Travertine is a classic choice for flooring because it can look amazing when it’s well looked after. However, it does need semi-regular professional cleaning to avoid damage from everyday wear and tear.
If you’re looking for professional help for cleaning, restoring, or just polishing a travertine floor, the team at TileMaster Bath can assist. We are a specially trained floor restoration team with a wealth of experience. We have the cutting-edge equipment needed to achieve top quality results. TileMaster Bath will get rid of dirt from your travertine floor, buff out surface marks and polish out stubborn surface scratches. We finish the restoration with a protective seal which will restore the travertine’s shine and make future maintenance easier.
When to book our travertine cleaning and restoration service in Bath
To keep your travertine floor looking great, weekly sweeping and dusting is vital. However, you also need to arrange semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing to increase the travertine floor’s lifespan as much as possible.
How often should you professionally clean a travertine floor? Several factors will determine this. One of the main things to think about making this decision is the amount of wear and tear the floor receives. The heavier the foot traffic, the more frequently the floor needs deep cleaning. Commercial premises generally require a professional clean more often than domestic floors.
If you are considering booking a professional restoration for your travertine floors, you can check your floor for these common issues:
- Lifeless and colourless appearance of the travertine
- Uneven edges or sections of floor
- Holes and pits in the travertine’s surface
- Cracks and marks to the surface of the floor
- Mopping doesn’t improve the appearance of the travertine
- Worn grouting which has become loose
- Leftover scuffs and marks from building work
- Stubborn marks which won’t come out of the surface
- Dull, faded spots on the travertine
Benefits of the TileMaster Bath travertine cleaning and polishing service
Discover why customers love our great service by booking TileMaster Bath to clean your travertine floor. There are numerous benefits of the TileMaster travertine floor cleaning and polishing service. The advantages include:
- Extending the lifespan of the travertine floor.
- A more colourful and vibrant travertine floor.
- The need for maintenance is reduced when the cracks and holes are filled.
- A high-quality professional seal will protect the grout.
- The floor will be seamless after grinding.
- Enjoy a cleaner and safer environment for your children or pets.
- Cleaning and maintenance protects any applicable warranty.
- Efficient service which causes minimal disruption.
TileMaster Bath’s travertine restoration process:
Every member of the team at TileMaster Bath has been trained to expertly clean travertine floors. We use the most sophisticated techniques and equipment to get the best results for our clients. Our technicians deploy a special multi-step cleaning process which includes the use of state-of-the-art floor cleaning equipment and solutions. This method leaves behind a flawless finish:
- Step 1 – Before the restoration starts we assess the condition of the travertine and chat with you about possible finish and seal options.
- Step 2 – When a plan is in place we prepare the area for work by removing furniture.
- Step 3 – We apply low-tack masking tape to sensitive surfaces and any surroundings which could be damaged during the cleaning process.
- Step 4 – To remove all soil or dirt from the surface of the floor we sweep and dry vacuum the entire area.
- Step 5 – We use our custom cleaning agents to remove old sealers and previous cleaning solutions.
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and a power scrub using a PH-neutral floor cleaner. This deep cleans the travertine tiles.
- Step 7 – We use a fresh water rinse with a high-power vacuum to extract dirty solution straight into our specialist vacuum tanks.
- Step 8 – Diamond sanding smooths the surface and removes any etching or marks.
- Step 9 – Diamond polish creates either a honed, matt, satin, high shine, or mirror finish. You can choose which finish you would like.
- Step 10 – We speed dry the floor. Once dry, we carry out a final buff to remove any remaining surface abrasions.
- Step 11 – The last step of the travertine cleaning is to apply a commercial-grade impregnating sealer to protect the grout from spills and stains.
- Step 12 – Once the clean is finished the customer is invited to carry out a final inspection. We advise on the best weekly maintenance for travertine floors and you will receive a complementary 6 months’ worth of complimentary cleaner.
Why choose TileMaster for travertine floor cleaning in Bath
There are many reasons why you book TileMaster Bath to clean your travertine floor. We offer unbeatable prices and our work is quick and efficient. Many happy customers have rated us 5 stars on Google, here are just some of the reasons why:
- Friendly and professional, local service
- Fully insurance for all commercial and domestic travertine restoration
- Health and safety trained staff
- Fully trained floor care team
- Quality and top value service
- Considerate floor restoration with minimal disruption to your surroundings
- Furniture moved on request
FAQs
No problem! Using specialist filler and a traditional wax method we can colour match fillers on site to help make them look like a natural feature of your tile
Yes, we can use aggressive diamond tooling to remove the lips or sharp edges. Once the floor is flat we can smooth out the floor and bring back the wonderful polished finish
Scratches, scuff marks and damage on the floor can be removed if they are surface-level and in the dressing. Deeper scratches on the surface may require a more intensive process to use diamond pads to repair the scratch.
We are happy to give a ballpark figure from pictures and room sizes, as this can help customer budgeting on renovation projects if they are unsure whether to restore or replace, but ultimately we would need to carry out a full survey and demo before any work can take place.
Yes, we are always happy to call out and offer a free demo clean. Not only does this give you, the customer, a good indication of the results we can achieve, it also allows us to quote for the floor correctly, as we know the process required to achieve those results.
Every job is different, due to furniture, size of area and treatments required but during the free survey & demo we will give you an estimate of time. For example, we recently completed a deep clean and sealed a marble floor of 40sqm in 1.5 days
Every job is different but during the free survey we measure up, do a free demonstration clean to show the results we can achieve, and from this we send over a full proposal for you to browse at your own leisure. We do not give prices on the day or put you under any pressure for an answer there and then
Yes, the floor is fine to use once we leave on the first day. We try to leave protection on the floor in the main traffic way or around the kitchen island, in front of the sink or oven. We normally suggest just not to cook anything like spag bol or curry, however, because the sauce might end up splattering on the floor
Holes in travertine are perfectly natural and are caused by hot springs or gasses passing through the rock. The pits and air pockets can be filled in the factory process, but these can pop out and come away from foot traffic when the tiles are first laid. Also, some travertine is sold unfilled and during the fitting the tiler fixer will float the grout over the whole tile and fill up the holes and pits with grout. This is perfectly fine, however the grout can become stained and discoloured if it isn’t sealed and maintained correctly
All products used are within the manufacturer’s guidelines, and where applicable your flooring manufacture own brand products can be used.
