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Default Cleaning tiles and grout

On Jul 13, 11:50*pm, F news@nowhere wrote:
On 13/07/2009 23:04 Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Get a tile grout scraping out tool, scrape it out and regrout it?


I was trying to avoid that and was hoping that someone would come up
with a magic liquid like what you see on telly: sprinkle 5 drops on a
cloth, wave the cloth in the general direction of the tiles and they
sprout little golden stars which go 'ting'!

No?


Almost. Give it a quick clean then a quick scrape over the grout
lines, just enough to bare some degree of grout. Now apply fresh tile
grout, smoothing it down with a sponge etc, creating a new very thin
layer on top of the old. Despite being a horrible bodge it seems to
work ok.


NT