I’m a housekeeper – I never recommend a particular type of flooring, it’s popular but SO hard to clean
THERE’S no doubt that housekeepers have the best tips when it comes to cleaning your home.
Housekeepers tend to be full of helpful tricks of the trade, as is the case with Vanesa Amaro.
Amaro is a housekeeper-turned cleanfluencer who boasts over 5 million followers on TikTok.
In a video, she shared an expert tip on the flooring material you should avoid at all costs if you want a clean home.
She said: “Materials for your house I would never, ever recommend as a housekeeper – penny tiles for your shower.
“Just don’t do it!”
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First, Amaro said that penny tile floors are a bit painful to walk on.
She then added: “Second, there’s so much grout, therefore it’s hard to keep clean.”
Amaro appears to be cleaning a penny tile floor in the video with a scrub brush and revealed Zep Grout Cleaner as the best cleaner to tackle the job in the comments.
Others also took to the comments section to express their frustration over the trendy floor.
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One wrote: “I think it’s painful to step on if the grout is too low, it needs to be level with the tile or it pinches.”
Another added: “YES had this in my last house and it was a nightmare to clean.”
“Literally this. My last rental had white penny tile and WHITE grout.
“Keeping it clean was a full-time job,” a third comment read.
Someone else commented:” Agree. Did my bathroom floor to ceiling in them!
“Looks beautiful but such a pain!”
If you’re looking for a solution for hard-to-clean flooring, Mrs. Hinch fans have shared a miracle product for cleaning tile grout – it’s so easy and takes minutes.
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