Our tips help you keep microbes away and make your bathroom floor sparkle.
(Do not mix bleach with ammonia or with other cleaners; the combination can create toxic vapors).
Exhaust fans that vent outside of the bathroom can help with moisture buildup.
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Protect Yourself and Your Family
If you have sensitive skin, wear cleaning gloves.
Cleaners can have strong chemicals that irritate the skin and cause respiratory problems.
Instead, the best way to clean a bathroom floor is with a small,high-quality broom.
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Sweep along the edges of the room and work to collect dust and dirt in the middle.
Don’t forget to reach around the base of the toilet where dust likes to collect!
An easy way to pick up your small dust pile is with a slightly damp paper towel.
Wash Floors
Keep your cleaning bucket stowed while you clean bathroom floors.
Instead of hauling it upstairs with your mop, turn your bathroom sink into a makeshift bucket.
All you gotta do is kill the drain and fill the sink with 2 gallons of warm water.
Add 1/4 cup vinegar and 1 tablespoon dish soap; mix until suds form.
Submerge a rag into the mixture and wring away excess water.
Rinse the rag between passes.
Dry Floors
Towel-drying your floors is the best way to ensure they’re left sparkling.
But why make it any harder than it needs to be?
Large bathrooms may require two towels, depending on how wet they get.
Be sure you’re starting at the far end of your bathroom so you finish drying by the door.
This way you don’t have to walk over your freshly cleaned floors to exit.
How to Clean Bathroom Floor Tiles
Clean bathroom tile and grout with your choice of products.
The best way to clean bathroom tiles is by starting with the basic cleaning steps above.
This will remove the dirt and grime from the tile surface before youclean tile grout.
For mildly dirty grout, combine two partsbaking sodaand one part water.
Swap the water with vinegar if your bathroom grout is stained or discolored.
Combine two parts baking soda with one part hydrogen peroxide if you’re cleaningcoarse or fragile tiles.
Then, use a spare toothbrush to apply the cleaning solution to the grout.
Apply it all at once to save time.
Rinse and Seal
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