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Sandstone is a fantastic choice for natural-look flooring, both indoors and outdoors. Due to its durability, many home and business owners pick sandstone for high-traffic areas. However, sandstone still needs regular maintenance to prevent dirt becoming trapped in the surface.
If your sandstone or yorkstone floor is in need of restoration, our specialist floor care team at TileMaster Hertford have the extensive experience and professional equipment required to get the highest-quality results. We use a variety of restoration techniques to reinvigorate your sandstone floors, protecting your investment and keeping your home or business clean and safe.
How to tell if your sandstone needs cleaning or restoration
Manufacturers recommend weekly sweeping and dusting for any tile floor. However, semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing is required to truly deep clean the floor, keeping it looking its best.
How regularly you need to professionally deep clean, polish or seal your sandstone or yorkstone floor depends on a variety of factors. The most important among these is the frequency of use the floor receives. Usually, commercial premises and outdoor flooring requires professional cleaning more frequently than sandstone flooring in the home.
There are several signs of wear to be aware of when deciding to book a professional restoration of your floor. Your local TileMaster Hertford professional can assist with identifying and remedying the following sandstone care issues:
- Has your sandstone floor faded?
- Is there no vibrancy to the colour of the stone?
- Are there dull and faded spots?
- Has the grout become dirty and loose?
- Does the floor look better when wet?
- Have builders or tradesmen left the floor scuffed or dirty?
- Are there stubborn marks on the sandstone surface?
- Does mopping make no improvement?
- Do marks and stains return, even after cleaning?
- Would you like to restore the just-laid finish?
Benefits of our sandstone cleaning and sealing service
When you book the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Hertford to restore your sandstone floors, you will find out why our customers love TileMaster. There are so many benefits of TileMaster’s sandstone floor cleaning and polishing service- not just our excellent prices! Benefits include:
- Increase the life of your sandstone slabs
- Maintain a safer, healthier environment for your family, pets or customers
- Decrease your daily maintenance once the floor has been restored
- Better and more vibrant colours of the sandstone
- Sealing helps to safeguard the grout, keeping it stronger and clean for longer
- Applying a wax makes your floor more pleasant under foot
- Our process protects your warranty coverage
- Our staff creat minimal disruption and leave behind no mess
TileMaster’s sandstone restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster Hertford has been carefully trained to restore sandstone floors. We use state-of-the-art floor cleaning machines and our own custom cleaning solutions throughout an advanced multi-step restoration process for restoring sandstone tiles and grout:
- Step 1 – We assess the sandstone floor and discuss finish and seal options with the customer
- Step 2 – We remove any furniture and prepare room
- Step 3 – Any surrounding areas and sensitive surfaces are protected with specialist, low tack masking tape
- Step 4 – Vacuuming or sweeping the area removes any surface dirt
- Step 5 – Applying our custom TileMaster cleaning agents removes any old sealer or previous treatments
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and power scrubbing the floor with PH neutral floor cleaner. This deep cleans the sandstone, removing built up layers of dirt and grime
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinsing and high power vacuum drains the solution into our specialist, on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Applying a diamond tipped brush brings out a fresh layer of sandstone on the surface of your floor
- Step 9 – Speed dry floor and a final buff to tackle any lingering footprints and leave a clean, mark-free floor
- Step 10 – Application of commercial grade impregnating sealer protects the finish and guards the grouting against future wear and tear
- Step 11 – An optional application of a matt or satin wax for a smoother, softer finish
- Step 12 – Customer sign-off. We give full advice surrounding daily and weekly maintenance, as well as providing 6 months worth of complementary cleaner
Why choose TileMaster:
There are a multitude of reasons to choose TileMaster Hertford to treat and restore your sandstone floor. From our great prices to our highest quality service- just check out our happy customer’s reviews on Google! There are so many reasons to choose TileMaster:
- We are fully insured, covering all domestic and commercial work
- Our team are fully Health and Safety trained
- Our team is trained specifically in sandstone restoration
- Providing a friendly, local, and personalised service
- Top quality service
- Our team work with minimum disruption to your home or workplace
- We move your furniture
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
All products used are within the manufacturer’s guidelines, and where applicable your flooring manufacture own brand products can be used.
