What Is the Best Machine for Cleaning Ceramic Floors?

Extraction Cleaners

• Some extraction-type carpet and hard flooring cleaners are also suitable for ceramic tiled surfaces. These cleaner feature an attachment, used in conjunction with the extension hose, with which to clean the grout. Detergent solution is dispensed from the machine's cleaning tank. The attachment spreads it on and scrubs the grout, before the cleaner sucks the solution and loosened dirt into its recovery tank. The main floor-cleaning head is used to clean the ceramic tiles. As with the grout cleaner, the floor-cleaning head dispenses detergent solution, then its larger brushes scrub the tile surface. The dirty water is then sucked back into the machine.

Dry Vapor Steam Cleaners

• Dry vapor steam cleaners can clean ceramic tiled floors without the use of chemicals. One of the small round brushes is attached to an extension wand. The grout is then scrubbed. When the grout is clean, the small brush is removed, and the floor attchment placed back in position. A large microfiber towel or cleaning cloth is clipped to the floor cleaning head, and the ceramic tile surfaces are steam mopped.The combination of heat and moisture cleans dirt from the tile surface, as well as any dirt loosened during the grout cleaning.

Steam Mops

• Steam mops work in the same way as canister steam cleaners. However, their floor cleaning heads are much bigger, so they cover more of the floor at one time. Steam mops require the use of special microfiber pads, designed to fit the cleaning heads. To clean ceramic tiled floors with a steam mop, you'll need one that converts to a hand-held steamer. This allows the steamer to be used in conjunction with the small round brush for cleaning the grout.

Steam Vacuums

• A new type of steam cleaner, the steam vacuum, makes ceramic floor tile cleaning even easier. This machine can be used as a conventional vacuum, a steam cleaner, or a combination of the two. Ceramic floor tile grout is cleaned using steam and the small round brush. However, the brush is followed along the grout by the vacuum's crevice nozzle, which immediately removes all dirt loosened by steam cleaning. The machine can also be used to both suction clean and steam mop the ceramic tile surfaces.

Conclusions

• If you want to clean your ceramic tile flooring in as eco-friendly a way as possible, a dry vapor steam cleaner does so without the use of chemicals. A dry vapor steam vacuum is the most labor-saving of these devices, as it suctions off the dirt as soon as it's loosened by the steam's heat and moisture. If you want to use chemicals, then a carpet/hard floor extraction cleaning machine with an attachment for grout is the best choice.