Mind Your Grout

If you have cleaned a bathroom, there are probably two things you hate doing. One is the toilet seat, and the other is the grout in between tiles. In this article, I will discuss the latter; the less visible, yet still very important, tiles.

In comparison with the toilet seat, grout cleaning may seem inconsequential, as most human contact happens on the toilet seat. Grout, on the other hand, is limited to the walls and the floor. People make a lot more actual physical contact with toilets, but, the dangers of dirty grout are light and are unfortunately, airborne.

Grout’s very nature allows it to absorb the materials around it, which includes soap suds, dirt, and mold. These will, in turn, stick to your feet or fly to your nose. Sooner or later you will have clogged nose, or you’ll be coughing a lot. The bacteria have already done its job.

Grout must indeed be regularly cleaned. One can either learn to this by himself, or hire professional grout cleaners to keep these diseases at bay. Both have benefits, and I shall discuss them in detail below:

You can go “do-it-yourself” and clean your bathroom tiles and grout personally. This includes shopping for the right solution (or making a homebrewed one), and finding the right scrubber to deal with the dirt. An old toothbrush would do just fine, being the cheapest method. However, if you are feeling mildly extravagant, you may instead opt for an electronic scrubber. Whatever you choose, make sure that you do your research first. We can’t have you buying faulty equipment, now.

If you decide to go for the grout cleaning professionals, on the other hand, then there will be some (but not a lot) additional expenditures. Offset this extra cost by maintaining your grout and tiles. If you do some light cleaning everyday, then the molds would not have a chance to develop, and consequentially you wouldn’t have to call the cleaners too often.