Restoring Floors vs. Replacing

Tile is popular because it’s as durable as it is good looking. It doesn’t warp the way hardwood does, and it doesn’t hold dirt and odors the way carpet does, which matters in Arizona where fine sand gets tracked in year round. What tile will do is go dull and discolored over time, especially if nobody’s been sealing it.

Dirty, stained floors take the enjoyment out of a room. In a commercial space they cost you more than that. Customers read a dingy floor as a signal about how you run everything else, and some of them will decide that before anyone says a word to them.

After a weekend of scrubbing with nothing to show for it, replacement starts to feel like the only option left. Anyone who has paid to have tile laid knows what that costs. There’s a middle step most people skip: professional cleaning, and past that, restoration.

Tile And Grout Cleaning

A professional cleaning is enough to fix most floors that look past saving. The difference is equipment and training, not effort. Truck mounted heat and extraction pull out what a mop pushes around, and knowing which chemical belongs on which stone is the part that keeps the grout intact while the dirt comes up. If you run a business, your nightly cleaning crew has neither the machine nor the training for it. That’s a job for a company that does PHX tile and grout restoration specifically.

Done right, it strips years of buildup and gives you back the actual color of the tile underneath. It refreshes the grout at the same time, without the damage you risk when you go at it with harsh cleansers yourself.

Tile Restoration

Sometimes cleaning isn’t enough. That’s where tile and grout restoration near Tempe comes in.

Restoration goes further. It can mean color sealing the grout to cover staining that won’t lift, and it includes sealing the tile and grout afterward so the floor holds its finish and resists the next round of staining. Cracked or chipped tiles can be swapped out individually as part of the same job.

Restoring costs a fraction of replacing, and the gap widens with square footage. On a typical home you’re comparing a four figure restoration against a replacement that runs several times that once you count demolition, materials, labor, and the days you can’t use the room. Scale that to a commercial floor and choosing tile and grout restoration in Phoenix over replacement saves thousands.

Other Factors To Consider

A neglected floor turns into a liability. Say a few tiles have hairline cracks. Cracks widen, the tile works loose, and eventually somebody catches a foot on it and goes down. Now you’re the one answering for the injury, and your insurance carrier is part of the conversation.

Those incidents cost relationships too. In a home it turns into an argument with a friend about who pays for what. In a business it becomes a story about how you keep your building, and that story reaches people you’ll never meet.

Don’t let the price of new tile keep you living with the old floor. Ask about PHX tile and grout cleaning or restoration first and see what the floor looks like cleaned.

Desert Tile & Grout Care handles tile floor restoration along with professional tile and grout cleaning. We work on every kind of stone, including granite, travertine, marble, slate, flagstone, and ceramic, on floors and on walls. Call us to ask what your floors need or to set up an estimate.

About The Authors

Josh Parkhouse and Dan Milne own Desert Tile & Grout Care, a family owned and operated tile, grout, and stone care company based in Gilbert. They’ve spent over 18 years cleaning, sealing, and restoring floors across the Phoenix valley.

Desert Tile & Grout Care
2917 E. Park Avenue, Gilbert, AZ 85234
Phone: 480-288-4475
Web: deserttileandgrout.com