Where’s all the grout gone? In the case of Victorian tiled floors you’ll find that there was never a real grout, more the use of a cement slurry or the actual mortar material was used.

This will over time will have worn and fallen out, only to be replaced by dirt and debris trampled in from outside or from elsewhere within the house. So the dirty grey lines between the tiles that you associate with being grout often isn’t grout at all, just compacted dirt. Ironically it is often this compacted dirt that holds some tiles into the floor.

Naturally when we come along and deep clean your floor, chances are that this dirt will be removed and leave your with beautifully clean although empty grout joints. This is why we always recommend that your floor is re-grouted to fill the joints back up, and prevent more dirt from filing those nice clean open joints. Unfortunately many customers tend not see the importance of a re-grout and as a result choose not to pay for the service, even though it completes the floors protection and makes for a better looking floor overall.

We use an excellent highly flexible grout made by Mapei, which we have found to be by far the best material for grouting these floors. As I mentioned the grout is flexible and allows slight movement in the floor before the grout cracks and has a product called ‘bio-block’ which effectively resists mould organisms etc.