Stone & Tile Intensive Cleaner – Professional Deep Cleaner for Marble, Limestone, Travertine, Granite, Slate, Ceramic & Porcelain Tile – Acid-Free Concentrate (1-Qt.)

Using everybody else's reviews as a guide, I took a chance and purchased some Black Diamond Stone & Intensive Cleaner for my travertine floors. I have honed travertine with chiseled edge and wide grout lines. The floors are beautiful, but don't let anybody fool you they are a lot of work to clean. Part of the issue with natural stone is the limited cleaning products available. The chiseled edge and wide grout lines, makes it more difficult. Mostly I just steam clean the floors and use products like Bona or Formula 409 Stone and Steel Cleaner, but every now and then I do a deep clean. I started by pretreating some of the dirtiest grout lines with a long-handled scrubber and some Black Diamond solution, followed by loading my Koblenz orbital scrubber with Black Diamond solution. I've very pleased with the outcome. I have paid 2-3 times more for other cleaners and the results from Black Diamond are equally as good, if not better than those cleaners. The travertine is brightened as are the grout lines. Are the grout lines completely clean like new, no but they are pretty darn clean. Part of my issue with wide grout lines and chiseled edge is that the liquid solutions pool in the grout lines and if that liquid is dirty, well there you have it. If I could just find an orbital scrubber with extraction device, that is not priced in the thousands of dollars, I would deep clean more often. As it is, I scrubbed the floors, then used a wet/dry vac to suck up as much cleaning solution as I could. I then went back over the floors with plain water in the orbital scrubber to rinse, as it says on the directions of Black Diamond, followed by extracting the water with the wet/dry vac. I probably could have rinsed a second time as I used the cleaning solution very generously, but there are only so many hours in a day! The grout lines by the front door could probably benefit from another cleaning, as that is a high-traffic area, but they are cleaner than I have seen them in quite some time. There are a few dark spots where liquid has pooled, but that is the nature of this beast or chiseled edge tile and wide grout lines, and not a result of Black Diamond.

Left side of photo is clean and right side is dirty. My travertine floors are cleaned every week but the dirt is too much with our dogs and daily traffic to be cleaned with just the average vacuum and mop. I have an oreck orbiter which is a MUST for everyone who is OCD, owns expensive flooring, and/or owns animals who live a better lifestyle than you. I too bought the green bristled brush for the oreck and sprayed this cleaner with a lawn and garden sprayer onto the floor and then proceeded to clean with the orbiter. Because I forgot or rather blocked it from my memory, my husband claimed he had a 10:30AM tee time. After a few homicidal thoughts and counting back from 10, I did a really quick swipe of the piece of floor I just sprayed. I then had five minutes of wait time for the cleaner to sit which I used to stare at said husband with a “who the hell invented golf because I am going to make it a sole goal to haunt this person” look. After a quick wipe up and a quick dry, I assumed I would take up the chore again when my golfing husband gets back from the 19th hole. I really did not expect anything because I felt I did a very quick, poor job on the one spot. After about 4 hours of dry time, I could not believe it. The travetine and grout look great. This will be my go to when I need the deep clean but not in the mood to use the gorilla diamond polishing pads. The diamond pads are great to use to get the shine back on travertine floors. Husband is still playing golf now so I will report back if anything changes or if he doesn’t come home and need a new husband.

I purchased this because my patio (limestone) had become really dirty. I mixed some up in a spray bottle and sprayed down the areas that were the dirtiest. I waited a couple of hours and then sprayed it off with a garden hose. In all honesty, I felt that it could have done better but that night, we had torrential downpours and THAT did the trick. So my advice would be - spray this stuff down before you know you are getting a heavy rain and let the magic happen. You could use a power washer with the fanned out attachment if you have one. I'm happy with my results.

I've tried several professional stone cleaners and this is by far the best so far for my limestone flooring in my bathrooms. I really wish I would have taken before and after photos because it blew me away. I used to pay $500 to $1200 to get my tile cleaned and resealed annually. in between it would get dirty again and look like crap. I was determined to find a way to do this myself more economically. after trying different things I finally found this method that works for me. I bought the Chapin home and garden sprayer (48 ounce) and use it to spray this cleaner liberally on my bathroom floor. I leave it for 10 minutes and then I go over it with my Hoover floor mate hard floor cleaner, which I fill with only hot water, using the deepest clean setting and doing it slow and over so the scrubbers do the work. I do this a few times because the Hoover sprays more water to rinse this product off. Then I use the dry setting on the floormate to suck up all the water. I got great results on the first pass when using as directed, And then did it again leaving the cleaner on a little bit longer to 10 min and it sucked up even more dirt. It's so satisfying to pour out the dirty water into the sink both times. The first time the water was almost as dark as mud, but even the second time it was very dirty. After this the floors look better than they ever have since I moved in- It's almost like I got new floors. Also, I'm not a fan of chemicals so I open the windows and wear a 3M particle respirator as I do this. Just wanted to share my methods since I'm so glad I finally found something that works And just came back to buy two more bottles!

Satisfied with the product . Removes dirt and oil well and gives a nice feel to the feet while walking on it

Utiliser pour nettoyer un carrelage en Terrazzo extrêmement sale après la pose, le carreleur ayant été peu soigneux. Le produit est très efficace et pas agressif. Bien respecter le mode d'emploi qui est en anglais

Great product! It does not have the typical strong chemical smell you’d expect from an intense cleaner. After applying, built up dust and grime got left up in five minutes, and it’s pretty easy to wipe off

Didn't work!

Just follow the instructions on the plastic gallon , and spray the water with this liquid on the wall tiles in the shower area and use a hard stainless steel brush , you will notice immediately the tiles will be as new from the factory. Use gloves and cover the eyes with safety goggles. It's very good liquid and very effective.