Limestone is a popular choice of flooring due to its smart finish, but it needs to be professionally sealed and maintained to make sure it stays durable and avoids damage.
Restoring, cleaning, and polishing limestone floor must be carried out by a professional. The team at TileMaster Leamington Spa are specialists who have the knowledge, experience and top-of-the-range equipment needed to get the best results. Our team clean the dirt from the floor and buff out scratches or other surface marks. Protective sealant leaves the floor stunning once more. When the clean is done your limestone floor will look freshly laid and you will discover that it is quicker to keep both the limestone and grouting clean.
How to tell if your limestone flooring needs restoring or cleaning
Manufacturers of limestone floors advise that you sweep and dust every week. To make the floor last as long as possible you should book a professional clean and polish. Commercial limestone floors need deep cleaning more regularly than the floors in homes because of the heavier levels of use.
Although limestone is tough, it can be damaged by drops and scrapes. There are many things to look out for when you decide whether it is time to arrange a professional clean or restoration. The TileMaster Leamington Spa team can help you spot problems with the limestone and offer solutions to fix them. Some of these issues include:
● Does the limestone flooring look tired?
● Has the limestone lost its shine?
● Have you noticed flat spots on the floor?
● Are there uneven tiles or sharp edges?
● Does the grout look worn and faded?
● Do the floors look better damp?
● Are the floors dirty due to recent building work?
● Have you noticed marks and scuffs that can’t be polished out?
Benefits of our limestone cleaning service in Leamington Spa
At TileMaster Leamington Spa our team are experts in restoring limestone tile floors. When you see the results you’ll understand why our customers keep coming back. There are many benefits of our limestone cleaning service in Leamington Spa:
● Extend the life of your limestone
● The colour of the floor will be enhanced with a brighter finish
● The floor won’t need as much daily maintenance
● A professional seal will stop everyday wear and tear from damaging the floor
● Maintenance protects the warranty of your tiles
● We grind the surface of the floor to create a smoother feel
● Everyone using the floor, including pets, benefits from a more hygienic environment
● Our teams work tirelessly to ensure that disruption and mess levels are minimal
TileMaster Leamington Spa’s limestone cleaning and restoration packages
All the staff at TileMaster Leamington Spa are trained to restore limestone floors to the highest standard. We use state-of-the-art cleaning equipment and products with a multi-stage process for cleaning and restoring limestone tiles.
TileMaster Leamington Spa Limestone Floor Restoration Silver Package
● Step 1 – Assessment of the limestone floor, we discuss finish and seal options.
● Step 2 – Prepare the area by clearing the furniture.
● Step 3 – We apply masking tape to surrounding areas and sensitive surfaces. We use low-tack masking tapes.
● Step 4 – Sweep & vacuum the area to remove surface dirt and grit.
● Step 5 – Apply custom cleaning agents to the limestone. These products will remove any old sealer.
● Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and a power scrub to deep clean the floor with PH-neutral floor cleaner.
● Step 7 – Fresh water rinse and high power vacuum.
● Step 8 – Diamond sanding.
● Step 9 – Diamond polish to achieve either a mirror finish, honed, matt, high shine, or satin finish.
● Step 10 – Speed dry the floor and final buff. This removes any final surface footprints. The floor will be free of blemishes.
● Step 11 – Commercial-grade sealer. This guards the limestone and grout from spills and stains.
● Step 12 – Customer sign off. We leave you with advice on the daily and weekly maintenance of limestone and 6 months’ worth of cleaner.
TileMaster Leamington Spa Limestone Floor Restoration Gold Package – Grind in Place Upgrade
In the gold limestone package you get all the silver steps above plus these stages:
● We apply a special abrasive resin and ceramic diamonds to smooth out the floor. This prepares the limestone for honing & polishing.
● We use premium diamond grinding to make sure the floor is flat, smoothing any uneven limestone tiles and lips.
● Our team makes sure the floor is totally flat. We bring the edges in line with the middle. This is done by smoothing grout joints and edges.
Why choose TileMaster Leamington Spa for limestone floor cleaning
When you book a limestone floor restoration with TileMaster Leamington Spa you’ll be delighted with the result and you will also benefit from:
● Efficient and effective service
● Local, friendly team
● Full insurance for all work
● Full health and safety training
● While the service is underway there will be minimal disruption
● We can help with moving 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
