Friday, January 23, 2009

Calling For Grout

By William Borris

Cleaning has always been problematic for me. While I fully understand, and in fact appreciate, the comforts of a clean home, I am firm in my belief that house cleaning is something that I shouldn't do when I'm working six days a week to put food on the table.

So then, maybe karma led me into this predicament. You see, I find myself cleaning the bathroom twice a month. As much as I hate cleaning, I don't want to see my wife kneeling down amidst all that muck and grime. So whenever she feels like cleaning the bathrooms, I go ahead of her and get the cleaning done myself.

And so I find myself at a constant war with grout. The floor tiles themselves are hard enough to clean, but add to that the complexity of the cement between the tiles, and i find myself losing. Only the smallest toothbrush can even get to them, and as if the ground absorbs the dirt inside it, I just can't seem to completely remove it.

I still do it, though, stubborn as I am. I clean, scrub, and wash the grout twice a month and until I get them cleaner than normal, or at least halfway decent. But the perfectionist in me would not rest. I could never clean it as well I as I wanted. I hate cleaning, and I can't seem to get the job done to my satisfaction.

I give up. No more cleaning the dirty-beyond-hope bathroom floor, because in the end, frustration just gets the better of me. But, as I've said, I really want to keep the house as clean and hygienic as I want. So I looked around and found a professional grout cleaner. Who knew they'd be on the first page of a search engine's results? I talked to my wife and persuaded her to have them look at it.

Hopefully they'll do a better job than I did. - 16732

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