QUESTION

Cleaning Porcelain Tile - since a year and a half, I have a new gres porcellanato lappato floor. The floor always looks stained, even if it is freshly cleaned. Cement has been removed with a special remover, difficult stains have been removed with "Hg remover". After doing that, the floor looked really great.

If I scrub it now (not just easy cleaning!) with a brush and with "Hg quick", or with "Lithofin intensive cleaner", it is clean, but that's a hard work. If I clean the normal way, without scrubbing and only with a mop or swab, it isn't clean at all. I know that I don't use too much of the cleaning product, and I take care to leave the tiles as dry as possible. Also, I use rainwater to prevent limestone deposit. The products that I use are especially developed for tiles like ours, and don't leave "layers" on the floor (at least, that I'm told) The kind of stains that are visible are shiny stains, for example when a table or armchair has been moved, it leaves a shiny track that only can be removed by hard work and lots of sweat... also spots and stripes are visible, especially when viewed in direct light. All kinds of light (natural from the window, or artificial from lamps, make the floor look terrible. I don't know anymore what I can do in addition to what I do now. Some people say the floor has to "mature", and "that takes time", but I don't believe that, since it is clean if it is treated very intensively. I would like to have a cleaning-method that is not too much of a work, cause I was told the floor would be a "dream" to maintain. Now, it has only been a nightmare instead. Could you give me a good advice?

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