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(More customer reviews)I have about 1200 square feet of 18" x 18" tiled floor to clean. The kitchen, dining room and the traffic patterns from the front and rear doors get much dirtier than the rest of the house. In the 6 years since the house was built, the tan colored grout has never received a thorough cleaning, so you can imagine that it was looking pretty dark.
I tackled the chore with 3 products: the Hoover AH30285 Tile and Grout Spray, an Oxo Good Grips 37481 Grout Brush, and a Hoover FloorMate SpinScrub Wet/Dry Vacuum Cleaner, H3044. In my limited experience, the combination did an excellent job.
I found that the best way to use the Hoover Tile and Grout cleaner is to clean about 50 square feet at a time and then wash the area with the FloorMate. Begin by spraying a heavy coat into the grout groove. For really dirty grout, a light spray doesn't do the trick. Wait 4-6 minutes, and then scrub the grout with the OXO Grout Brush. Next, and this it important, wipe up the excess cleaner and loosened dirt with a sponge. I did the entire kitchen without wiping up the grout cleaner and found that the FloorMate would not remove the film that had dried on the face of the tile. I had to go over the entire floor with the grout cleaner, brush and sponge a second time, which was no fun at all.
I also tried leaving out the grout brush step, just to see if the Grout Cleaner and FloorMate alone would clean the grout. They won't.
I estimate that I cleaned the grout of about 450 square feet of floor. This took the entire 32 ounce container of Tile and Grout spray. Make no mistake; it's a labor intensive process. To clean the 450 square feet of grout and 1200 square feet of tile took me about 6 hours, with just a few short breaks.
The results were excellent. The grout looks like new, and the big advantage of using the FloorMate is that it sucks up all the dirty water, instead of just pushing it around, as you do with a mop.
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