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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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If you have a home renovation, home cleaning, home décor, cleaning products background, job, or site, you are a perfect candidate to promote Grout Shield’s grout cleaning, grout sealing, and grout restoration products and accessories. However, you don’t have to know everything about our products to become an affiliate – we will arm you with lots of information to represent our product correctly.

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At Grout Shield, our affiliate program is FREE to join, but we do learn about you first before accepting you into the program. 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 using your AD purchases a Grout Shield product, you’ll earn a commission for that sale. You will earn 10% commission per order. read more

Pets are part of people’s lives. Besides homes, pets are being welcomed in more establishments, especially pets who help those with disabilities or support. Pets can easily drag dirt, fur, and germs wherever they go. Sometimes, pets even have an accident on the floor. Pets can easily dirty or wreck a floor.

If you need to restore a floor that has been dirtied by pets, you can do it on the cheap with quality grout cleaning and grout sealing products. With the right grout restoration products, you won’t even know a pet has walked through the room!

Normal cleaning products cannot easily remove dirt from grout. Dirt, spills, urine, and liquids can seep into porous grout lines. Grout Shield offers many products that remove dirt and liquids that have deeply penetrated the grout lines, including pet urine. If pet urine isn’t cleaned up immediately, it can seep deep into the grout lines, which means your home or business may smell bad even after you clean the floor. If your grout isn’t properly cleaned, you can also have lots of bacteria and other germs in the grout lines. read more

Grout can be very hard to clean if you don’t have the proper grout cleaner. Soap and water usually can’t do the job, and your grout can remain looking dirty even after you’ve mopped or scrubbed.

With the right grout products, you can make cleaning your tile and grout a faster and stress-free process. Grout Shield provides quality tile and grout cleaners and sealers that have been helping people and businesses get grime, dirt, and germs out of their grout!

Below, we’ve shared descriptions of two of our cleaner products, and how to use them.  The instructions will help you easily clean away the dirty grout that you haven’t been able to get rid of all these years.

Before using any grout cleaner product: Sweep the area to make sure any loose debris is gone. A mop is recommended for cleaning.

Grout Shield Maintenance Cleaner – This is a neutral pH-cleaner that helps grout lines become renewed and clean. It is a non-combustible, fast-acting concentrate.

To use: 1. Dilute in water. The dilution rate is 2 oz. to 1 gallon of water. 2. Apply to the surface with a damp mop or sponge. During application, the cleaner will start to dissolve grease, dirt, and oil. Keep product on grout for 10-15 minutes. 3. Towel dry the area. read more