Cleaning Tile Kitchen Counters

After having read all the tips and advise on sealing tile and grout, I'm pretty clear how to clean, maintain, and protect my new bathrooms. Each bathroom is now, or will be, tiled.

Unlike the bathrooms, the new kitchen tile, which is drying as I write, will be used endlessly. Sometimes my counters are whipped down a dozen or more times a day. In the past, I've simply cleaned my counters with soap and water, using the same product as I use for hand cleaning the dishes, and then following up with an antibacterial whip. What now would be the best approach or products to use for this type of continuous cleaning up without hurting the new porclean tiles and Hydromount dry tile grout?

By the way, this site has been a wonderful find for me. I've been reading and reading and learning so much. What a helpful experience.

Thank you for sharing.
BJW

p.s. What's "post a poll" mean?

Check out the forum over at John Bridge for tile info!
A poll is like a suvey. You could say, "Which product do I wipe my counters with?"

Options for Product A, Product B, Product C and let them vote and see the rankings.

The secret for kitchen counter tops is to seal the grout. Get a top quality sealer from someone like TileLab, and redo the sealer twice a year.

jimbo said:

The secret for kitchen counter tops is to seal the grout. Get a top quality sealer from someone like TileLab, and redo the sealer twice a year.

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Jason

If you want to go for the extra expense, you can use an epoxy grout. Then, no sealers are used (unless the tile is porous like some stones). These are often specified in commercial kitchens and can take the abuse. They don't typically stain, either.

If you use a cement based product, you would want to use a ph neutral tile cleaning product. Repeated use of acidic products will play hell with the sealer and actually (eventually) start to eat away the cement in the grout. As noted, a really good resource on tiling questions is www.johnbridge.com