By mixing just a few inexpensive household ingredients you can clean and disinfect the red clay tiles with ease.
Best way to clean red quarry tiles.
Pick a mop that won t be broken down by quarry tile.
Test your terracotta tiles for porosity by placing water in the middle of a tile.
Quarry tile is vulnerable to staining and like brick it can be broken if heavy objects are dropped on it.
If after 15 minutes the water has soaked into the floor the tiles will need to be impregnated with boiled linseed oil.
How to seal terracotta tiles.
Tile that has been neglected for a long time may require a professional cleaner to return the tile to its best appearance.
While there are several retail cleaning products on the market using a homemade cleaning solution will be much more cost effective and work just as effectively as high priced commercial products.
A synthetic mop works best.
This project concentrates on the many floors from earlier periods which have simply been covered in bitumen and overlaid with vinyl tiles or lino.
This type of tile can be coarse meaning older string mops won t stand up against it.
Some cleansers are better for indoor applications so read your labels carefully.