Life Hack: Three foolproof ways to clean and refresh your bathroom grout

A common complaint in many homes, grimy grout can make even the cleanest bathroom look grubby. Here are three tried and tested ways to get your grout to look great again.

Grubby grout will be gone thanks to these three cleaning tips. Picture: iStock

Baking soda and vinegar 

The classic combo of baking soda/sodium bicarbonate and vinegar works a treat on tired tiles. Make a paste with the baking soda mixed with some water, with two thirds of the mix being baking soda and water making up the final third. Mix it together until it forms a paste and grab an old toothbrush. Use the toothbrush to rub the paste onto the dirty grout, giving it a scrub where the staining or discolouration is more prevalent. If you find it too difficult to manually scrub with a brush you can find electric scrubbers, which look like oversized electric toothbrushes, in some shops and supermarkets or you could use an old electric toothbrush instead. Next, fill a spray bottle with white vinegar and spray this onto the grout where you have applied the paste. When it makes contact with the sodium bicarbonate the mixture will start to bubble and fizz. You can use the toothbrush or any stiff-bristled cleaning brush to scrub away the mixture from the grout. Finally, rise with water.