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Slate is a fine grained, durable metamorphic rock used frequently in commercial and domestic interiors and exteriors. Slate is generally very hardy, but it can scratch or crack more easily than other floor types.
If you need help with deep cleaning, restoring and polishing your slate floor, our specialist floor restoration team in Hertford have years of professional experience, as well as the cutting edge equipment needed to achieve the highest quality results. Our teams will get rid of any engrained dirt, remove surface scuffs and buff out scratches before reapplying a protective sealant. The result is a remarkable just-laid shine that protects the tiles and grout for the future.
How to tell your slate needs cleaning or restoration
Regular sweeping and dusting of any slate floor is essential to prevent the build up of dust and dirt. However, professional cleaning and polishing is essential at frequent intervals to ensure the longest lifespan for your floor.
Exactly how often you should have your slate floor professionally cleaned depends on several things- the most important factor being the amount of foot traffic the floor receives each day. Naturally, high traffic commercial premises and areas frequently accessed by the public need professional cleaning more regularly than a slate floor in a quiet home. Look out for these frequent issues with slate floors when booking a professional restoration of your tiles. Your local TileMaster Hertford professional can of course help identify and remedy any problems you have with your slate floor:
- Have your slate tiles become dull?
- Has recent work to your home or business premises left the tiles covered in dust or dirt?
- Does you slate only look good when it’s wet?
- Is the grouting discoloured or in poor condition?
- Does you slate floor have dull, lifeless spots?
- Does mopping make no difference to the tiles?
- Are there permanent marks which you are finding impossible to remove?
- Did the slate look better when it was new?
Benefits of our slate cleaning and sealing service
When you enquire with the trained and experienced staff at TileMaster Hertford about rejuvenating your slate tiled floor, you will find out why our customers keep coming back. We offer great value prices and a huge number of benefits including:
- An increased lifespan for your floors
- Reduced regular maintenance
- Your slate will appear brighter, with a vibrant colour
- Your grout will stay clean and tight for longer
- Waxing will make the slate feel nicer under foot
- Professional tile servicing protects their warranty
- Stop the build up of dirt and bacteria for a more child and pet friendly home
- We complete our work with minimumal disturbance, and always tidy up fully once work is complete
TileMaster’s slate restoration packages:
All the friendly staff at TileMaster Hertford have been specially trained to service slate flooring, using only techniques and solutions made especially for slate. We use the highest quality floor cleaning equipment and our own custom made cleaning solutions, as part of the multi-step process our technicians use:
- Step 1 – Assess the workspace and choose finish and seal options with the customer
- Step 2 – Remove any furniture from the area to allow us to prepare the workspace
- Step 3 – Protect the surrounding areas. Nearby sensitive surfaces are shielded with low tack masking
- Step 4 – Vacuum or sweeping of the slate to get remove surface dirt
- Step 5 – Old sealer residues are stripped, and our custom cleaning solutions are applied
- Step 6 – A power scrub with mechanical agitation and PH neutral floor cleaner removes any built up dirt and grime
- Step 7 – High power vacuuming and fresh water rinsing extracts all dirt from the floor
- Step 8 – Using a diamond tipped brush brings out a fresh top layer of the slate
- Step 9 – The floor is then speed dried and the surface polished to remove any final footprints and leave an outstanding, mark free floor
- Step 10 – Using a top quality impregnating sealer ensures grouting is protected
- Step 11 – An optional application of a matt or satin wax will provide an enhanced finish and superior under-foot feel
- Step 12 – Customer sign off of the floor to ensure you are satisfied. We will give advice for maintenance and cleaning, and customer is provided with complementary 6 months worth of slate floor cleaner.
Why choose TileMaster:
When you restore your slate flooring with TileMaster Hertford, we know you’ll be pleased with your decision. With great prices and fast and efficient work, our many delighted customers are testament to the quality of our work. These are just some of the reasons to choose TileMaster Hertford, including:
- Friendly local floor technicians in your area
- We are fully insured, covering all domestic and commercial slate restoration
- We always carry out our work safely, with high regard to Health and Safety
- Top quality service at great value prices
- All of our team members are specifically trained for slate cleaning
- We work with minimal disruption and do a full tidy up after
- 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
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.
