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Travertine is a classic choice for flooring. It looks incredible when it’s well looked after, but it does require professional maintenance to avoid wear and tear.
If you are looking for professional help cleaning, restoring or just polishing a travertine floor, our specialist floor restoration team at TileMaster Hertford have a wealth of experience and the cutting edge equipment required to provide the highest quality results. First, TileMaster staff remove dirt from your floor, then buffing out surface marks and remove annoying surface scratches. We finish off with a protective sealant, which restores the travertine’s like-new shine, in turn making the tiles and grout easier to keep cleaner for longer.
How to tell if your travertine needs cleaning or restoration
Weekly sweeping and dusting of the floor is essential to keep it maintained. However, this should be supported by semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing to increase the floor’s lifespan for as much as possible.
How often you should professionally clean, polish and seal your travertine floor is decided based on a number of different things. One of the key factors when making this decision is the amount of footfall the floor receives. Usually, commercial premises require professional cleaning more frequently than domestic settings.
When deciding to arrange a professional restoration of your travertine you should check your travertine floor for these common issues:
- Colourless and lifeless travertine flooring
- Uneven floor with noticeable edges
- Holes and pits in the surface that make it uneven
- There are marks and cracks in the surface
- Mopping has no effect on the appearance of the floor
- The grouting has become worn and loose
- Your floor has leftover scuffs from builders or construction work
- Scratches and dirt won’t come out of the surface
- Dull spots
Benefits of our travertine cleaning and polishing service
Speak to the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Hertford about restoring your travertine tiles to discover why our customers consistently rave about our great service. There are many benefits of TileMaster’s travertine floor cleaning and polishing service as well as our fantastic prices. These include:
- Maximise the lifespan of your travertine flooring
- Achieving a more colourful and vibrant finish
- Reduce the need for maintenance sweeping once any holes and cracks have been filled
- Guard the grout with a top quality professional seal to keep it in good condition for longer
- Grinding the floor creates a smooth and seamless finish
- A safer, cleaner environment is better for your family and pets
- Our process protects your travertine floor’s warranty
- We work with minimal disruption and our teams leave no mess behind
TileMaster’s travertine restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster Hertford has been specifically trained to restore travertine floors. We use the most sophisticated techniques to get the best results for our customers. Our state-of-the-art floor cleaning machines and solutions allow our technicians to use a specialised multi-step process for restoring travertine and grout, which leaves behind a flawless finish:
- Step 1 – We will assess the travertine and discuss finish and seal options with you
- Step 2 – We remove furniture and prepare the area for work
- Step 3 – We will guard the surroundings and sensitive surfaces, masking them with a specialist low tack masking tape
- Step 4 – A thorough dry vacuuming and sweeping of the area removes soil and dirt
- Step 5 – We use custom cleaning agents to strip old sealer and remove previous cleaning solutions.
- Step 6 – Using mechanical agitation and a power scrub with PH neutral floor cleaner deep cleans the tiles and grout
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinsing and high power vacuum removes the dirty solution straight into our specialist on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Diamond sand smoothes the surface and deals with any marks or etching
- Step 9 – Diamond Polish to a Honed, Matt, Satin, high shine or mirror finish as per your requirements
- Step 10 – We then speed dry the floor and do a final buff to remove any remaining surface marks
- Step 11 – Commercial grade impregnating sealer protects the grout from oil and water based spills and stains
- Step 12 – The customer gives a final customer sign off. We will give you full advice on daily and weekly maintenance, with a complementary 6 months worth of cleaner
Why choose TileMaster:
There are tons of reasons to choose TileMaster Hertford to restore the travertine floor in your home or business back to its brilliant best, from our great prices to our quick and efficient work. Our many happy customers have rated us 5 stars on Google.
- We provide a friendly, local service
- We are fully insured for all domestic and commercial travertine restoration work
- Health and safety compliant work, displaying signage where needed
- Our staff are fully trained in the UK
- We work with minimal disruption to your surroundings
- Quality added value of service
- We move your furniture and replace it again
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.
