Quick, easy ways to keep your tiles clean

Interior finishing today uses more tiles than a few years ago. This is especially so for the kitchen and bathroom, although tiles are to be found in almost every room in a house today. So, how do you keep them clean?

Kitchen

1. Use baking soda, sprinkled lightly on a damp sponge, to easily remove grease from tiles behind the hob.

2. Clean grout between the tiles with a toothbrush, working in a paste of vinegar and baking powder or baking soda and lemon juice. Leave for a couple of hours and rinse off.

3. Clean greasy tiles with lemon juice.

Bathroom

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1. Before cleaning bathroom tiles, run the shower on hot for five minutes to steam dirt loose.

2. Clean grout with a mixture of baking soda and lemon juice. Lemon juice is a natural lightener and baking soda is a natural scourer and odour absorber.

3. Use baking soda and a gentle scouring pad on tough stains.

4. If tiles are very greasy use lemon juice or vinegar – nature’s degreasers!