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Who doesn’t love a pasta dinner? Although delicious, the meal can be very messy. Pasta sauce easily splashes, whether you’re eating it, cooking it, stirring it, or serving it. Don’t even think about wearing white while making a pasta dinner! Now, months, and even years, of cooking pasta sauces, and other sauces have likely splattered sauces onto your backsplashes and countertops. Sauce can be easy to wipe off tiles, but the spots can easily absorb into the grout lines and stain your grout.

Tomato-based stains are some of the most common and hardest to clean. Being red, pasta sauce shows up easily on grout lines that are light colored. Since it is porous, grout will absorb all sauce that lands on it. With the right grout cleaning and sealing products, you can clean up the sauce and it will look like the splatters never happened. Remember, you want to clean sauce stains immediately, so the stain is easier to clean up.

Our team at Grout Shield can help you get rid of pasta sauce stains for good. You’ll never know it was there! Stains around your stove from sauce can make your kitchen look really old and dirty, even if you clean it regularly. read more

If you’re eating an Asian-inspired dinner or just enjoy soy sauces and Worcestershire condiments for flavor on your meals, you run the risk of staining your backsplashes and tile floors with the dark coloring. Splashes and spills happen, and dark-condiment sauces stain fast and easily. They can also be difficult to remove from household surfaces.

If you happened to spill a dark sauce onto your grout lines, don’t fret! Our team at Grout Shield can help you get rid of that stain for good. You’ll never know it was there!

In most homes, grout is white or a lighter color, which means it can easily show dark stains. Since it is porous, grout will absorb all the soy sauces and dark sauces it encounters. Dark condiment sauces stain easily and grout can be difficult to clean, so this is a bad combination. However, with the right grout cleaning and sealing products, it will look like the soy sauce stain or splashes never happened.

Most DIY cleaning articles may tell you to clean up the soy sauce with bleach, ammonia or white vinegar. Sure, these home mixes may work, but they also aren’t really cleaning the grout (For example: ammonia contains no cleaning agents), and many of these chemicals can actually cause the grout to crack or break. read more

Blogging can be more than just a fun hobby. It can be a way for you to make some extra cash! If you blog often, especially about cleaning, home products, DIY projects, etc., we have the perfect product for you to promote on your blog. Grout Shield’s grout cleaners, grout sealers, and grout restoration products.

You can join the Grout Shield Affiliate Program for FREE! After providing us with some information, we will know if you are a great fit for our products! Once you’ve been accepted into our program, your goal is to send people to our site and products, You can do this by writing blog post, creating a banner AD, posting about us on social media, making a video or video clip, sending out an email blast, etc. You want to show your clients and audience that our grout products will help them in some way.

So, how does our affiliate program work? Well, we will train you on our product and brand, so you will be successful! You will know our products inside and out.

As an affiliate, you’re provided with a unique coupon tracking code that is tied to your account. Place this on your website or social media!  This AD will instruct the user to use this coupon code at check out.  If someone decides to purchase a Grout Shield product through your special code, you’ll earn a commission for that sale. You will earn 10% commission per order. read more

Accidents happen, including bathroom accidents. Whether it’s a cat, dog, or child, there’s a chance at some point in your home a baby or animal will urinate on your floors. If that’s the case, you need to clean the mess right away. Not only can urine stain your grout, it can smell extremely foul, especially if it’s from a cat.

Our team at Grout Shield can help you get rid urine stains for good. You’ll never know it was there! Besides getting rid of the discoloration, Grout Shield products also rid the grout of bacteria and other harmful germs.

In most homes, grout is white or a lighter color, which means it can easily show urine. Since it is porous, grout will absorb all urine that lands on it. With the right grout cleaning and sealing products, it will look like the bathroom accident didn’t happen. Remember, you want to clean urine stains immediately since urine can grow bacteria, making your floor unsanitary.

Most home-cleaning articles may tell you to clean up the urine with bleach, ammonia or white vinegar. Sure, these home mixes and chemicals may work, but they also aren’t really cleaning the grout (For example: ammonia contains no cleaning agents), and many of these chemicals can actually cause the grout to crack or break. read more

Cracked grout is ugly. It can make any room look older, dirty, and unkempt. Cracked grout sticks out like a sore thumb. There are a few reasons why grout may be cracking, so it’s best you get it inspected by a grout/tile professional to figure out why.

• Grout can crack when there’s too much water mixed into the grout, which create tiny pinholes. When the grout dries, these pinholes make it easier for cracks to form in the grout.
• Too much water in grout can make the grout weaker.
• Grout can crack due to thinset (glue) that is applied over the mortar during installation. If not enough glue was applied, the tile will pull away from the mortar and create air gaps under the tile. The mortar will break, the grout will crack, and tiles will break. If there wasn’t enough glue under the tiles, the tile will become loose. The loosened tile will compromise the grout, which will make it crack and crumble away.
• Grout can crack as the result of improper installation or a defect in the floor.
• If there isn’t enough space in the room, the walls can put pressure on the tiles, causing both the tiles and grout to crack. Tile should also have proper soft joints and expansion joints to keep movement from happening that causes grout cracking.

 

Some cracked grout can easily be replaced or covered with new grout, while other cracks may need new tile installation with the entire room re-grouted. Remember, if you don’t have expertise in tile or grout, call someone that does.

If your cracks are small and not compromising anything, you can mix Grout Shield’s grout color sealer with grout to fill in the cracks and update the grout color.

Watch this video below of how to fixed cracked or missing grout with Grout Shield’s products.

To learn more about Grout Shield’s grout sealer and grout cleaners, click our grout cleaner and grout sealer page  or call 1-800-631-0716.

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