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Mop the floor weekly - hmm. I will draw a veil over this idea!

Mopping the floor just pushes the dirt into the grouting - think about it.

That's why the grime has accumulated there. The only way to get the grouting clean would have been to run a cloth along all the edges of the tiles after mopping, preferably with a bleach solution, pushing it into the furrows with your fingertip.

The only way to clean the floor would really be to scrub it like in the olden days. I mop mine every week, too, but if I go to pick up an extra bit of dirt immediately after mopping, say, with a piece of loo paper, and the floor is still damp, the paper comes up black and full of dust, fluff and bits. Good job I can't see it all that well without my glasses!

I deliberately chose pale grey grouting for this dark slate tiles in our en suite.
Not such a silly idea then!

Oh heck, " *the dark slate tiles"

granjura what was the type of hand held steam cleaner that you bought? Some have such poor reviews that I have not got around to buying one and I really must because my oven needs to be cleaned and preferably with minimum effort from me.

It's a Polti- got 'free' with points from HyperU (French supermarket)- it has a handle and mop for floors, which can be removed and used hand held with tools. The grouting is now light grey- not sure if it ever was white or not. I will do the grouting again with a bleach spray in about a month's time and see ;)

We have grey tiles with grey grouting as the tiles looked awful with white grouting. Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!!!!

lol, exactly what we did in the new guest bathroom - and I didn't even know about the old one then ;)

now off at a tangent- talking about 'free' gadgets- just made an iced soufflé with my old Kenwood beater- got it free with greenshield stamps in 1971!