Sunday, January 18, 2009

Grumpy About Grout

By William Borris

I never liked cleaning. Although don't get me wrong: I like my house spic-and-span. I just really don't want to be the one doing the cleaning. Why should I be stuck doing house cleaning if I work six days a week to put food in my family's mouths?

Now I'm in this predicament. I blame karma. I find myself cleaning the bathroom almost twiced a month. As much as I find cleaning the bathroom irritating and disgusting, I really don't want to have my wife kneel down on that muck and grim. So whenever it's high time to clean up the bathroom, I go in ahead and get the job 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.

So in the end, I do my best. I scrub and scrub at the tiles and grout, and while the tiles end up sparkly clean, I am never satisfied with the space in between. Perhaps it's the perfectionist in me (which is what makes me a good do-it-yourself person): I hated cleaning, and now I hated how I could not clean the floor well.

So that's it. I gave up. No more cleaning the impossible to clean bathroom anymore, because I just end up being really frustrated. But as I said, I believe in keeping the house clean. So I looked for anyone who cleans grout professionally. And what do you know? There they are, right in the first page of the search engine's results.

Here's to hoping they do a better job at it. - 16492

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