At my wits end with trying to clean matt black textured bathroom tiles.

[IHeartKingThistle]

I stupidly let DH choose the tiles in our bathroom. There are large matt black textured tiles on the floor, right up one wall and on two walls of the shower (with black grout). The two end walls have light blue mosaic tiles (white grout). They have been in a year and although the blue tiles look OK, the black ones have never looked clean, not once. There's always white stuff on them,the white grout leaves marks on the black tiles, there are water marks and now there are random white patches of toothpaste/maybe bathroom cleaner? The soul destroying thing is that while I'm scrubbing it looks like they're getting clean, but then they dry and there is NO DIFFERENCE. Any cloth/sponge gets caught on the textured bits so you end up with loads of fibres on the wall as well

Please help! It's making me feel stabby towards DH (why, why did I let him choose???).

PS I would make him clean it but I am a SAHM and I have no problem with our division of labour! Although he is NEVER choosing anything again

Oh no, SOMEONE must have experience of this!

Maybe use one of those mops that is like a sponge on a stick. At my explanation but hopefully you know what I mean.

Also love sugar soap for cleaning most walls/floors but check it can be used on your tiles.

Hth

I'm a recent convert to e cloths.

They are expensive to buy but because you don't use detergents, you don't get sticky residue. So once it's clean, it's easier to clean - if you see what I mean.

First clean needs a bit of elbow grease but after that you can just wipe over. And you get e cloths for floors.

I hate cleaning. Good luck.

My God!!!! I've had a thread about this before its a bloody bigger yes strangle dh. I moved in to a house and the whole bathroom floor is black tiled textured I hate it so much!!! I don't know what to do either I'm down on hands and knees scrubbing them and now I think it's made it worse because soap just gets stuck. They look dreadful. So I've been doing some ground work apparently you can give then like a sort if inside power hose then treat them with some product or other so let's try and keep this thread open and I will let you know the outcome. In mean time deep breathes! I know! I'm 40 weeks pregnant so it might take me a while to sort this out!

Ooh ideas! Sugar soap I already have, will try that!

Ha sweetie! Power hose eh? I've been wondering about steam cleaning but I have doubts about that too...

If none of that works, black floor paint would make them easier to clean

I had something similar in a rented property, and the LL told me to use white spirit to get the white marks off. It worked but of course it stunk of white spirit! Perhaps it could be used once every so often for maintenance? (of course check it's definitely suitable for your tiles)

Ooh, another thought - what about something greasy, like baby oil? Maybe that would clean without leaving obvious residue (it's good for shiny metal in that way)? I also read a tip on here about using car wax to make the bathroom tiles sort of splashproof so they didn't get watermarked easily.

Sorry that's not so useful as I haven't tried them on those tiles, but thought I'd share anyway...

That's what I was wondering delasi - if I can get them clean is there something I can apply to them to make them easier to clean.

Steam cleaner definitely! My mother has these in a student house. It is an under stair toilet and they go ceiling to floor on the back wall then the floor. After a year of students you can imagine the state! I sprayed it all with a anti bac spray left for 10 minutes then went over with steamer and dried with an e cloth. Perfect results! Dm was astounded