If you want to know how to clean ceramic tile, the best thing for you to know is what type of ceramic tile grout cleaners you should use.  There are literally hundreds of different possible cleaners out there.  People recommend crazy things like laundry detergent and toilet bowl cleaner, but I prefer to stick with grout cleaner for cleaning tile and grout.

Two of the best cleaners that you can use are Soft Scrub with bleach and Kaboom.  When you buy these cleaners, you want to make sure to wait a few minutes for them to be able to disinfect and loosen up the dirt.  Then, with a brush, you should scrub the grout lines until you get rid of all of the stains and restore the grout back to its original color.  Make sure that you are cleaning grout between tiles as you go. Make sure that the stain is completely gone before you rinse and dry off your tile.

Another alternative to cleaning tile by hand is to clean tile using a steam cleaner and the right attachment for cleaning tile and grout.  With a steamer, you save time because you spray and scrub, and rinse and dry, all of the same time.  Also, the spray penetrates deeper into the surface of the grout and does a fairly good job at removing the stain quickly.  Generally it is two or three times faster to clean with a steam cleaner than it is to clean with a scrub brush and a grout cleaner. Also, when you use a steam cleaner, you don’t have to use a ceramic tile grout cleaner, because the steam cleaner uses pressurized water vapor to clean with.  It is so hot that it also kills pathogens and bacteria at the same time that it cleans.  When you use a steam cleaner, start in the most stained section and then work your way to the areas that are not badly stained.