My wife has problem trying to clean the white grouting in our shower which is tiled in white. We think that the grouting becomes discoloured by the soap as the grouting outwith the shower remains white. We bought a steam cleaner which we thought might help but no joy. Can anyone tell us how to easily clean the grouting Blair
An old nail-brush and some cream-cleaner usually does the job ok. Not the liquid CIF type stuff - but the mildly abrasive type of cleaner.
Kev
If the worst comes to the worst, rake it out and re-grout. Then treat with Lithofin Grout Protector before using it to stop it staining in the future.
if you have hard water ("outwith" sounds very Scottish) as bad as our English stuff, it could be a mix of dirt and limescale which domestic cleaners won't even make a dent in. Try limescale remover, but eventually it will dissolve all the grout as well as the dirt.
rusty
Thanks for your help Yes I am in Scotland but "outwidth" meant to refer the other tiles in the bathroom and not wirhin the shower enclosure. Blair
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Yes, we know! The Scottish word "outwith" is actually more economical on words that the English equivalent of "outside of".
Isn't the original (ie olde) English equivalent actually "without"?
As in,
"There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall..." (can't remember the rest. Mary?!)
David
You may well be right! Don't think it's used now in everyday parlance, though - whereas the Scottish "outwith" *is*.
[Just looked up 'without' in my dictionary - and it does indeed have an archaic meaning of "outside"].
I'm sure Shakespeare used to witter on about "who's without" meaning who's outside, not who hasn't got one.
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