SURFACE CARE / TILE & GROUT

Commercial Tile & Grout Cleaning & Restoration

Mopped every night. Still not clean. That isn't a cleaning failure, it's porous grout doing what grout does. Before you replace it, let us show you what a deep restorative clean brings back.

Available as a one-time refresh or an ongoing program.

40+ YEARS  ·  IICRC-TRAINED  ·  THOUSANDS OF TILED FLOORS RESTORED

BEFORE AFTER

Same tile. Same grout. Recolored, sealed and protected.

WHY IT NEVER LOOKS CLEAN

Grout is porous. That’s the whole problem.

Every tiled floor in your building has the same weak point, and it isn’t the tile. Lobby porcelain, break room ceramic, kitchen quarry tile, locker room mosaic. Tile sheds most of what lands on it. The grout between it takes it in. The floor is technically clean, but it doesn't look clean and it may not smell clean, and no amount of mopping changes that. That isn't a janitorial performance problem. It's a material one, and it has a name.

UNIFORMLY DIRTY.

Nothing looks dirty. Nothing looks clean either. Every tiled floor in the building settles to the same baseline, and most buildings stay there for years until a tenant says something.

Cutaway of a tiled floor showing mop water running off the tile into the lower grout line, where it soaks into the grout.

Why your grout keeps getting darker.

Mopping cleans the tile. The grout catches what's left.

  • Every grout line sits a little below the tile around it
  • Mop water, soil and cleanser run downhill into that low point
  • The mop glides over the valley and can’t pull it back out
  • Grout is porous, so what’s left soaks in
  • It darkens a little more with every pass
  • Then it holds odor, and bacteria hide in it

Porous grout + the low point + mop water = gray grout no mop can reach.

Want proof in your own building? Find a spot where the tile runs up the wall: a restroom, a kitchen, a locker room. If the bottom two or three inches of wall grout are darker than the grout above them, that’s mop water hitting the wall edge and soaking in, night after night. No tiled walls? Compare the grout in your main walkway to the grout under a desk or behind a door.

Wall grout darkened along the bottom two inches where mop water hits the wall edge.

Same problem. Every tiled space.

Restroom tile with stained grout before restoration and recolored, sealed grout after
Restrooms
Quarry tile in a commercial kitchen before and after deep scrub, acid wash and grout recolor
Commercial kitchens
Dark discolored lobby grout before and after deep cleaning, recoloring and coating
Bank lobbies
Corridor tile before and after restoration, with grout recolored and sealed
Corridors & break rooms
TRIGGER MOMENTS

Is it time for a refresh?

  • A replacement quote for tile is sitting on your desk.
  • Restrooms look and smell dirty within hours of being cleaned.
  • Grout has gone gray, dark or blotchy, and mopping doesn’t change it.
  • A tenant, executive or customer has commented on the restroom tile.
  • Wet tile in restrooms, showers, locker rooms or kitchens is a slip concern.
  • An infection control or EVS audit flagged unsealed grout.
  • A big event, inspection or corporate visit is on the calendar.
  • A remodel or new lease where the tile is staying and needs to look like it.
  • It no longer meets your standard, even if no one has said so.
The difference

Daily cleaning maintains the surface. Deep cleaning restores it.

Your Daily Janitorial Team

Does a great job within a defined scope, but with limited time, staff, training, and budget to go beyond the basics. In a single hour, the crew may need to:

  • Cover 5,000 to 8,000 square feet
  • Empty trash and damp-mop floors
  • Spot clean and dust
  • Vacuum primary hallways and offices
  • Mop and restock restrooms

There isn’t room in that hour for restorative work. Add it to their scope and it queues behind the daily tasks, often late, sometimes not at all.

Our Deep Cleaning Model

Comes in periodically with one job to do. Surface-specific expertise, chemistry, and IICRC-certified protocols that daily cleaning crews don’t have. On a single visit, we may:

  • Deep scrub and acid wash the tile and grout
  • Pull years of soil and residue out of the grout lines
  • Recolor grout to one consistent shade
  • Apply a CareGuard coating that seals the grout
  • Hand your crew a floor that’s faster to keep clean

We’re not replacing your crew. We’re handing them a floor that finally stays clean between visits.

Different expertise for different outcomes.

We’re Better Together.

THE PROOF

One restroom demo. Fifty restored. None replaced.

A national oil and gas firm had restroom grout that would not come clean. Their janitorial team and a dedicated floor crew had both tried, and the grout didn’t change, because the problem was below where a mop or a scrubber can reach.

We restored one restroom as a demo. Staff on other floors started asking, “Do ours next.” It became more than fifty restrooms, fully restored, each one back in service in about eight hours, with zero flooring replaced.

50+

Restrooms restored

0

Floors replaced

8 hrs

Downtime per restroom

$1M+

Saved vs. replacement

“Once the client laid his eyes on the demo floor, he was all in. Our tile and grout look brand new.” — Director of Facility Operations

“The restrooms are much easier and faster to clean now.” — Housekeeper

HOW IT WORKS

Deep clean. Recolor. Protect.

Before
Restroom tile with dark, stained grout lines before restoration
Deep clean
Deep scrub and acid wash in progress on restroom tile
Recolor grout
Restroom tile after cleaning, grout prepped and recolored
Sealed & protected
Restored restroom tile with sealed, protected grout
TRY IT

See it before you commit.

Pick one tiled area, break room, restroom, your choice. We restore it, you judge it. Defined scope, transparent price, no obligation beyond that one job.

RESTORE IT + PROTECT IT

Skip the replacement.

Deep clean, recolor the grout, then seal and protect it with a CareGuard coating. Across every tiled floor in scope. One project, one invoice, no program required.

MAINTAIN IT

Take it off your plate.

We come back on a cadence set by your traffic patterns. We deep clean and renew the coating as needed. Your floor stays beautiful and protected.

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

What we’ll tell you honestly.

Tile lasts for decades. The coating is the wear layer, and how long it holds depends on traffic and the chemistry used on it day to day. We’ll tell you what to expect for your space, not a number from a brochure. And if we spot a problem developing outside our scope, you’ll hear about it, whether or not there’s work in it for us.

After restoring and maintaining millions of square feet of tile, we know what comes back and what doesn’t. Most of it comes back. Chipped or cracked tile can usually be repaired or matched. When a floor genuinely needs replacing, you’ll hear it from us before we start, not after.

WHY CORPORATE CARE

Forty years in business. Our technicians average twelve.

Corporate Care has been restoring commercial surfaces since 1984.
Family owned, woman-owned, serving buildings across the United States and Canada.

40+

Years in Business

Since 1984. Organically grown. No venture capital, no private equity.

IICRC

Instructor On Staff

We don't send our people to someone else's class. We run the class.

85%

Safer Than Industry Average

A recordable incident rate 85 percent or more below the industry average.

12+

Year Avg. Tenure

The same technicians come back to your building. Day one quality on day 1,000.

WBENC

Woman-Owned

Certified Women's Business Enterprise. Counts toward Fortune 1000 diversity spend.

US + CAN

National Coverage

One point of contact for every surface in every building in your portfolio.

NEXT STEP

Let’s look at your tile.

Book a complimentary assessment. We’ll walk the building, look for buildup on the tile, and check whether the grout sealant is still in good shape. Then we’ll come back with a recommendation to improve your tile’s appearance, along with a price. One restroom or a whole building.

Or call the 24/7 facility support hotline: (800) 728-8508

Frequently asked tile & grout questions.