Kitchen and floor tile cleaning in Darwin

Why floor grout gets darker the more you mop

Grout lines sit slightly lower than the tiles. Every time you mop, the dirty water runs into them and dries there, leaving a little more dirt behind. In kitchens, cooking grease settles on the floor near the cooktop and holds onto dirt even more. After a few years, light grout can look brown or grey all over.

A professional clean lets the solution break down grease and grime, scrubs into each grout line, then rinses and extracts the dirty water, so the dirt leaves the floor instead of moving around on it.

What’s included

• Floor tiles and grout in the rooms you book: kitchen, living, dining, hallways, entries
• Degreasing in the kitchen, especially around the cooktop and bench line
• Machine agitation on open areas, hand-brushing along edges and corners
• Rinse and extraction, then a final wipe of the tile surface
• Optional splashback clean ($69) and floor sealing (from $5/m²)

Working out your price

Floors are $9 per square metre. Measure each tiled room (length × width) and add them up. Some examples:

• Kitchen and dining, 20 m²: $180
• Open-plan kitchen, living and hallway, 40 m²: $360
• The same 40 m² with clear sealing: $560

If the grout is very dark from years of build-up, the rate is $12/m². That’s confirmed with you on the day, before any work starts. The minimum booking is $159.

Drying and getting the room back

Floors are usually fine to walk on in socks within an hour or two. Grout dries more slowly, especially in the wet season, so keep the air-con running and outside doors closed on humid days if you can. If you’ve booked sealing, the grout has to dry first. The cleaner will tell you when the floor can take normal traffic again.