What's your process for pulling Uric Acid/Smell out of tiles and grout in Commercial Setting?
I manage a commercial property in Japan. Our Bathrooms are tiled with a drain. In my opinion the bathrooms smell badly like urine, despite the cleaners who are contracted mopping daily.
The cleaning company's management is saying the smell is from the drains and nothing can be done, but when I talked to the cleaning staff the say they haven't done anything but mopping and that a deep clean hasn't been done for a long time. I feel i'm being given the run-around by their management.
Edit: The cleaning company does have another contractor come out and use the srubby machine once a month. Is that enough for a bathroom that gets 100-200 users a day?
I'd like to take things into my own hands and do a deep cleaning of the floors as i'm positve the urine is soaked into the grout and tiles, and all the mopping is doing is smearing it around at this point.
Here is the general advice I've gotten from Youtube, but I'd like some second opinions.
- Using a sprayer applying a diluted acid based cleaner (with rust inhibitors) to the tiles and grout to break down the surface layer of scale. Rinse after 15 ish minutes.
- Apply an enzymatic cleaner and agitate with a rotational brush. Rinse.
- Change from bleach based detergent to enzymatic for daily cleaning.
Is this something you would recommend to get rid of the smell long term? I'm interested in hearing other processes from professionals. And what products you could recommend to me. Thanks.