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Slate is a fine grained, durable metamorphic rock used in many different interiors and exteriors around the world. Slate is generally very hardwearing, although it can scratch more easily than other flooring options and crack under impact.
If you are looking for help deep cleaning, restoring and polishing, our specialist floor restoration team in Biggleswade have both the state-of-the-art equipment and the years of professional experience needed to achieve the highest quality results. Our teams will eliminate engrained dirt and debris, banish surface marks and buff out surface scratches before reapplying protective sealant. The result is a wonderful good-as-new shine that makes tiles and grout easier to keep cleaner in future.
How to tell your slate needs cleaning or restoration
Weekly sweeping and dusting of any slate floor is essential to stop the build up of dust and dirt. Professional cleaning and polishing should also be carried out at regular intervals to ensure the longest lifespan for the floor.
Exactly how often you should professionally clean your slate floor depends on several factors, including the amount of foot traffic the floor receives. Naturally, high traffic business premises and areas open to the public need professional cleaning more regularly than a domestic slate floor. Look out for these issues common to slate floors when arranging a professional restoration of your tiles. Your local TileMaster professional can of course help identify and fix problems you may have with your floor:
- Have your slate tiles become faded and worn?
- Does you slate only look good when it’s damp?
- Is the grouting discoloured or shrunken?
- Has recent work left the tiles dusty or dirty?
- Does mopping fail to clean the tiles?
- Are there tough marks which are impossible to remove?
- Does you slate floor have faded spots?
- Did the slate look much more attractive when it was new?
Benefits of our slate cleaning and sealing service
Book the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Biggleswade to rejuvenate your slate tiled floor and find out why our customers keep coming back to TileMaster. Not only do we offer great value prices, there are a huge number of benefits to booking TileMaster’s slate floor restoration service, including:
- An extended lifespan for your floors
- Less regular maintenance required
- Your grout will stay clean and fresh for longer
- Your slate will appear brighter with deeper colour
- Waxing make the slate feel smoother under foot
- Prevent build up of bacteria for a more hygienic home
- Professional servicing of the tiles safeguards their warranty
- We carry out our work with a minimum of disturbance and always tidy up after work is complete
TileMaster’s slate restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster has been specifically trained to restore slate flooring, using only techniques and solutions made for use on slate, in order to ensure the best possible results for our customers. Using state-of-the-art floor cleaning equipment and our own custom made cleaning solutions, our technicians deploy an specialised multi-step restoration process for cleaning slate and grout, restoring all to a colourful and vibrant finish:
- Step 1 – Survey the workspace and decide on finish and seal options with client
- Step 2 – Removal of any furniture and obstacles, followed by preparation of the area
- Step 3 – Surrounding areas are protected, nearby sensitive surfaces are shielded with low tack masking and protection
- Step 4 – Vacuum or sweeping of the slate to remove any dry top soil, grit and dirt
- Step 5 – Old sealer residues are removed and previous treatments and our custom cleaning solutions are applied
- Step 6 – Deep cleaning: power scrub with mechanical agitation and PH neutral floor cleaner, removing all built up dirt and grime
- Step 7 – High power vacuuming and fresh water rinsing extracts the dirt
- Step 8 – We use a specialist diamond tipped brush to bring out a fresh top layer of the slate
- Step 9 – Floor is speed dried and the surface is polished to remove footprints and leave an outstanding blemish free floor
- Step 10 – Grout protected from future spills with top quality impregnating sealer
- Step 11 – Optional application of a matt or satin wax for a smoother finish and under-foot feel
- Step 12 – Customer inspection of the floor to ensure satisfaction. Advice given for maintenance cleaning and customer is provided with complementary 6 months worth of cleaner
Why choose TileMaster:
Restore your slate flooring with TileMaster Biggleswade, we know you’ll love the results. With great prices and fast and efficient work, our many happy customers are testament to the quality of our work. There are many reasons to choose TileMaster Biggleswade, including:
- Fully insurance cover for all domestic and commercial slate restoration work
- Work always carried out competently and safely
- Our teams are specially trained for slate cleaning
- Top quality service at great value prices
- Minimal disruption to the surrounding area with full clean up after
- Friendly local floor technicians in your area
- We move your furniture for you
FAQs
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.
Normally the floor needs around 4 hours to dry. If we are only sealing the grout, the floor is fine for socks and slippers after 1 hour, but depending on the porosity of the tiles, room temperature and other factors, the floor can take longer to dry.
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
Why does my slate floor always look great when I wash it, but then it dry out dull and grey again?
The wet look that mopping gives to a slate floor brings its colours and shine out. Unfortunately, once the floor dries it quickly looks grey and dusty again. TileMaster offer a range of sealer that can enhance the colour and shine of your slate, while also offering a very durable and hard wearing finish
All products used are within the manufacturer’s guidelines, and where applicable your flooring manufacture own brand products can be used.
