About Grout Warriors

Family History

Our family has come from a long line of flooring specialists.  Louie’s grandfather laid tile and carpet from his teenage years and started a company in the mid 1960s, with several crews who installed tile and carpet. 

Louie and Tina Biegler

Over the last 6 years, we have worked in the real estate arena, restoring historical homes and maintaining real estate owned (REO) properties.

While restoring homes, we attempted to save flooring wherever we could, but oftentimes had to replace.  In order to put the most money into the product and save on the labor, we both learned to lay tile.  These homes sold for $250,000 to $1,200,000.

Then we began to work on REO properties, where we spent numerous hours and a ton of money to clean up abandoned or bank owned homes; in all cases the floors were disgusting.

We faced our greatest challenge cleaning and maintaining the health and safety of the floors.  We tried numerous methods to clean and restore flooring to its original luster.  First, we started with a mop and bucket using industrial cleaning supplies but there was no heat to sanitize and the dirt just moved from the tile to the grout.  Our next trial was using bleach, but it removed the white coloring and left the grout splotchy and gray. 

Undaunted, we visited home improvement warehouse stores where they advised us to use products that surface cleaned the floors but did not sanitize (no heat) and were not appropriate chemicals for the some areas of the house (like kitchens).  We even tried our carpet cleaning machine to provide heat needed to sanitize but it did not get hot enough and actually created bacteria.

After a long search on the internet, we discovered a very specialized machine mounted in a trailer, designed specifically for cleaning hard surfaces like tile and grout.  Heating up to 230 degrees, the machine tackles the healthy and safety concerns we hadn’t been able to address previously.  Even better, the machine restored the look of the tile better than any other product we used!  We purchased the machine and attended the factory training program becoming certified by the Hard Surface Maintenance Professionals Association (HSMPA) to use the machine.