Product Overview
Actichem Tile & Grout Cleaner LF uses cutting-edge technology to simplify and enhance the effectiveness of your tile and hard-surface cleaning operations. It is designed for use with hard surface cleaning equipment. The significant difference with this product is that it is ultra-low-foaming. Formulated with nano surfactant chemistry for penetration and soil release, it gives the professional cleaner an alkaline cleaning solution that delivers dependable results every time.
Actichem Tile & Grout Cleaner LF replaces Tile & Grout Cleaner Pro. Where older method sheets — including Actichem’s own — specify “T&G Cleaner Pro” as the neutralising rinse after acid restoration, LF is the current product.
Benefits
- Professional choice — removes grime with ease. Suitable for use on all tile, stone, concrete and grout surfaces.
- Ultra-low foaming — keeps foam to a minimum through hard-surface cleaning machines, protecting vacuum motors from being flooded out. This is the single practical reason to choose LF over a general alkaline cleaner.
- Smart cleaning power — innovative cleaning chemistry for soils, grease, fats and general grime build-ups.
- Tile smart — the chemistry provides a “minimum residue” clean, preventing discolouration caused by residue build-up on tiles.
- Not classified as dangerous goods — which makes it simpler and cheaper to transport than a Class 8 product. Note that this is a transport benefit only; see Safety below.
Application Areas and Surface Suitability
Suitable for use on all man-made tiles, natural stone products, clay products, concrete and grout. Avoid contact with non-ferrous metals, plated metals, painted surfaces, and flooring coated with an acrylic polymer or wax.
Ideal anywhere there are dirty tiles, concrete, stone or resilient flooring. Especially good in kitchens, dining areas, malls and large commercial areas, and for the maintenance and cleaning of commercial and public areas.
How to Use
- Read and understand the SDS before use.
- Always pre-test in an inconspicuous location for substrate sensitivity to chemicals.
Dilution
- Heavy-duty applications — 1 part Tile & Grout Cleaner LF to 4 to 9 parts water. Hot water will enhance the chemical action.
- Standard cleaning applications — 1 part to 50 to 100 parts water.
- As a neutralising rinse after acid restoration — 1:300 (30 ml per 10 litres).
Application — heavy duty
- Apply the solution with a clean mop and bucket, an auto-scrubber, or a rotary scrubber solution tank. Apply to a limited area at a time. Do not allow the solution to dry.
- Scrub thoroughly with an applicable nylon scouring floor pad or brush.
- Allow 10 to 30 minutes dwell time and re-agitate areas of stubborn soiling.
- Extract or pick up the resultant slurry with professional tile extraction equipment and rinse thoroughly with clear water.
Application — maintenance
Follow standard cleaning techniques. No clear water rinse is needed when using at 1:100. Ideal through auto-scrubbers and similar equipment.
Safety
Please read this section even if you have used this product before. Earlier versions of this page recorded the safety profile as non-hazardous, and stated that because the product is not classified as dangerous goods it is “substantially safer in use and in transport”. The transport half of that is right. The use half is not, and we have corrected it.
“Hazardous chemical” and “dangerous goods” are two separate determinations. A product can be perfectly ordinary to freight and still burn your eyes. Tile & Grout Cleaner LF is one of those.
It is classified as a HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL under the Model WHS Regulations, and it is not classified as dangerous goods. It is a Poisons Schedule 6 substance.
- Signal word: DANGER
- H315 — causes skin irritation
- H318 — causes serious eye damage
- GHS: Skin Corrosion/Irritation Category 2; Serious Eye Damage Category 1
- HAZCHEM code: 2X
- pH as supplied: 12.8 — our page previously said 12
- Actives: ethylene glycol monobutyl ether 10 to less than 30%; potassium hydroxide, sodium metasilicate pentahydrate, monoethanolamine, EDTA tetrasodium salt, potassium pyrophosphate and two proprietary surfactants, each below 10%
On “mildly alkaline”. pH 12.8 is not mild. It is roughly one pH unit — a factor of ten in hydroxide concentration — below Tile & Grout Power, which is a Class 8 corrosive. LF is genuinely gentler than Power on substrates and does not carry H314, but the concentrate still causes serious eye damage. It is the diluted working solution that is mild, not the drum.
Personal protective equipment
The SDS specifies chemical goggles, elbow-length gloves, overalls and a PVC apron. The glove materials named are butyl, PE, EVAL and PE/Saranex 23 — nitrile is not among them, which is worth knowing given the glycol ether content. Wear the goggles when decanting and when charging a solution tank; that is when concentrate splashes.
First aid
Eyes. Rinse cautiously with water for several minutes. Remove contact lenses if present and easy to do. Continue rinsing and immediately call a Poisons Information Centre or doctor.
Skin. Remove contaminated clothing and wash with soap and water. Seek medical attention if irritation occurs.
Mixing and Compatibility
Incompatible with strong acids and oxidising agents. This matters here more than usual, because LF is the product specified as the neutralising rinse after acid restoration — so acid and alkali are deliberately brought together on the same job.
That is safe at 1:300. It is not safe at concentration. Neutralisation releases heat, and a strong acid meeting a strong alkali in a bucket can boil and spit. Always dilute LF to 1:300 with water first, then apply it to the rinsed floor. Never pour concentrate onto spilled or undiluted acid product.
The acid products this applies to:
- Actichem Tile & Grout Restore
- Actichem Grout Restore 20
- Actichem Grout Restore 60
- Actichem Crete Clean and Actichem Rust Remover
Also avoid contact with non-ferrous and plated metals — alkali attacks aluminium and the reaction produces hydrogen.
Specifications
| Product code | AP167.05 |
| Pack size | 5 litres |
| Colour | Mauve |
| Fragrance | Sandalwood |
| pH as supplied | 12.8 |
| Foam | Ultra-low — suitable for auto-scrubbers and extraction equipment |
| Dilution — heavy duty | 1:4 to 1:9 |
| Dilution — standard | 1:50 to 1:100 |
| Dilution — neutralising rinse | 1:300 |
| Dwell time | 10 to 30 minutes |
| WHS classification | Hazardous chemical |
| Signal word | DANGER |
| Hazard statements | H315, H318 |
| HAZCHEM code | 2X |
| Dangerous goods | Non-dangerous goods — not regulated for transport |
| Poisons schedule | Schedule 6 |
| Incompatible with | Strong acids, oxidising agents, non-ferrous and plated metals, painted surfaces, acrylic polymer or wax coatings |
| SDS referenced | Version 2.3, issued 11 July 2025 |
Choosing Between the Hard Floor Chemicals
- Actichem Tile & Grout Cleaner LF 15 Ltr — the same product in the bulk pack
- Actichem Tile & Grout Power — pH 14, Class 8 corrosive. Step up to this only when LF will not shift heavy grease, oil or carbon.
- Actichem Tile & Grout Restore — acid, for mineral scale, cement smear and efflorescence. Alkaline cleaners will not touch those.
- Actichem Proneutro — the alternative neutralising rinse
The short version: LF is the everyday machine cleaner and the neutralising rinse. Power is the heavy hitter. The restorers are for scale and cement, not grease.
Safety Data Sheet
Actichem Tile & Grout Cleaner LF Safety Data Sheet — version 2.3, issued 11 July 2025
SKU: AP167.05
Running LF through an auto-scrubber for the first time, or unsure which dilution suits your machine and soil load? Contact Carpet Cleaners Warehouse — getting the ratio right is the difference between a clean floor and a residue problem.
