How do you clean your wet room floor?

[Catcrazy85]

I have a wet room that I use as a utility room, and I put the cats food and litter tray in there. There is no shower fitting so it's not actually used as a wet room.
But the flooring is an absolute nightmare, there is ground in dirt into it that I can't get out with a mop and soapy water.
It's like a rough non slip flooring, and it looks awful with all the stains. Is there anything I could use to make it look clean again, I'm actually embarrassed about it! It looks like I haven't bothered cleaning it when I have mopped it so many times.

Yes, I feel your pain! We use a hard bristle brush with a squeegee on the other side. Takes some elbow grease to get the dirt up but the harder the bristle, the more effective the result

I'd like to know this, too. We have a wet room in use with the same type of flooring you've mentioned. It's been cleaned so far with hot water, cleaner, mop, but it just doesn't feel really clean, Does it need a specialised solution, I wonder?

Non slip flooring can be hard to clean because the non slip surface is sort of rough. Think of the difference between glass and sandpaper for slipperiness. Having said that, the best way to clean a (waterproof!) floor that won't just wipe clean is to flood the floor with diluted cleaning product. Ever have a dishwasher or washing machine flood? Isn't the floor clean once you've finished mopping up, same principle. Protect adjacent flooring from the flood. Mix up your cleaning solution - test it in an inconspicuous are first if you think it might stain/mark/bleach the floor. Then puddle the floor with the solution and let it stand a while. Agitate it with a mop or brush, and let it sit some more. Finally, remove the cleaning product with a mop or a wet vac, repeat the treatment as necessary, and finally rinse thoroughly with plenty of clean water, as leaving cleaning product residue will attract more dirt.

I used to work for commercial cleaners and the above method works on Altro non slip flooring, and also stone and tile type floors.

@AnotherCrazyBirdLady yes the flooring is very gritty, so a mop is literally doing nothing. I think I'm going to need a form bristle brush. I did see something on Amazon for wet floor room, it was a cleaning solution. Will see if I can link it, no idea of it's any good though

@Catcrazy85 that would be great - thanks!

@Noseyoldcow thank you for the detailed info, I will definitely give that a go..is there any particular cleaning solution I should use? And do I dilute it with water and then just pour it into the floor?

@AnotherCrazyBirdLady https://amzn.eu/d/isXAS6E this is the link for the safety flooring cleaner

Wonderful, many thanks 😊and @Noseyoldcow some great advice there!

I’d suggest a rubber blade type thing. Something like this
www.amazon.co.uk/Mitclear-Squeegee-Extension-Scrubber-Bathroom/dp/B0BZKV56TK

My wet room floor is the bane of my life, it never looks clean, even when I've just scrubbed it on my hands and knees! I've used every product I can think of. It's worse in the shower area, and I can't use the 'flood with product and leave' method as it slopes to the middle where the (plugless) drain is. Mine goes a few inches up the wall too, where it also looks shit. I hate it!

Also, just to add, wetrooms are often installed for disabled people (as in my case) which makes it extra evil that their floors are such bastards to clean.

I wonder if blasting it with a hand held steamer wold work. One where you can direct the jet of steam to a precise area.

I (by which I mean my children, not me personally) use a stiff bristled brush and a bowl of soapy water. On hands and knees and scrub.

Agree with the flooding idea

I had a spill of white vinegar based cleaning stuff on tiled kitchen floor, left it 30 min as I had urgent thing to do, lo and behold when I wiped it up all the grime from the grout came away.

However - you don’t need to flood. In fact don’t flood as it could get under your utility cabinets or skirting boards and cause expansion or flaking. Get a spray bottle and spray very generously. Then leave for 20-30 min and then scrub with bristle brush. Use a cloth to wipe the grey liquid away as you go.

Bit of elbow grease still needed but nothing like as much as without the vinegar.

Sorry ignore me about cabinets and skirting boards! For some reason I thought it was your utility but now see it’s a wet room. Flood away!!

I got some brushes that fit on a drill. Throw some pink paste down and it takes minutes with the cordless drill. It's so easy. We hadn't done ours in a long time and when DH did this the files and grout look like brand new.

I'm starting to think the only thing that will work is a pressure washer

I have a wetroom with Altro safety floor mentioned above
I use well diluted floor cleaner( method at the moment) squirted all over then brushed hard towards the drain with a rubber broom
I also have a handheld one which I use around the toilet to get all the way round.
I'm delighted with it!

Sorry not to reply until now......use any cleaning product you like to puddle the floor. I'd use something that's good on grease, that seems to be what makes dirt stick so, apart from the roughness of the floor. Probably something like Flash, the old powder stuff was quite good, not sure you can still get it. The Flash spray and wipe kitchen stuff is good on the skanky grout in my tiled floors, so I'm sure it would work on yours, but it's a bit expensive to flood whole floors with. Mind you, as you're desperate, might be worth it.

I use a very strong and tough sweeping brush, washing up liquid and elbow grease. We have a mud room with drains and a textured floor and it was the bane of my life using a small scrubbing brush.