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There is a lot of potential for making money to be made by cleaning tile and grout no matter what type of equipment a business has. The start up costs for scrubbing tile and grout by hand are virtually nothing. In most cases though scrubbing tile and cleaning the grout this way will not completely clean the grout the in a way that a professional cleaning machine can. Professional tile and grout cleaning machines can also more efficiently clean large areas of tile and grout to save you from the backbreaking labor of scrubbing tile and grout by hand.
Using a portable steam cleaner for cleaning tile and grout:
A step up from the mop and bucket, scrub pad tile and grout cleaning system is to use a portable steam cleaner to deep clean the grout lines. Portable steam cleaners will assist you in dislodging embedded dirt from the grout lines to get the grout to a much cleaner state. Scrubbing the grout with a scrub pad and using professional tile and grout cleaning products will still be required along with the steam cleaner. Using a portable steam in this way is a long and time consuming process especially when cleaning large areas of tile and grout. Most experienced tile and grout cleaning professionals find using a portable steam cleaner too time consuming and monotonous to effectively clean most tile and grout surfaces.
High pressure portable tile and grout cleaning systems:
A professional high pressure portable tile and grout cleaner works much better than a portable steam cleaner for cleaning large areas of tile and grout. High pressure portable tile and grout cleaners work by shooting a stream of high pressure water onto the tile and grout. At the same time that the high pressure water is applied, the high pressure portable cleaner will suck up and extract the dirty water and excess cleaning solution. The high pressure water spins underneath a contained disk so that the entire cleaning system is self contained. The applied water, dirt and excess cleaning solutions are extracted away into the high pressure portables waste water tank. When the waste water tank is filled it can be dumped out or an automatic pump out system can pump out the dirty cleaning water.
High pressure portable tile and grout cleaners allow you to effectively clean large areas of tile and grout in a much shorter amount of time than the mop and scrub brush method. High pressure portables use 1200 psi water rotating under an enclose disk to effectively clean tile and grout. The high pressure water will get deep into the pores of the grout to effectively clean the grout better than any type of scrub brush can. Also the extraction system will rinse the tile and grout to remove all of the dirty cleaning products from deep within the porous grout. The ability to extract and rinse the dirty cleaning residue from the tile and grout ensures that this type of portable cleaning system cleans tile and grout better than any type of manual tile and grout cleaning system.
High pressure portables require a lot of power and they also require an available water supply to operate. Typically high pressure portables use one 15 amp cord to power the high pressure pump and another 15 amp cord to power the vacuum and pump out system. This requires plugging two power cords into two separate outlets that are on separate breakers in the customers home. Another hose will connect water to the high pressure portable. Additionally two hoses, the high pressure water hose and the vacuum extraction hose, will connect from the high pressure portable to the tile cleaning tool. This system of hoses and connections requires a lot of attention to hose management when cleaning tile and grout in a customers home.
Due to the large volume of water being used to clean the tile and grout at 1200 psi it is impossible to heat the water using a portable tile and grout cleaning system. There are some high pressure portables that also have water heaters in them. These heating systems will not work when cleaning tile and grout due to the large volumes of water required at 1200 psi for cleaning tile and grout. These heating systems do work when cleaning carpets if this is an add on service you are interested in offering. Cleaning carpets only requires 400 psi using much less water than cleaning tile and grout. Therefore some portable tile and grout cleaners can also be used to steam clean carpets as well.
Truckmount tile and grout cleaning systems:
A truck mounted tile and grout cleaning system is the ultimate way to professionally clean tile and grout. Truckmount cleaning systems have the entire cleaning system contained in a van, box truck or trailer that sits outside of the customers home or business. Truckmount cleaning systems only require you to bring the high pressure hose and vacuum extraction hose attached to the cleaning tool into the customers home. The water for the system can be supplied from an outdoor spigot connected directly into the truckmounts cleaning system.
A big advantage of truckmount cleaning systems is that they are capable of heating the water used for cleaning the tile and grout. Hot water will provide much better cleaning results than cleaning with cold water and this is especially true when cleaning tile and grout. There are many different types of truckmount cleaning systems and the degree to which the water is heated varies with the type of truckmount purchased. Many truckmounts that are adequate for cleaning carpets will not heat the water much when running a tile and grout cleaning tool at 1200 psi. A truckmount with some type of diesel or propane burner system works much better for heating the water when cleaning tile and grout.
Specialized truckmount systems specifically designed for cleaning tile and grout can actually heat the water high enough so you are actually steam cleaning the tile and grout. Truckmount cleaning systems are extremely expensive with most costing at least $20,000. The convenience of a truckmount can not be overstated in the ability to simply bring in the cleaning tool with hoses attached and not having to hook up and plug in a high pressure portable tile and grout cleaner. The money spent on a truckmount can easily be made back in a short period of time when operating a successful tile and grout cleaning business.
There are many tile and grout cleaning business start up packages and franchises that provide you with all the necessary equipment, training and resources to quickly get you started in the tile and grout cleaning business. These types of ready made tile and grout cleaning business packages will allow you to quickly get started in the tile and grout cleaning business. Additionally these franchises and business start up packages have the resources and training systems perfected to save you from the many mistakes that can doom many new businesses.
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