This past weekend Mike spent scraping grout out of tile...It was the 4th weekend in a row like that....After repeatedly complaining on the phone to our tile guy, he called the manufacturer and they suggested a strong acid based tile cleaner and a soft steel brush, it helped a lot, but it still look over 60 hours to scrape the thousands of textured tiles in the house. (We broke the dental tools and moved on to Exacto knives.) Oh well, live and learn, there is a reason one seldom sees textured glass tile, it is a GIANT pain to set and clean.
The link below takes one to the manufacturer website to see what this tile is supposed to look like. We discovered that the tile appears to come with a number of scratches already embedded in the grooves...nice....Although we no longer have any grout on our tiles, we do have thousands of deep and obvious scratches.....We're going to see if using something like Lemon oil makes the scratches look less visible.
http://www.crossvilleinc.com/products_color.cfm?SeriesID=38&TileID=868&ref=products
Shown above is our tile after Mike acid scrubbed it twice. All of the white streaks on the tiles in this photo were filled with grout and were eventually scraped out...
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