I have some gorgeous Travertine tile in my kitchen, breakfast area, hall, laundry room and both bathrooms. I love it, but it was starting to look really bad.
Dark and not at all like I remembered it when we moved in.
I mop this with hot soapy water every single week, but that just wasn’t enough apparently. Plus, if it was sealed, I don’t think it was done really well, because it had tons of dirt in the pigment of the tile.
See what I mean, this is really disgusting.
Now believe me, this has been mopped and should be clean, but obviously it’s not. Tons of dirt in all the crevices of this tile.
I got a couple of quotes to have it cleaned, but that seemed really high to me.
Both quotes came in around $300.
Since this is a no-spend October, I thought I would see what I could do. Mopping didn’t work, but how about a little cleanser and a scrub brush.
Wow !! this is amazing, it really isn’t hard and it gets in all those crevices.
See how pretty.
Look at the upper left hand corner, see that’s where I havn’t cleaned yet.
See the tile and the grout lines, how gross is that.
Just look at it now!!!!!
There is nothing in all those crevices and look how pretty the grout looks too.
This took me almost a week to do all these areas.
I just did a small area every day, that way I didn’t over-do.
Now that they are done I am going to apply a new sealer, I just don’t know what.
I love the look of this tile,
it really is pretty,
and now that it is clean, I want to protect it.
I have been researching on line to learn about different sealers. I don’t have a clue at this point.
Do any of you have a good one that you’ve tried. I would love to hear about it.
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