Cream floor tiles-big mistake! How to clean?

nanna8

Not my style but one of my daughters makes everyone remove shoes before going into her house. It always looks spotless, including her white tiles.

I remember visiting family in Australia, they had a lovely big house (we'd call it a bungalow here in the UK) and it had pale cream tiles all the way through. She said she was always mopping! They've moved since.

Not my style but one of my daughters makes everyone remove shoes before going into her house. It always looks spotless, including her white tiles.

I’ve bought a new rechargeable floor mop. Comes with scouter pads, microfibres pads and a polisher set. Charge lasts for ages. I use any kitchen cleaning spray I can find at the time.

I sit like a lady on a stool directing my ‘maid’ to scrub. I’m disabled and it’s taken out the stress of cleaning my white wood effect tiles floor. I have two cats and it cleans their mess up beautifully.

Skydancer

Hmm... well I will certainly try some of the recommended ways that some of you have suggested. I hadn't thought of Soda Crystals but do use them for other things and they are very good. Then, if still not satisfied, I think I'll go for the vinyl option as suggested by a couple of people. Someone asked how often do I clean them. The answer is pretty much every day otherwise they look grubby. Thank you all so much. I can always rely on GN for answers to problems.

The trouble is, our ceramic tiles may have to come up before the new flooring goes down.
☹ I shall leave it to the experts to decide.

Hmm... well I will certainly try some of the recommended ways that some of you have suggested. I hadn't thought of Soda Crystals but do use them for other things and they are very good. Then, if still not satisfied, I think I'll go for the vinyl option as suggested by a couple of people. Someone asked how often do I clean them. The answer is pretty much every day otherwise they look grubby. Thank you all so much. I can always rely on GN for answers to problems.

I had heavily textured, cream coloured tiles in my kitchen, and I hated them.

They never looked clean.

Have you tried Flash magic sponge or Elbow Grease magic sponge gets all sorts of marks off floors.

I’d be asking Santa for a robot floor washer I think, at least then you wouldn’t have to do it yourself every day.

We have dark grey tiles in all the bathrooms and have exceptionally hard water. We have spent this weekend scrubbing the white marks off with limescale remover and they still need redoing.

Have you tried a scoop full of soda crystals in whatever liquid cleaner you are using? Combined with white vinegar it is a very effective cleaner on most surfaces.

I would test a section first though to make sure it doesn’t make the tiles slippery.

I feel your pain. We bought our house with kitchen floor tiles that are riven beige. They do hide a certain amount of stains, but the riven texture gathers dirt and to add insult to injury the grouting is recessed, so every little bit sits in it!
I use the Flash floor wipes mop on a daily basis and get down on my knees with a scrubbing brush every so often.
We would replace them, but there’s underfloor heating, so not an easy job. I hate them.

The vinyl in our bathrooms is slightly textured so it's non-slip.
It's also not easy to clean!

I don't know what the best flooring is.

When we refurbished our bathroom, I was so pleased to get rid of the floor tiles. Granted, they were a greyish colour, but a rough matt finish. DH did the grouting, and because they were quite spaced out, the grout was in quite thick lines, always looked rough and grubby.

I now have tough vinyl all through the bungalow, even the bedrooms.

Easy to sweep, vacuum, wash……

We have cream mottled textured tiles in the kitchen and the tiles are fine, but the grout in some areas is discoloured and 😯 a couple of tiles have tiny chips!

We're opting for tough vinyl next time.

Somehow ‘often’ was missed from the first sentence!!

My first question (which is a bit personal!) is how do you/would you be cleaning said tiles?
Sort of off white tiles here, so a spray mop with a microfibre head, one side scrub, the other longer noodles for drying on a daily basis, then I do a weekly clean with a steam mop.

I was thinking of cream tiles in my extension, but I am so glad I chose LVT( luxury vinyl tiles) in cream but with lots of flecks of brown and grey. Any dirt blends in well!

PinkCosmos

I feel your pain. I had the same but also had cream grout which was even more of a nightmare than the tiles.

Could you put vinyl flooring over them. The sort you get on a roll.

If the edges of the ceramic tiles are obvious they might show through a bit but it would be a reasonably cheap option

This kind of thing www.carpet-right.co.uk/vinyl/kitchen-utility

Hg grout cleaner is very good

I also have high gloss finish cream tiles in my kitchen and they are so easy to keep clean, just wipe them over with either a mop or cloth and they still look like new.

This won't help you at all, but do they have a matt finish? I think that may be the problem, as I have high gloss cream tiles which clean up beautifully with a steam mop. I do use a cheap rug under the kitchen table, though, and just get a new one when it starts to look too "lived in".

I have large - ish White ceramic Kitchen tiles with navy blue little ones between the corners. But we used Black grout, Medium size kitchen.
Been down about 20 yrs they are still fine, clean the floor about 2-3 times a week, with depends how grubby they get. Not a chore to clean only takes few minutes with a mop thingy.
We had the kitchen redone about 5 years ago and left them in situ.

I have cream/ white tiles in medium size kitchen and small conservatory and just cleaned them. A quick wipe and they are done. They are about 12 years old and look fine to me. I like that they lighten the rooms.
Your tiles look ok to me escaped, Might make a difference that I don’t do cleaning with my reading glasses on but I am ok with that.

My FiL bought a Flotex carpet to go over tiles in their kitchen. It looked good for many years.

In the meantime maybe just forget to wear your glasses in the kitchen?!

Skydancer

Fortunately our kitchen is tiny. We made the mistake of putting down cream porcelain floor tiles thinking it would make the space look larger which it does. But they just look dirty all the time. Today I have been down on my hands and knees trying to clean them but they still don't look good close up. Two questions: does anyone know of a really good way to clean them? Alternatively is there something I can put over them? I could use a rug but it would need to be washable and cut to shape? Despairing and wish I'd bought the black/grey/white patterned ones. Too late now. No wonder these were on special offer!

I made the mistake of having cream floor tiles in the kitchen in our bungalow, with white grout.
After a few years of trying everything under the sun to clean them we had them covered with cushion floor vinyl in a very forgiving black/grey speckle. Our local carpet shop fitted it for us over the tiles, and the fitter said he’d had to cover up light coloured floors many times.

escaped Sorry to put you through that! Yes mulled wine might definitely be one answer!