Ahwatukee tile tends to be older than the Valley average, which means grout that has had thirty years to absorb everything a household puts on a floor.
Pfaff Cleaning Co. is locally owned, with the owners overseeing every job. See our full process and service area on the main tile & grout cleaning page.
Cleaning and clear seal are 15% off when you book online. Color seal and grout repair are not discounted.
Price your whole floor in about a minute with the instant quote tool. A $300 minimum applies to any visit that includes tile or stone, or $500 when it includes color sealing, once for the whole visit rather than per service.
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Saltillo is unglazed clay, so it lives or dies by its sealer. If there is old sealer on the floor, the right way to reseal it is to strip it first. Sealing over old sealer traps whatever is under it, cloudiness and yellowing included.
Strip, clean, and reseal, $4.50 a square foot with a $500 minimum. Usually two days. We strip, neutralize, and rinse on day one, and the floor dries completely before sealer goes on, since sealing damp saltillo turns it white. Day two is the sealer, in multiple coats.
Rather skip the strip? That is fine. We can deep clean it and leave it at our regular tile cleaning price, or clean it and add a fresh coat over what is there for $2.75 a square foot. It will look better and get some protection back, but it will not fix sealer that is already cloudy or yellow. Your call, no pressure either way.
We look at the floor and tell you what we see before anything starts.
Most people tell us they have 3,000 square feet. That is usually the house. The tile itself, kitchen, entry, hallways, and baths, often comes in closer to 1,000 once it is measured. Pull a tape across your kitchen and entry, add the hallways and baths, and you will have a real figure before you talk to anybody, us included.
We move what is reasonable: sofas, chairs, tables, light pieces. We do not move anything with breakables on it or in it, china cabinets, curio cabinets, electronics, or glass tops, and we do not move beds. If we are shuffling a lot of furniture through the house, expect the top end of your range rather than the bottom. Clear what you can off the floor beforehand and it comes in lower.
We carry commercial air movers, Dri-Pod 360s and a low-profile Syclone, and if you want one running before we go, ask and we will set it up. It jump starts the drying rather than leaving the room to do it on its own.
The rest is airflow. Open a window, run the ceiling fan, kick the HVAC fan on, and the room dries a lot faster than a closed-up room with nothing moving. We will tell you what to expect for your place before we leave.
Backsplash cleaning behind a stove is grease and cooking film in the grout, not floor soil, so it takes a degreaser and hand work. Shower walls are soap film and hard water instead.
People call this different things. Grout restoration, grout restoring, tile maintenance, grout maintenance, tile restoration. It usually means one of three jobs: a deep clean that brings the original color back, a grout sealing treatment that keeps it that way, or grout recoloring, sometimes called grout replacement or regrouting, when the color is gone for good and you want a new one.
We do all three in Ahwatukee, and we will tell you on the phone which one your floor actually needs.
We clean, seal, and repair grout, not tile. We do not replace, repair, or remove tile. If a tile is cracked or loose, we tell you before we start, since that is a tile contractor job.
Dark grout is not a sign you are a slob. It is a sign you have a floor. Grout is porous, and in a hard water town like ours it stains no matter how often you clean. We have walked into houses that get scrubbed weekly and the grout still looks bad, because scrubbing was never going to win that fight.
You do not have to apologize for it or clean before we come. Just show us the worst room.
Mopping pushes dirty water into the grout line, so the floor looks clean and the grout keeps getting darker. Grout that is dark in traffic paths and lighter at the edges is soil. Grout that is blotchy everywhere, or lighter in some rooms than others, is usually staining that soaked in before anything was ever sealed.
If your grout cleans up and still does not look right, that is the point where color sealing in Ahwatukee is the actual answer instead of another cleaning.
Ceramic, porcelain, saltillo, slate, and most hard surfaces. Tile cleaning, grout cleaning, clear grout sealing, grout color sealing, grout repair, shower tile cleaning, hard water buildup removal, and commercial and office tile floors.
Have natural stone floors too? Travertine, marble, and limestone take different products and a different process. See natural stone cleaning and sealing.
Dark or stained grout lines. Floors that look dirty right after mopping. Heavy buildup along kitchen cabinet bases. Soap scum and hard water deposits in showers. Traffic lanes visibly darker than the rest of the room. Cracked or missing grout in high traffic areas.
Appointment length depends on the square footage and the condition of the grout. No need to move furniture off the tile beforehand. Moving it is part of the service, apart from oversized sectionals, pianos, and anything with breakables on or inside it.
Clear sealing keeps your existing grout color and adds a barrier so liquids bead up instead of soaking in. Color sealing puts a uniform, color-matched coating on the grout line, covering permanent discoloration, with over 40 color options.
Grout repair handles cracked, loose, or missing grout, which has to be addressed before sealing since sealer will not hold over crumbling material.
Showers are the toughest surface we work on. A deep clean gets your shower as clean as it will get. Where cleaning has limits is grout that is stained, uneven, or worn down, and color sealing is what fixes that. Calcium bonds into grout and tile and some of it does not come off, and we will not take a blade or harsh acid to chase the rest, because that leaves etched tile and eaten grout behind.
How long it lasts is not something we can guarantee in a shower. Some cleanings and color seals hold up for years and some fail quickly, and a short life does not mean the work was done wrong. Water, soap, and calcium work on shower grout every day, and ventilation, the cleaners used, and moisture behind the tile are out of our control. Running the exhaust fan during and after showers and squeegeeing the walls help it last.
Send a photo with the button below for a rough range. When you are ready, we come out to match the color, then order your material before we schedule. The 25% deposit is collected at that walkthrough and covers the material.
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Forty cents a square foot gets forty cents of effort. We take our time, and it shows in the grout.
We get called after the rushed ones. The job got hurried, residue is still sitting in the grout lines, and the company that did it will not come back to fix it.
A mop, even a good one, moves dirty water around the grout line. That is the whole problem with tile: the tile face cleans easily and the grout is a porous channel sitting below it, collecting everything the mop pushes off the surface.
The cheap number is a spray and a squeegee pass, and the grout is dark again inside a month because nothing came out of the line. What $0.85 online buys, $1 at the regular rate, is alkaline cleaner with dwell time to break the soil loose, agitation down in the line, then pressure and extraction to pull it out. That is why the grout comes back a few shades and stays there.
And we tell you when it will not. Grout that is stained rather than soiled does not clean back to new at any price, and color sealing is the honest answer for that instead of another cleaning.
Grout is porous, and time is the factor nobody can undo. A floor laid in 1985 and mopped ever since has soil below the surface that no amount of additional mopping reaches, which is why homeowners here often tell us the floor looks the same no matter what they try.
Foothill homes along South Mountain also take a heavier fine-dust load than homes in the middle of a subdivision, and that grit is abrasive, working into grout lines every time someone walks across the entry.
On grout this old, cleaning usually recovers a great deal but rarely returns it to uniform color. We would rather show you that during the walkthrough and talk about color sealing than clean it twice and have you disappointed both times.
We clean down in the grout line, not just across the tile.
Since December 2024, every job Pfaff Cleaning Co. has taken on has been handled by our own team. 500+ jobs later, we are still at a 5.0 on Google.
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Yes, for homes and commercial properties throughout Ahwatukee and the surrounding Valley.
Most homes do well every 12 to 18 months, sooner in kitchens and entryways.
Many improve significantly. Some permanent discoloration remains, and in those cases grout color sealing is the fix.
Yes. Damaged grout has to be addressed before sealing, since sealer will not hold over cracked or crumbling material. From $150.
Yes, but as a separate service, since stone takes different products and the wrong cleaner etches it permanently. See natural stone cleaning and sealing.
Light and moderate deposits come off. Heavy buildup that has bonded into grout and tile may not come off at all, and we will not use razor blades or harsh acids to chase it.
Yes, and both are quoted from a photo. Send a photo with the button below for a rough range first.
From $0.85/sqft online, or $1 regular. Clear seal is $1.50/sqft, color seal is $2.50 to $3.25/sqft and not discounted. A $300 minimum applies to any visit that includes tile or stone, or $500 when it includes color sealing, once for the whole visit rather than per service.
Not at this time. We clean and repair the tile, stone, and grout around it. For hard water on shower glass, we suggest Bio-Clean Hard Water Stain Remover. It is non-acidic, so it will not etch the stone and grout around your glass the way most acid-based removers can. Test a small corner first, especially if your glass has a protective coating.
We do not guarantee how long it lasts in a shower. Some hold up for years and some fail quickly, and a short life does not mean the work was done wrong. Showers take water, soap, and calcium every day, and things like ventilation, the cleaners used, and moisture behind the tile are out of our control. Running the exhaust fan during and after showers and squeegeeing the walls help it last.