How to Clean and Maintain Black Floor Tiles?

                                        

In recent years, the popularity of black tiles has been much beyond our imagination. Black tiles are extensively applied in different fields as a heatwave, such as home decoration, hotels, fancy restaurants, luxury stores, etc. Black tiles are popular not only among plain people but also Hollywood stars’ enthusiasm for black tiles is reaching the highest point ever in decorating their houses. 

 

Why Are Black tiles So Popular?

Different types of black tiles express the user’s particular taste and style. Either looking for ornamental or pursuing conciseness, customers could find what they need in various designs of black tiles. In addition, since black is known as an easy matching color, black tiles could be a perfect match with almost any type of constructive materials in any color. Commonly, black tiles could impress people with calm, peace, harmony, decency and dignity. The specific style and design could vary through matching black tiles with warm colors or cool colors in the house. 

                                         

 

Moreover, black tiles are not merely in one single color, but the line, the pigment, the shade and the pattern of black tiles are all elements that decide the visual effect and sense of gradations. Black titles are concise but not simply because different types of black tiles express significant function, artistic sense and connotation. 

 

Techniques in Cleaning Black Tiles

 

Some stains on black tiles may be hard to be removed, such as oil stain, dying stain, ink stain, coffee stain, and so on. Specific stains require particular techniques to clean up. The followings are some effective ways to clean black tiles. 

 

1. Dust or damp: Dish soap and solid soap are both effective for daily cleaning. 

2. Oil stain: Covering black tiles with some flour on the oil stain. Wait until the flour absorbing most of the oil, then clean black tiles with cleaning solvent. 

3. Tea, coffee, ice cream and beer stains: to remove stains that are insoluble in water, you can clean up black tiles with sodium hydroxide or Potassium bicarbonate solution. 

4. Ink and cement: hydrochloric acid, nitric acid or a similar dilute solution could be helpful to remove firm smudge left from the dense and sticky liquid. 

5. Paint and coating material: turpentine is the best solution to remove paint, as well as a solution of borax or aqueous ammonia for removing colorant smudge. 

6. Rust: 2% of Oxalic acid solution could be applied to clean up black tiles for rust, then wash up the acid solution with water. 

 

Please store all cleaning solvents and solutions where children are not reachable; also, steer clear of children while in the application. Remember to wash your hands after cleaning up. 

 

Ways to Maintain Black Tiles

 

For service life extension, several methods should be known to maintain black tiles well enough.

1. Waxing is commonly considered as a regular way to maintain polished finish black tiles to keep glossy and shiny. The frequency of this action should be no longer than three months. 

2. For mold prevention, the chink between two black tiles should be cleaned with decontamination cream, especially in rainy seasons. 

3. Under a dry climate, slight watering but not splashing water widely on black tiles is necessary to prevent crazing.

4. Please do not step on black tiles during the first 24 hours after paving. 

For more information about cleaning and maintaining black tiles, please feel free to contact us at fspowell@fspowell.com any time. Thank you!