Polished Porcelain Floor Polishing: THE BIG PROBLEM
The cleaning of porcelain floor Especially if it shines more than matte is a problem that brings head to many people who in their day decided to place a porcelain pavement shine in the Pavement of his house, and that if they come to know before, the cleaning problems that had had changed the type of pavement.
If you have come to this article it is safest that you have placed a shiny porcelain pavement in your home and you have problems with stains, that the footprints are noticed, the wheels of the baby's cart, and you have misty areas and Others with luster, and that make you clean it 3 or 4 times a day without it fits you well.
When you go to a tile shop and you see a shiny porcelain pavement you fall in love with it, a glitter as if it were marble that the tile vendor speaks to you about its hardness, that is better than normal stoneware pavements , that if your enamel is the strongest and that if you drop something is more difficult to be stung than in a normal stoneware.
And it is true, in this case, what they tell you in the shop of tiles and pavements, but in many cases forget about the maintenance and cleaning of the porcelain floor, they forget to advise you that if you have children, pets or a high traffic of People, choose a model with a faded background instead of a monocolor.
And although it is not really the obligation of the seller, but it is advisable, because in case you do not end up happy or happy with the final finish of the porcelain floor, the way to place it, grout it and clean it, right after finishing the work, and how to do the limp N, you will return to your store at Reclamárselo.
Though, I have to say, that not all tile vendors are like this, I have visited shops, where the seller took different pieces of porcelain paving, put them on the floor, and stepped in front of me, telling me...-you see here do not notice the footprints, in this Other for example, if you have children or pets do not advise.
If it is for areas with low light or a few windows of natural light where the lighting comes from the ceiling, perfect I recommend this porcelain floor of high brightness, but if you have Windows or many windows where the sunlight enters in a oblique and affects the pavimen To porcelain, as it has so much shine is easier to be noticed footprints or stains.
A complete information, that perhaps now you have it on and you have the problem of cleaning porcelain floor gloss would have appreciated at that time, to make a better choice of pavement of the whole thing, changing the color, Changing the background, changing between gloss to matte, or directly changing the type of pavement.
Although this does not mean that you have chosen incorrectly when choosing a porcelain floor, if not you may have other problems that have solution and we will see throughout the article, or simply not doing the cleaning Properly, since the cleaning of porcelain floor is different from the rest of pavements.
And if you had never had a porcelain floor in your house, maybe you are using the cleaning techniques that you used with the previous floor and that you worked perfectly, but it turns out that now do not leave you well clean porcelain floor you have .
Let's start the article to see if the problem is due to some of these causes and if they have easy solution.
A good cleaning of porcelain floor starts from its tiling
The pavement of a house is practically the last thing that is placed in a comprehensive reform of masonry, or is the last thing that should be placed, to avoid that the works that the integral reform of masonry entails can make that the dirt that in the work is produced End up staining and tarnishing the shine of the porcelain pavement.
Like, if you're not going to do a comprehensive reform of masonry, if you are not going to reform the kitchen, or the bathroom, and you have porcelain floor in the rest of the floor of the house, the correct thing is that the bricklayers cover the same with a tarp to avoid the treads with Dirty feet above the porcelain floor that could tarnish it.
And if it is a reform of masonry, as after placing the porcelain floor, the carpenter must enter for kitchen furniture, doors and preframes, as well as the painter or the yesaire to make the walls, take the gotelé and paint, the right , is to cover the porcelain pavement, to avoid stains and dirt that could fall on top of it.
Porcelain Flooring Placement
The porcelain floor is to be placed with porcelain glue cement , is a logical thing, but if you did not know, it is advisable to know in order to hire the tiling of the porcelain floor with the bricklayers or the reformist, which must be with Porcelain glue cement with a level of teeth.
That you do not put the tiles porcelains with mortar or mixture of cement and sand, besides that over time will be released, this mixture of mortar lets the humidity pass, and if you live on a ground floor moisture will climb up the joints up , manchándote The edge of the porcelain floor gaskets.
It can even occur, depending on the type of porcelain flooring you have placed, as there are glazed porcelain floors, where only the enamel is porcelain, while the base of the piece is a normal tile cake, which if Placed with mortar or mixture of cement and sand, as this cake is not porcelain and has absorption, the pieces are tarnished under the enamel.
If you have the pieces fogged under the enamel, because you have placed the porcelain floor with mortar, you can do little, and you will see Machas normally in the center of the piece, which have a higher pitch than the rest of the pavement, and this is due to moisture D Ebajo of the piece.
Nor is it worth the time to place the Rachoas porcelains that use the technique of stained with cement glue, this technique is used by some bricklayers to save in cement glue and consists, after applying a layer of mortar leveling when the Mortar is still wet, applying a little porcelain glue cement on the base of the piece quite liquid and placing it on top of the mortar.
Since the mortar has not yet hardened and is mixed with the cement glue, it makes that in certain areas the piece is in direct contact with the mortar, which makes them look different spots or stains on the pavement, to be in contact with mortar instead of cement C White porcelain Wave (I had forgotten to say that the porcelain glue cement should be non-gray white which is cheaper).
If this is your case, here you do not have a feasible solution with the idea to solve the problem of cleaning porcelain floor, because the problem is still under the enamel.
If you opt for todomasa porcelain paving, where both the glaze and the biscuit paste is porcelain, in this case, it will have less absorption and it is more difficult that you can see the moisture problem below the piece, since there will be less Absorption, though if you have been placed with mortar instead of cola porcelain, by the joints is more than probable.
That the rubber baton used by the Masons tiling to hit the porcelains tiles and that the glue cement expands well by the base of the same, be white because if they use the typical black, remains can be introduced from this Rubber in the micro-pores of the pavement, and we already have another problem if solution, or with a really complicated and expensive cleaning solution that would change the tone of the pavement.
Most of these porcelains tiles are rectified or microbeveled (which have little bevel compared to a normal stoneware floor or tile), this will normally make the seller of the tile shop, especially in elongated pieces, which You can't work more than 15%.
And that they are placed with joints at least 1 mm in size, and if they are quite put in the subject of tiling of porcelain pavements will recommend the leveling kits for pavements that are on the market, and that are being very used today.
The fact of not working more than 15% besides that we avoid eyebrows in the tiles and pavements that are produced by the curvature of the pieces, avoid that when passing over we stumble that the feet that will make us leave more dirt on the pavement.
And the size of the joints, besides for a better placement and finishing of the porcelains platelets, will be used to make the grouting, coating material penetrate perfectly into the joints of the pavement or porcelain tiles.
Grouting the porcelain floor
Here is another important point to consider when you are going to put a porcelain floor, and that will influence the finish of the same, and the cleaning of the rear porcelain floor.
The grouting should be done with specific products already prepared, which are flexible, anti-moisture and anti-mildew, not to be grouted with normal white cement in broth, as this material, which is like They were grouting the pavements before, it has absorption, besides attracting more stains, it attracts moisture from under the pavement, and the joints can be ugly, yellowish and black.
When you do the grouting with this special slurry for porcelain flooring, you must do it with a rubber trowel to expand the product well and penetrate perfectly into the joints of the Racholas porcelains, not using a metal trowel, because Metallic stains can be left to the friction of the galvanized sheet of the metal trowel with the porcelain tile.
And the cleaning of the porcelain floor where the enamel has metallic stripes is very complicated to make and that it is well.
Therefore, it is the usual, but just in case, check as you will do the grouting of the pavement and it is with a rubber trowel.
That do not extend a large surface of grout, especially in times where it is hot, because it will dry quickly on top of the porcelain, and then it is very difficult to remove properly, leaving the pavement tarnished, and even if we use a Cementdescaling, it won't be perfect.
The normal is to extend 3 or 4 m2 of grout pavement, and then to be prepared when they begin to appreciate that begins to dry to make the cleaning of porcelain floor of the remains of this grout that has been left out of the gasket.
That the cleaning of the grout is not with tow or sisal which is a technique used by many bricklayers to clean the grout that is above the porcelains tiles, this tow, sisal or Esparto, besides that is abrasive and not cleaning with the Perfection that requires the cleaning of polished porcelain floor.
The best is a sponge-based float, that in a bucket of clean water we will wet and drain, so that it does not carry too much water, and when it starts to dry the grout then we pass on it with the same one, and perfectly clean the remainders from grouting outside the Ju NTAs, and it will be the most delicate way to clean the porcelain floor with shine.
The problem of cleaning porcelain flooring is not always the fault of the material.
As we can see by the advice we are giving you on the placement and grouting of porcelains platelets, which can make the finish is not what we want, and that can lead us to think that the porcelain floor we bought is bad quality D.
Or that the seller of the tile shop has deceived us, or that the brand of porcelain tiles is not good, we must take into account how important it is, as we see in this part of the article, the details of a correct tiling, so that the material is perfect Placed and maintain the aesthetics that we liked in the store.
If you are reading this article because you have problems with the cleaning of porcelain floor gloss, you may not fijases in these details, but if you have not already placed it, can help you to be on top and watch that the whole process is done Correct.
Clean porcelain floor After the end of the work
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If you have taken into account the above considerations of laying and grouting porcelain stoneware, when we finish the work we will simply use a neutral concentrated detergent for final cleaning of the porcelain pavement, before starting to put Furniture and home furnishings.
The best brand of tile and paving cleaning products is currently the FILA brand, which has a wide variety of specific solutions depending on the type of tile and pavement (normal stoneware, porcelain stoneware, terracotta, natural stone).
Although, there are many other manufacturers, above all we find that many manufacturers of cola cement also offer within their products catalog these cement removers, or descaling cement and general cleaning work, which are also very effective .
If you have been looking for information on the cleaning of porcelain floor, in practically all you have found as a recommended product, neutral concentrated DETERGENT FILACLEANER and I will not take the opposite to the other blogs, because I have tried it, in fact I spend it a couple of times a year for the deep cleaning of the floors of my house, and you notice the difference with products to clean less specific soils.
So if you have just done the reform of masonry, have been on confirming that were followed the advice of placement and tiling, the enamel and the brilliance of the porcelain tile, will be almost perfect, so with using FilaCleaner to clean Work will suffice.
If you see traces of grout cement, empañones in different areas, and ultimately a dirtier porcelain floor of the normal, then you will have to use a more aggressive cleaning agent, in this case a cement descaling acid, which as in the previous case, the Product of Fila Deterdek is the most recognized within the sector.
But we can find other brands, which also have good products.
Eye when using acidic products for the cleaning of the porcelain pavement!!:
First, before proceeding to the cleaning of porcelain floor, is to read the method of use and the technical data of the same, how we apply it and always do a little test in an area that is not going to see, as we are doing the cleaning of the end of work before To place furniture, cupboards and other, we can try in an area that is going to go covered.
In case, the porcelain pavement in question does not react well with the descaling acid, and then creates another problem, instead of solving the problem of cleaning the porcelain pavement.
So we try as indicated by the manufacturer we have to try, and if we see that soil does not give problems, because as we commented there are different types of porcelain, we can use it to do the general cleaning of the house, with this product.
And then proceed to put all the furniture and furnish the house.
Clean porcelains tiles After they have been laid for a while.
If after a while and after following the cleaning councils of the bricklayers, who sold us the porcelain floor and the factory, the polished porcelain flooring that we buy does not look like we think it should look, possibly we have looked in information, about Solutions and tricks for the cleaning of porcelain floor and we have seen different blogs.
In practically all you advise the use of a descaling acid, or a thorough cleaner that removes grease, organic remains, ultimately a deeper cleaning system, but from my point of view, you have to keep an eye on this.
Since after finishing the work, practically all the porcelain pavement has suffered the same exposure to dirt, and therefore the application of these cleaning systems are more effective than after a while since the pavement is placed.
The reason is that after placing the furniture, and spend time living, and living with the platelets porcelains shine there will be areas that will be more punished by use, areas such as kitchen, or lounge, and areas less punished as rooms.
In this case, for the cleaning of porcelain flooring it is advisable to use a different concentration of product to test the thorough cleaning of the porcelain floor.
As it can happen that when cleaning with the same concentration, we have clearer areas and other areas with darker shades, because we will have areas that have more dirt and others with less.
So in this case, it's more complicated to clean up.
The best to avoid this, since the placement be on top of that is done correctly, so that all the platelets porcelains look the same.
How to clean the porcelain floor of the works?
As we are insisting throughout the article, the cleaning of porcelain of remains of work is the most important task for our porcelain floor to look perfect, without stains or lamparones that afeen the brightness of it.
You have tried all the homemade tricks to clean the porcelain pavement like using vinegar diluted with water, or mixing bicarbonate and water to scrub on the pavement, tricks of cleaning of floors that usually work, but in the case of the remains of work (grout, plaster, paint, etc.), of first seem to clean them, but when it dries reappear.
Faced with these stains of remains of work we have to go to specific cleaning products, descaling cement and more aggressive products that eliminate the stains, but as they are more aggressive we have to read well the technical characteristics, as some even They can damage metals such as aluminum or stainless steel.
So eye, if we are going to apply these products near bathroom taps, moldings or aluminum corners used as valances, or any type of ceramic trellis, as they could eat the same.
Within the sector of ceramics, the brand of cleaner products recommended for work is the FILA brand, which practically all ceramic tile manufacturers recommends, as it is the most focused brand is to find the needs of the customer, and Manufacture all cleaning products related to tile tiling.
In the case of persistent remains, and if we have tried with the homemade tricks of cleaning as water with vinegar or water with ammonia it is best to move to specific cleaning products, the desincrustrantes cement, which are the best for final cleaning work .
But with the precaution of first do a test on an area that is not going to see, since in principle should not damage the enamel on which it is applied, because the porcelain enamel is the hardest and toughest, but as there are so many products in the market , and many Chinese porcelain floors on the market, it is best to err on the top of caution.
How is the DETERDEK applied?
- Dissolve in water heats a proportion of 1/5 of Deterdek, being able to use more concentration if there are areas with more dirt than others.
- Apply the mixture on the surface to be cleaned and let act on 30 seconds, if they are very concentrated machas, can be used directly and then have a bucket of clean water to remove the same and finish cleaning.
- Rub with a non-abrasive brush to remove the stains and thus descale the enamel and then rinse with clean water.
- Then we dry with absorbent paper, and it must have been clean.
Daily cleaning of porcelain floors: do not scrub with Mocho
One of the characteristics of porcelains tiles is that they have very little absorption, which is fine if we drop oil to the ground, some tomato, or foodstuffs that could be absorbed as occurs with natural stone and leave a permanent stain In that type of pavements that are not porcelain.
But this advantage is important, but it helps us to think that if they have little absorption, if every day we scrub them with water will be lamparones of this water to evaporate on top of the piece of porcelain.
Therefore the cleaning of porcelain floor or daily porcelain should not do with Mocho and MOP, the daily cleaning of soil porcelain must be done with mop.
We will use the mop and mop-specific cleaner product for the daily cleaning of the porcelain floors, as it allows us to eliminate dirt, footprints and treads, and will not be tarnished or with traces or fogged or lamparones by evaporation of water On top of the porcelain piece that is not absorbed by it.
Weekly or fortnightly cleaning of porcelain floor: hot water and Mocho
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Every week or every fortnight depending on the use and the dirt that is the porcelain pavement we will proceed to a depth cleaning.
The best for the cleaning of porcelain floor is to choose the day where fewer people are at home, or that Siimplemente no one will tread on top, as the drying time of the water is greater than in normal stoneware floors.
Then we'll get hot water in a bucket, concentrated detergent, not a lot of it, so that there are no traces of this detergent on top of the indoor floorings soils and we'll scrub with Mocho.
Let dry, which as we commented on the drying time is greater than in other types of soils, and we will give a review with MOP and MOP cleaner product to remove all the mists for the rest of water, and porcelains platelets will be impeccable.
Clean specific stains on porcelain pavement or pavement joints
If we dropped a product such as coffee, a cola product, or mud stains, and we do not plan to clean all the porcelain floor, as if we want to clean the joints porcelains, a product that I have tested and works perfect, is the gasket cleaner of a row.
It is not an acid product so it does not damage the enamel or the joints, and has surfactants that get a great cleaning, you can try it and discuss how.