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How Can I Fix Epoxy Grout in Shower Stall?

ANSWER - Sorry to hear about your epoxy grout problem.  It should have been finished by the installer in a manner so it was smooth and would not tend to pick up dirt and would…

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How Do I Clean Dirty Tile and Grout?

ANSWER - I'm not sure if you are saying that your bone color grout is dirty and you can't get it to clean or if your ceramic tile is dirty and you can't get it clean. …

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How to Clean Soap Scum Staining on Limestone and Slate?

ANSWER - The more texture you have on a stone finish the more difficult it will be to clean and the more often you need to clean it.  Sealers help because they act as bond-breakers and…

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Ceramic and Porcelain Tile cleaning Maintenance

Tile Edges Stained does glaze normally get darker from foot traffic?

ANSWER - I assume you have a glazed porcelain ceramic tile. It is true that tile surfaces with a texture or an undulating surface will tend to pick up or trap dirt in its crevices.…

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Can you use wax on ceramic tile?

Yes you can wax the surface of ceramic tile, although you then will have to maintain that surface. Wax can offer some protection to the ceramic tile surface and give it more of a sheen.…

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Best way to clean slate that has pencil marks on it?

ANSWER - Pencil marks can be difficult to get off some stone surfaces. One thing to try that has worked quite well is to get a clean pencil eraser and try erasing it off. Other…

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Ceramic and Porcelain Tile cleaning failures sealers

Have you heard of top layer peeling from ceramic tiles?

ANSWER - If there is something peeling from your ceramic tile, then there must have been a sealer applied to it. The glaze on a glazed ceramic tile will chip off, but not peel off.…

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Remove grout residue? And good sealer for stone?

ANSWER - What you use to remove the grout residue off the stone depends on what kind of grout was used. A standard cement based grout can normally be wet with a sponge and then…

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How is Tumbled Stone supposed to be treated?

ANSWER - Tumbled stone comes in many different types of stone. Some stone is more porous and are unfilled types of stones such as travertine. People have different preferences on how they treat the stone.…

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