Limestone flooring offers a smart finish and is durable enough to endure high foot traffic. Limestone tile floors must, however, be professionally sealed and maintained in order to stay durable and to avoid damage.
Restoring, cleaning, and polishing of limestone floor should always be carried out by a professional. The team at TileMaster Stockport are specialists who have the knowledge, experience and top-of-the-range equipment needed to achieve the best results. Our team will extract and rinse away any dirt on the floor, buff out scratches and other surface marks, reapply protective sealant and leave the floor shining. When the clean is complete your limestone floor will look freshly laid and you’ll find it much easier to keep both the tiles and grouting clean in future.
When does your limestone flooring need professional restoration?
Limestone floors should be swept and dusted every week to avoid scratches. To make the floor last even longer you should arrange a professional clean and polish at least once a year. Commercial limestone floors need deep cleaning more regularly as they generally have higher levels of foot traffic.
Whilst limestone floors are durable, they can be damaged easily. There are many things to look out for when checking the floor and deciding to book a professional restoration. The TileMaster Stockport team can help you identify problems with the limestone and offer solutions to fix them. Some common issues are:
- Dull-looking limestone tiles
- Limestone floor which has lost its shine
- There are colourless spots on the limestone
- There are uneven tiles with sharp edges
- The grouting looks worn or deformed
- The limestone floor looks better when wet
- Building work or dragged furniture has left the floor with marks
- The limestone has stubborn marks which won’t mop out
Benefits of our limestone cleaning service in Stockport
At TileMaster Stockport our team are experts in restoring limestone tile floors, once you see the results you’ll understand why our customers keep coming back. There are many benefits of to limestone cleaning service in Stockport, these include:
- Extended lifespan of your limestone floor
- Better colour and brighter finish
- The floor won’t need as much daily maintenance when work is complete
- A professional seal will help stop everyday wear and tear from marking the floor
- Maintenance protects any warranty your floor may have
- Grinding the surface of the floor creates a seamless look
- Reduced bacterial build up leaves behind a clean and more hygienic environment
- Our teams work hard to ensure that disruption and mess is kept to a minimum
TileMaster Stockport’s limestone cleaning and restoration packages
All the staff at TileMaster Stockport are specialists who are trained to restore limestone floors to the best standards. We use state-of-the-art cleaning equipment and products and are trained in a multi-stage process for cleaning and restoring limestone tile floors. Our process is as follows:
TileMaster Stockport Limestone Floor Restoration Silver Package
- Step 1 – We assess the limestone floor and discuss the finish and seal options with our client.
- Step 2 – We prepare the area by moving furniture and other obstacles out of the way.
- Step 3 – We apply specialist masking tape to surrounding areas and on sensitive surfaces to protect them.
- Step 4 – We sweep and vacuum the area to remove surface dirt and any abrasive grit.
- Step 5 – We apply custom cleaning agents to the floor. These products strip the old sealer and any previous treatments away ready for deep cleaning.
- Step 6 – We use mechanical agitation and a power scrub to deep clean the floor with a PH-neutral floor cleaner. This can remove years of built-up grime from both the limestone tiles and grout.
- Step 7 – We use a fresh water rinse and high power vacuum to extract the dirt into our specialist onboard vacuum tanks.
- Step 8 – We buff out surface scratches and scuffs by diamond sanding.
- Step 9 – A diamond polish achieves the final finish. We can achieve either a mirror finish, honed, matt, high shine, or satin finish depending on the client’s preference.
- Step 10 – We speed dry the floor and do a final polish. This removes any remaining surface marks.
- Step 11 – A commercial-grade impregnating sealer is applied to protect the limestone and grout from spills and stains.
- Step 12 – Client inspection and sign off. We will give you advice on the daily and weekly maintenance for your limestone floor and leave you with 6 months worth of floor cleaner for free.
TileMaster Stockport Limestone Floor Restoration Gold Package – Grind in Place Upgrade
In the gold limestone restoration package you will receive all the silver steps plus these additional stages:
- Before we polish the limestone floor we apply a special abrasive resin and use ceramic diamonds to enhance the smoothness of the floor. This prepares the limestone for additional honing and polishing.
- We use premium quality diamond grinding to make sure the floor is flat. This smooths out any uneven limestone tiles and lips.
- We bring the edges in line with the middle of the floor by paying special attention to all grout joints and edges.
Why choose TileMaster Stockport for limestone floor cleaning
When you book a limestone floor restoration with TileMaster Stockport you will be delighted with the results. You will also benefit from:
- Efficient service
- Friendly, local staff
- Fully insured limestone restoration
- Careful, health and safety trained team
- Minimal disruption to the surrounding area whilst work is underway
- Premium quality service
- We assist 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