One of the most helpful grout cleaning tips that I can give is to do some of your grout cleaning in the shower. You spend between ten and twenty minutes in the shower everyday anyway, so why not spend a few more minutes and have your shower grout stay clean. People say that the best way to get your grout clean is to not let it get dirty in the first place. A little bit of daily maintenance will make this happen. Here is how I do it:

My first step was to divide my shower area into five sections. Each section is small enough that it only take me about five to ten minutes to scrub the grout in that area. Each morning before I take my shower, I work on cleaning that section of the shower tile and grout. Then, when I am done I just get into the shower and rinse my work and myself. There are two main benefits of cleaning your dirty grout this way.

First, if you have ever worked with bathroom cleaners and many cleaning chemicals in general you know that they do not smell great. If you do your cleaning immediately before you take a shower then you will smell fresh all day even though you used chemicals at the beginning of it. Second, doing a little bit of work every day will make sure that the task never gets overwhelming so that you put it off. Five or ten minutes of work is nothing.

You will notice that this cleaning schedule only has enough work for five days. I would assume that you shower every day rather than just five time a week. The reason I have built in a two day buffer is because things come up. What if you over sleep one day or you are away from home for a night? The two extra days give you some flexibility.

Now, you will notice that this plan only accounts for the tile grout in the shower. You might be wondering why I worry about that area so much and when I clean the rest of my bathroom tile grout. Well, the shower is a damp and warm area that does not get much air flow because often we close the shower door or leave the shower curtain closed. This kind of environment is the perfect place for mold and mildew to thrive. You really need to keep on top of the grout in your shower because it could get quite black in no time. The rest of the grout in the bathroom does not get as dirty so we do not have to worry about cleaning it on a daily basis. I use those two extra days that I give myself every week to try and work in a cleaning time for the rest of the bathroom grout at least once a month.