Grout color sealing for Tempe homes and rentals. $2.50 to $3.25/sqft on tile, includes the cleaning.
Pfaff Cleaning Co. is locally owned, with the owners overseeing every job. See our full process and service area on the main grout color sealing page.
Color sealing includes the cleaning. You are not paying for a cleaning and then a seal on top.
A 25% deposit is collected at the color match visit and covers your material, since the color is ordered for your job. Price it in about a minute with the instant quote tool.
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People call this five different things and mean one of two. Grout recoloring, grout staining, grout color restoration and grout color sealing are the same service. A pigmented sealer goes on by hand, the grout comes out one uniform color, and the line is sealed at the same time.
Grout sealing, grout protection and grout maintenance usually mean a clear sealer, which is a different and cheaper job. A clear seal keeps the color you have and slows the next stain. It will not change a line that is already stained, and anybody telling you it will is selling you the wrong product.
Which one you need comes down to one question: is your grout dirty or is it stained? Dirty cleans back several shades and a clear seal holds it there. Stained does not clean back at any price, and color sealing is the honest answer. We tell you which you have before you pay for either.
Color sealing is grout-line work, so the amount of grout line is the job. Standard 12x12 tile sits at the low end. Smaller tile like 6x18 or a mosaic has close to double the grout line in the same square footage, which is double the hand sealing and wiping, so it lands higher. Moving furniture is part of the service and does not push the price up. Your price never goes above the top of the range unless the scope changes on site and you agree to it first.
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.
Cleaning gets grout back to its real color. Color sealing decides what that color is.
It is a pigmented coating bonded into the grout line after a deep cleaning. It covers staining that cleaning cannot lift, evens out grout that has gone blotchy, and seals the line at the same time so spills sit on top instead of soaking in.
People who care how their house looks end up here, and we do not blame them. This is the one service where the room looks different when we leave, not just cleaner. Most people are surprised by the before and after on their own floor.
Do not DIY this one. The kits fail constantly, almost always because the grout was not cleaned properly first. Color seal bonds to clean grout. Over soil, soap residue, or an old sealer it peels or wears off in traffic lanes within months, and stripping failed color seal costs more than the original job. This is specialty work with a real prep stage and a product that is not on the hardware store shelf.
Grout renewal, grout restoration, grout recoloring, color sealing. Different names for the same service: a pigmented sealer bonded into a cleaned grout line that changes the color and seals it at once. If you searched grout restoration in Tempe or grout renewal near you, this is it.
Color sealing is built to last years on a floor under normal use, and it is guaranteed for one year against peeling, flaking, or lifting. It does not cover normal wear in traffic paths, acidic or abrasive cleaners, steam mop damage, or new cracks in the grout. Showers are not guaranteed.
The first 7 days decide everything. The sealer dries fast and you can walk on it the same day, but it cures for a full week. During those 7 days: no shoes in the house, socks or house shoes only, and do not clean the floor at all. Sweep or dry dust mop if you need to. After that, live on it. A sealed floor is not delicate, it is the opposite: spills stop soaking in, so wipe up messes when they happen and the grout stays the color we left it. Just do not flood the floor with water and do not scrub the grout hard, since both wear the seal through early.
Do not steam mop a color sealed floor. Steam drives heat and moisture into the grout line and breaks the bond down, and it is the fastest way to ruin work you paid for. We recommend a neutral pH floor cleaner, Zep is what we use, with an H2O Pro flat mop system and clean pads. A string mop just pushes dirty water back into the grout.
It is not paint, and it is not a coating over your tile. The tile face stays exactly as it is. It is also not a repair. Cracked, crumbling, or missing grout has to be repaired first, and we will tell you if that is what you are looking at.
On showers we do color seal, but we do not guarantee it. Water, soap, and ventilation are out of our control, and a short life on a shower does not mean the work was done wrong.
Rentals take the worst of it, and landlords get tired of paying to clean grout that never looks clean. Color sealing resets it once instead of fighting it every turnover.
The easiest time is an empty unit between tenants, when cure time does not inconvenience anybody.
40+ colors, matched in your own light, guaranteed a year on floors.
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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$2.50 to $3.25 per square foot on tile floors, which includes the deep cleaning first. Natural stone runs $2.75 per square foot because stone grout takes more prep and a different product. Color sealing is not discounted online.
Your color gets ordered for your job after we match it in person, so a 25% deposit is collected at that color match visit and covers the material.
Usually, yes. We match in your light rather than off a chart, since tile reads differently under different lighting. We also have 40+ colors if you would rather change it entirely, and pinks, blues, and anything unusual available on request.
No. Some people call it grout painting, but it is a pigmented sealer bonded into the grout line after cleaning. The tile face is untouched, and it seals at the same time so spills sit on top instead of soaking in.
On floors, years. On showers we do not guarantee it, because water, soap, and ventilation are out of our control, and a short life on a shower does not mean the work was done wrong.
That is a repair, not a sealing job. Grout repair runs $150 to $950 depending on how many areas, and it has to happen before any color goes down. We will tell you which one you are actually looking at.