa...in a bucket Edit to say I love chemicals and if it will get my tiles pristine, then bring 'em on Re: Best Tile Cleaning Product 4Jun 19, 2009 8:44 pm Just put a bit of each on the cloth, they will foam up and you will get an idea. I also like the Pine O clean foam spray 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 6Jun 20, 2009 10:50 am For windows and glass I use windex and newspaper for the streak free look. Building with PD - Regent 23 Cascades on Clyde Estate HomeOne Building Thread - PCI Completed - 28th August. Handover - 11th September. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 7Jun 20, 2009 12:15 pm erinleigh For windows and glass I use windex and newspaper for the streak free look. Thanks erinleigh, I didn't know if newspaper still worked best, paper toweling isn't working the best. Re: Best Tile Cleaning Product 8Jun 20, 2009 12:28 pm lisanne If you don't want to use chemicals, use white vinegar and bi carb vinegar and bi-carb ARE chemicals. Actually, so is water! Windows... get a good squeegy and a microfibre window cleaning thingy. Bit of dish-wash detergent in water for suds. quick wash, then squeegy off. takes a bit of practice, then its the only way. Tiles... depends what tiles & grout you are talkin about. Where are they? Ash. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 9Jun 20, 2009 12:40 pm royalblue totally correct... squeegee is best for windows elbow grease on the tiles Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 10Jun 20, 2009 12:58 pm Do keep your windows clean - frames too. Your warranty depends on it... I recommend proprietary car wash solutions. Don't use other chemicals or vinegar or... these could cause aluminium to corrode. Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 11Jun 20, 2009 1:01 pm Car wash Cheers Ed Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Best Tile Cleaning Product 12Jun 20, 2009 1:11 pm royalblue lisanne If you don't want to use chemicals, use white vinegar and bi carb vinegar and bi-carb ARE chemicals. Actually, so is water! Windows... get a good squeegy and a microfibre window cleaning thingy. Bit of dish-wash detergent in water for suds. quick wash, then squeegy off. takes a bit of practice, then its the only way. Tiles... depends what tiles & grout you are talkin about. Where are they? Ash. Agree on the windows, that's pretty much how I've finally discovered how to get them reasonably streak free! Also if you don't already know how - removing the sliding windows from their tracks makes the job so much easier (unless of course you know how to get flyscreens off instead?) I've tired the windex & newspaper trick for quite some time, it worked ok, but you end up with shreads of newspaper everywhere! Then I discovered enjo - their window cleaner thingy (which is a fancy version of what you use for car windscreens at service stations) and the "miracle" microfibre cloths. The miracle cloth is just a microfibre cloth, you can pick up a similar thing for a more reasonable price at the supermarkets (look for a ratio of 70/20 or 80/20 polyester/polyamide), the enjo ones are bigger so seem to work better, but the supermarket ones do just as good a job and probably just have different ratios of the materials so as not to infringe on any patents or copyrights etc. I cleaned some windows recently using water in a bucket with a couple of cap fulls of metho (quicker drying). I used a general cloth to clean the windows, then a microfibre cloth (mine was Sabco brand from the supermarket) for the final wipe, once the window is fully dry it is streak free and like I said the microfibre cloth seems to be the key. Certainly a lot better than paper towel and windex has ever been for me! I have cleaned other windows using just enjo products and both ways seemed to work just as well. I'm not completely sold on the window cleaning thingy's (like what you do cars with), I know I can never wipe off the water so that the window is streak free, but I imagine if you're doing a lot of windows then one of those is the way to go so that your cloths don't end up soaking wet real quick. Tiles, well apart from bleach I'm still trying to find the best way to keep mould out of grout. I have heard that tea tree oil prevents mould so I might try that in my own shower (once we move into a house). Otherwise I guess bleach and a toothbrush best to get rid of mould? I know scrubbing the hell out of it doesn't seem to do much! Jiff or Gumption is something I like using, but of course it's not just a "one wipe" job and probably essentially similar to using the bicarb & vinegar method. Those "spray every day after you have a shower and leave it" kind of sprays don't seem to do much, I tend to think they attract more bacteria than they repel - I mean just look at the pinky looking stuff that ends up growing on the bottle itself! Oh I've tried steam cleaners on the grout too, they didn't do much (apart from send me deaf!). I wouldn't go there again. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 13Jun 20, 2009 1:34 pm Thank you people I will arm myself with a squeegy, a micro fibre cloth and a bucket of warm soapy water and some metho on the side. As for the tiles, it's not the grout that's giving me problems, it seems to be after I have mopped with a Veda Microfibre mop it dries leaving water marks. Is metho good for tiles??? I have never had tiles that show up marks like this. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 14Jun 20, 2009 3:44 pm Enjo (sp?) all the way! For both, mum just got me as a house warming present the window cleaner thing and the mop (because we only have tiles in the bedrooms) and it is just so easy and comes up a treat without much elbow grease. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 15Jun 20, 2009 4:20 pm I just use soapy water and a decent squeegee to clean my windows, shower screens and tiles. Then I give the glass a final going-over with an Oates glass cloth from the supermarket to take care of any streaks. Same deal for mirrors and the kitchen splashback. Cold water only for the glass cloth - hot water just smears any grease around. That's not much of an issue in bathrooms, but it is in kitchens. If there's any soap/shampoo residue buildup on the shower tiles or screens, I blast it with Selley's Ultra Professional Bathroom Cleaner. At least I think that's what it's called. I leave it for a while, then just use the squeegee and cloth as per usual. Works a treat. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 16Jun 20, 2009 9:52 pm Tiles: 1 part Cloudy Ammonia to 5 parts water....just make sure you have a few windows open For stubborn marks just go over again 5 minutes later and comes off like magic... no scrubbing necessary. Cheers Cozmo ______________________________ Building a PD Heywood 29 http://fromevetoeternity.blogspot.com/ Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 17Jun 21, 2009 10:09 pm I'll have to agree that for the windows, a good squeegee is the best. and for a quick wipeover you cant beat a damp microfibre cloth. Our last house we had some real issues with our floor tiles throughout the house. They had a low sheen flat surface and showed up every little bit of grease possible. The only way we found to combat this was to use a damp only microfibre flat mop, and a spray bottle of vinegar with a dash of pine o cleen for the smell factor. I think it was a sabco swish which they recommended to use wet but that did nothing. When the microfibre clothes get filthy you simply soak them in HOT water and some Lux pure soap flakes, rinse them in warm water and they come out looking like new. We've picked our tiles for our new house and they are a totally matt finish. No reflection whatsoever. All we're waiting for now is the house to go with them. Cheers Building again. What have we got ourselves in for!!! Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 18Jun 21, 2009 10:13 pm SuH If this has been brought up before please give me the link What I am using, white vinegar and water, is not doing its job. I am left with marks on the tiles, like patches and it's bugging the cr@p out of me help ! TILES: How do you wash your dishes? You wash with some detergent in water to remove the grease & gunge, rinse with fresh water, andyou dry. Right? Ceramic tiles are of the same stuff. BUT... tiles have grout in between. Grout is cementicious, absorbant, can stain, and soil can build up in the grout joints if you allow it to. Detergent residue will lead to a film that is counter-productive. So, you need to minimise the levels of moisture used (so you don't get dirty water pooling in the grout joints. You need a good microfibre mopping system (Enjo or similar) a hand sprayer and a good neutral detergent (used sparingly). Here's the best product I know of... http://www.aquamix.com.au/products/conc ... leaner.php Get it from suppliers listed on the Aquamix site. Its highly concentrated, so mix a small amount in a trigger sprayer as per directions. Wet the microfibre mop so its just damp. Spray a few good pumps of mix on the floor and use the floor mop to spread the mix around the floor. This will give a light film of detergent over the floor to emulsify soils. Then rinse the m/f mop in fresh water so its clean & damp again, and mop the same area again. This is to remove the detergent & soil, rinsing the floor. This process keeps moisture levels down, and uses the microfibre technology to get into the grout & remove soiling. You can now allow it to air dry or you could have a clean towel & go over the floor to dry off residual moisture. Oh, the floor should be relatively free of dust before this whole process. If the floor is pretty grimey, adding a bit of ammonia to the mix can help a lot. If a floor is pretty soiled, it may take more than one rinse, but the process described works very well and is quick & easy once you get used to it. It overcomes the two main reasons for tile & grout soiling; overwetting and chemical residues. Ash. Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 19Jun 22, 2009 11:08 am I use a damp good quality microfibre cloth with a dry one to, umm...dry! Right now, I have an Oates Window one and a few Enjo's. I find that windex type cleaners leave a residue. For my polished porcelain floors in the last house, I used a steam mop and dried the floor immediately after with towels. It was a PITA but everyone used to comment how beautiful and shiny my floors were. And they were Building a Modified Lawson Modern 29 @ Botanic Ridge, Cranbourne South, Victoria Re: Tile & Window Cleaning-WHAT DO YOU USE??????? 20Jun 22, 2009 12:56 pm Thank you all so so much for your detailed answers, I appreciate it very much, the bathroom tiles are driving me a tad insane, they seem to be matt with a low sheen as mentioned by baronvon, and when the water dries there are marks everywhere, I think the flat microfibre mop sounds like a good idea. Ash, I will stop overwetting the area, I thought this might be good but no more and will buy some of that Aqua Mix, it sounds great...and I think I will have to have to towel dry the area as well well, I'll be fit if nothing else. Plasterboard Gyprock is very popular as a reveal liner these days. You need to provide a way of supporting it, we use a modified timber reveal or bracket. You will be… 1 4762 No, I even have sections of narrowness where the tiles won't slide up any further. When I manage some spare time, I might play around with the first DIY part of my… 7 4938 |