How to Easily Clean Grout
How to Easily Clean Grout
We clean the floors often but how often do we REALLY clean the floors completely? Even though we are washing the floors a lot of the dirt gets stuck or it stains the grout making it look so dingy and dirty! There are just a two ingredients and two tools you will need!
First off you will need
- A Bowl
- Toothbrush or small scrub brush
Secondly you will need
- Baking soda
- Hydrogen Peroxide
All you are going to do is make a paste. I decided on a snow day that I would clean my grout in the kitchen so I made a large batch. But all you need to do to make this paste is to put about 1/2 a box of baking soda in a bowl and then pour the hydrogen peroxide in the bowl slowly! Start off with one ounce at a time until you get a good thick paste that is still able to spread!
Put a good amount of the paste on your brush and cover the grout completely. No need to start scrubbing. Let this paste sit on the grout for about 5-10 minutes. This gave me enough time to just cover the whole kitchen then I just came back around scrubbed the grout throughout the whole kitchen then I hand washed all the floors to clean up the paste, leaving my floors looking better than ever!
If you don’t have these ingredients on hand here are a few other options you could try.
- Vinegar, Baking soda, heavy duty cleaner and warm water: just combine 7 cups of warm water, 1/2 cup of baking soda, 1/3 cup of ammonia, and 1/4 cup of white vinegar. Pour the whole mixture into a spray bottle, spray the grout, scrub
- You could also try toothpaste and baking soda! scrub and wipe clean
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February 11, 2016 @ 2:47 am
Kudos to you for cleaning the whole floor. Ours needs a great cleaning like this because even though I mop it often the grout is stained brown from dirt.
February 11, 2016 @ 2:57 am
looks great we did our bathroom and now it looks clean
February 12, 2016 @ 10:23 am
Thanks for the tips. It’s so hard to clean grout
February 13, 2016 @ 2:03 am
Great tips! Thank you for sharing
November 17, 2017 @ 5:28 pm
Thank you for posting this article. We appreciate
you taking the time to put this together.
April 7, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
On the plus side, this does work very well. However, on the downside, it is VERY DIFFICULT! My husband and I worked all afternoon and only finished 3/4 of our kitchen. First, the paste was too dry so we ended up using a spray bottle with peroxide to soak the areas covered in paste. We rinsed very well after each section, but still have a powdery floor after rinsing, drying and mopping with vinegar and water. Will finish the job and mop with floor cleaner and hopefully the residue will disappear. I don’t want to discourage anyone from this method, because the grout looks like new. I just feel anyone tackling this job needs to know what they’re in for!
July 31, 2019 @ 9:41 pm
A much easier way to clean grout is to use the paste, or whatever you like, and get a grout cleaning brush that screws onto a long handle; got mine on Amazon. No getting down on your hands and knees, and you can scrub way more tile at a time. My whole house, while small, is all tile; over 1,000 sq. ft. A toothbrush is a no starter.
July 8, 2020 @ 11:56 am
These are great tips, thank you Mat! I usually get my tile and grout cleaned once a year by a local tile cleaner, but we moved away and I haven’t found another cleaner yet. So, I used this solution on our bathroom grout and it worked incredibly well. It definitely took some elbow grease to get it done, but the results were worth it!