[Green Clean Direct]

I'm looking at whether to use steam cleaners for shower screen and tile scum removal.

I haven't used them in the past so I don't have any experience but all my research brings is widely contrasting opinion for the same apparatus.

Any comments or experience most welcome.

[Kev Martin]

By the time you have set it up and heated it I would have done the job and be moving onto the next one.  Scum & Hard water deposits from tile & grout and shower screens just comes straight off with a little diluted Aqua Mix Phosphoric Acid Substitute (Make sure you do not have acid sensitive stone or that is affects any metal fittings of course) and the cleaning is done with some Aqua Mix Heavy Duty Tile & Grout Cleaner.  Any mould isa taken care of with LTP Mouldex

Kev Martin
Marblelife Ltd
Tiling Logistics

[Green Clean Direct]

Much appreciated Kevin but I'm keen to see whether there is a viable eco alternative. There may well not be for this and I have not found one to date but I thought some steam might be an option.

Adding steam to the product list would work ok as some wooden floors benefit from a good steam clean.

[Kev Martin]

Much appreciated Kevin but I'm keen to see whether there is a viable eco alternative. There may well not be for this and I have not found one to date but I thought some steam might be an option.

Adding steam to the product list would work ok as some wooden floors benefit from a good steam clean.

Firstly let me say without appearing rude everything I say on this or any other forum is based on solid experience from working with actual equipment.  We have a professional Polti Steam Cleaner (they use this model to clean the trains on the Metro in Paris)  It cost me over a £1K.  I bought it when we were doing deep cleans on Commercial Kitchen hoods and the like.  My opinion is that Steam Cleaners have severe limitations and the biggest bug bear I find with them is when you want them to do a decent size commercial job the tank just runs out of water exactly when you don't need it to and it then takes an age to fill it and wait for them to reach steam pressure again!  So in my opinion a smaller one would be much worse.  I might also add that I would like to drag that guy off the shopping channel with that green triangular £99 toy they call a steam cleaner and put him on a few real time cleaning projects because I personally think that thing really is a bag of S**t

Kev Martin
Tiling Logistics
Marblelife Ltd

[Jamie Pearson]

some wooden floors benefit from a good steam clean.

Be careful with that as some will also distort, delaminate, loose their lacquer or oil.

We get quite a bit of work from floors screwed up by mis-used steam mops.

[JSMC]

karcher do one which we are gonna get for the house