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Limestone is a popular option for flooring, often chosen for its smart finish. When it has been professionally sealed, limestone is an excellent option for high traffic areas. However, regular maintenance is a must to avoid damage to your limestone floor.
Cleaning, restoring and polishing limestone floors should always be carried out by a professional. Our specialist restoration team at TileMaster Hertfod have a wealth of experience and the cutting edge equipment necessary to deliver exceptional results. We will remove dirt from your floor, get rid of surface marks and scratches, restore its shine and reapply protective sealant. Your limestone floor will have that just-laid finish, making it easier to keep your tiles and grouting clean.
How to tell if your limestone needs cleaning or restoration
Most limestone flooring manufacturers suggest weekly sweeping and dusting of the tiles to maintain them. However, to extend your floor’s lifespan for as long as possible, semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing is required. How often you should deep clean, polish and seal your limestone floor depends on the level of foot traffic it receives. Commercial limestone floors usually need deep cleaning more often than domestic customers due to higher levels of foot traffic
Limestone can be easily damaged, so there are several things to look out for when thinking about booking a professional restoration. Your local TileMaster professional in Hertford can assist you when it comes to diagnosing and resolving the following common limestone floor care issues:
- Has your limestone flooring become dull and lost its shine?
- Does your floor have colourless spots?
- Has your floor been badly fitted, with uneven tiles with hazardous edges?
- Has the grout faded and become worn?
- Does the floor look better when wet?
- Have builders or tradespeople left dirt on the surface of your limestone?
- Are there marks or scuffs you can’t get remove?
- Are you looking to bring back an as-new finish?
Benefits of our limestone cleaning and polishing service
When TileMaster Hertford’s trained and experienced staff restore your limestone tile floor, you’ll discover why our customers love our work so much. Not only is our work great value, there are many other benefits of our limestone floor cleaning and polishing service. These include:
- Increase the lifespan of your limestone flooring
- Brighter finish with improved colour
- A restored floor will require less daily maintenance
- Sealing helps stop wear and tear from damaging the floor
- Protect the warranty of your floor
- Grinding the floor levels the surface out for a seamless and uniform look
- Your family and pets will enjoy a more hygienic, cleaner environment
- Our teams work to minimise mess and disruption as possible
TileMaster’s limestone restoration packages:
Staff at TileMaster Hertford have been thoroughly trained to restore limestone floors to a high level, in order to not damage the floor and ensure the best results for our customers. Our teams use state of the art cleaning machines and cleaning solutions using an advanced multi-step process for cleaning tiles, restoring them to a brilliant finish:
Silver Package
- Step 1 – Assess the limestone floor and discuss finish and seal options
- Step 2 – Remove furniture from the area to prepare the room
- Step 3 – Apply masking to surrounding areas and sensitive surfaces, using specialist low tack masking and protection
- Step 4 – Vacuuming and sweeping the area to get rid of dirt or abrasive grit from the floor
- Step 5 – Using custom cleaning agents to strip old sealer and previous treatments from the floor
- Step 6 – Deep cleaning with a mechanical agitation and a power scrub with PH neutral floor cleaner, to remove years of dirt build up from the tiles and grout
- Step 7 – Using a fresh water rinse and high power vacuum extracts dirt into our specialist on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Diamond sanding removes scratches and scuffs from surface
- Step 9 – Diamond Polish to either a Honed, Matt, Satin, high shine or mirror finish
- Step 10 – Speed dry the floor and do a final buff to remove any remaining surface footprints, leaving a perfect blemish free floor
- Step 11 – Commercial grade impregnating sealer is used to protect the limestone and grout from oil and water based spills and stains.
- Step 12 – Customer sign off and inspection of the floor. We will give you full advice is given for daily and weekly maintenance. We also offer complimentary 6 months worth of cleaner
Gold Package – Grind in Place – Floor Upgrade
All of the steps in Silver Package, plus:
- A specialist abrasive resin is applied and ceramic diamonds are used to effectively smooth out the whole floor and prepare it for the honing and polishing stage
- Premium quality diamond grinding to smooth lips and uneven tiles, making sure the floor is flat
- Extra special attention by hand paid to grout joints and edges to ensure the limestone is totally flat and to bring the edges in line with the middle of the floor
Why choose TileMaster:
There are so many reasons you’ll be satisfied with TileMaster Hertford when you book us to restore your limestone floors, including:
- Quick and effective service
- Friendly personal service from our staff
- TileMaster staff are fully insured for all floor restoration work
- Quality added value of service
- Our Health and safety trained staff carry out work the with utmost care and attention
- Minimum disruption to the surrounding area whilst work is ongoing
- We will 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