{"id":6136,"date":"2015-10-02T19:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2015-10-02T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:32:27","slug":"clean-grout-floor-like-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/clean-grout-floor-like-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean the Grout on Your Floor Like a Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tile floors are amazing. They\u2019re incredibly durable, they look great, they\u2019re cool to the touch and they\u2019re easy to clean. They are\u00a0nearly perfect<\/a>. We say say \u201cnearly\u201d because there is one thing about tile floors that is a constant irritation.<\/p>\n

The grout.<\/p>\n

Specifically, cleaning the grout, which gets very dirty and does not have smooth surface and seems impossible to clean. Well, we\u2019re here to help. There is a way to clean tile grout that doesn\u2019t require you to get on your hands and knees with a toothbrush.<\/p>\n

Oxygen bleach.<\/p>\n

Look, we could go into a whole scientific explanation of what oxygen bleach is and how it\u2019s different from chlorine bleach and how it shouldn\u2019t be confused with\u00a0sodium\u00a0peroxocarbonate, but you don\u2019t care about that, and neither do we. We\u2019re just trying to clean some grout, here, not teach a chemistry class. What you need to know is that it\u2019s non-toxic, doesn\u2019t have harsh fumes and won\u2019t ruin colored fabrics.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0get yourself<\/a>\u00a0some oxygen bleach and dissolve it in warm water. Then just drench the tile with it. Dump it all over, make sure it covers every nook and cranny in the grout, and then resist the urge to start scrubbing. Just walk away. Find a way to occupy yourself for 15 minutes. While you\u2019re listening to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in the other room, the oxygen bleach is doing its thing, and its thing is, \u201csoaking into the pores of the grout and loosening the dirt.\u201d It actually is kind of like they make it look\u00a0on the infomercials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fifteen minutes is the bare minimum here. The oxygen bleach will do its thing for up to six hours if you let it, and the longer you leave it on there, the less elbow grease you\u2019ll have to apply later. Be sure to check on it, though, because sometimes the grout will absorb everything you put down, in which case you\u2019ll want to add more to keep it wet.<\/p>\n

Whenever you\u2019re ready, scrub the tile with a scrubbing brush, and marvel at how well the stains and dirt come up. Then, start adding a little of the oxygen bleach to your mop water whenever you mop the floor, and maintain that glistening grout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tile floors are amazing. They\u2019re incredibly durable, they look great, they\u2019re cool to the touch and they\u2019re easy to clean. They are\u00a0nearly perfect. We say say \u201cnearly\u201d because there is one thing about tile floors that is a constant irritation. The grout. Specifically, cleaning the grout, which gets very dirty and does not have smooth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}