Black Diamond Stoneworks 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.

This worked great for my dirty porcelain floors. I mixed it in a spray bottle, sprayed on the flooring by sections so it wouldn’t dry before cleaning and used my steamer to clean after letting set for 3 minutes. Then ran the mop over it twice. Yes, i had to do it in sections, and it was a little labor intensive but that didn’t bother me. Good results. I will give it five stars if they would come up with a non foaming formula. Would buy again.

I recently moved into a home with Terrazo floors - beautiful - except for all the grim!! Yuck!! I had used simple green, greased lightning, and I still had to wear shoes inside (my feet literally turned black) disgusting!! So I started to search for a better cleaner - and I found this stone and tile cleaner - after reading the positive reviews - I bought it! Let me just say - I am absolutely amazed!!! I poured this cleaner into a bucket of hot water, mopped my floors with a microfiber mop, and wiped dry with a WHITE towel!! The grim and dirt was gone!! It was like magic! And while the cleaner says not to put on painted surfaces, I did touch my painted baseboards BUT nothing happened; now I did not intentionally do this, but my mop did touch them - but again nothing happened, all painted surfaces are fine - but I would recommend following the directions and warnings as they are there for a reason!! I am just so happy that I can walk around my floors and feel clean!! Thank you for a great cleaning product that actually does what it's supposed too - CLEAN! :) I am a very satisfied customer!! I took a before and after photo with a wet paper towel... look at the difference - just Amazing!! :) thank you!

i am so surprised with +ve reviews. This doesn't work at all. My floor is not that dirty. it does nothing despite of using electric brush to clean the floor, just soapy water.

Still on the hunt for a good marble cleaner to remove some orange from the tile and grout. I think this got a little out, but the orange is still visible. Easy to use, and would be good for general cleaning, but didn’t quite do what I needed.

This product works very well.

Mixed a small batch to use to clean grout around travertine stone. I called the company to get the exact measurement needed as the directions on the bottle are for 1 gallon. They were very helpful. I used it in the kitchen and we could tell a difference. Now to do family room and laundry room. If I don't give out- I will then do the bedroom. It did help the grout looked better. I am going to redo kitchen also. It is hard to be on your knees scrubbing , but I can see a difference. It does dry quickly, I let it sit about 15 minutes perfection then wet with water and scrubbed with a brush.