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I need to do it. Yes, careful use of CLR/muriatic acid will do it, but I am too decrepit to spend a lot of time down on the floor cleaning tiles and I can't stick the maid with this. What and/or whom do you recommend?

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It just so happens I am in the middle of a big floor grout cleaning project in my home and I have lots of rooms with tile. Below are the recipes that do work for me.

I have tried the two recipes below as well as carpet shampoo in hot water. I have a carpet shampoo machine that sucks up the liquid, however, since it require a lot of use of the machine, I want to make sure I don't over use so, I have switched to a Wet Dry Vac. These three options all work. It's a matter of preference.

Leave on 10-30 minutes.

1 Cup Hot Water

1/2 cup Baking Soda

1/2 Cup Hydrogen Peroxide

or

1 Quart Vinegar

1 Quart Water

1/2 cup Baking Soda

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I'll give you a third option, a professional one - if you are lucky enough to own a 'dry' steamer (superheated steam) scrub the grout with the long handled extension and the stainless steel brush. No soap necessary. When it is dry, seal the grout lines with a clear acrylic sealer, or a tinted one, if you can find it or make it. Repeat every couple or few years. One of the great mysteries why they don't use grout sealer in Mexico.

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Grout supposedly has a sealer in it, but it is no way enough. If you have a Saltillo tile floor, or other porous tiles, the grout will get sealed when the sealer goes on the floor after it is laid (altho those types of tiles need get a couple coats of sealer BEFORE they are laid, as well as after). I put down a new coat of water-based wax sealer on my floors every year after scrubbing them super clean and have never had the need to clean the grout separately.

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