Travertine is a variant of limestone and is a classic choice for flooring. This type of floor looks fantastic when it’s well cared for, however it does need professional maintenance to avoid being damaged by everyday wear and tear.
If you’re looking for professional help with cleaning, restoring, or just polishing a travertine floor in Stockport, the team at TileMaster can help. Our specialist floor restoration team has a wealth of experience plus the cutting-edge equipment needed to provide the highest quality results on travertine floors. TileMaster Stockport can extract dirt from your travertine floor, then buff out surface marks and remove difficult surface scratches. We finish travertine restoration with a commercial grade protective sealant, meaning the floor is protected from spills and future maintenance will be easier.
When to book our travertine cleaning and restoration service in Stockport
To maintain your travertine floor, weekly sweeping and dusting is essential. You also need to book semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing to avoid damage. This will increase the travertine floor’s lifespan.
But how often should you book TileMaster to professionally clean your travertine floor in Stockport? Several factors will affect this. One of the main things to consider when making this decision is the amount of use the floor receives. Usually the more foot traffic the floor gets, the more frequently the floor needs professional cleaning. Commercial premises also often require professional cleaning more often than domestic settings.
If you are thinking about whether you need to arrange a professional restoration for your travertine floors in Stockport, you can check your floor for these common issues:
- Lifeless, faded travertine tiles
- Uneven edges to the travertine tiles
- Holes and pits in the travertine
- Cracks and damage on the surface of the travertine
- Mopping doesn’t improve the appearance of the floor
- Worn or loose grouting
- Scuffs and marks to the travertine from building work or dragged furniture
- Stubborn dirt that won’t come out of the surface
- Dull spots on the travertine
Benefits of the TileMaster Stockport travertine cleaning and polishing service
Discover why customers rave about our service by speaking to our trained and experienced staff today. We can discuss the restoration options for your travertine tiles. There are many benefits of TileMaster Stockport’s travertine floor cleaning and polishing service. Our advantages include:
- Maximise the lifespan of your travertine floor.
- An enhanced colourful and vibrant finish.
- Filled damage will no longer collect dirt so easily.
- A high quality professional seal will protect the grout.
- The finish will look seamless after grinding.
- Family and pets will enjoy a cleaner and safer environment with less bacterial build up.
- Cleaning and maintenance protects any warranty your travertine floor may have.
- Our service causes minimal disruption. No mess will be left behind.
TileMaster Stockport’s travertine restoration process:
Our team has been trained to expertly restore travertine floors. We use the most sophisticated techniques and equipment to achieve premium results with every restoration. Our specialist multi-stage cleaning process includes the use of state-of-the-art floor cleaning machines and solutions. This leaves behind a flawless finish:
- Step 1 – Initial assessment of the condition of the travertine and possible finish and seal options.
- Step 2 – We prepare the workspace by removing furniture.
- Step 3 – Low-tack masking tape protects sensitive surfaces and any surroundings that could be damaged during the process.
- Step 4 – Any soil or dirt is removed from the surface of the floor with dry sweeping and vacuuming.
- Step 5 – Custom cleaning agents strip away any old sealer and remove previous cleaning solutions.
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and a power scrub with PH-neutral floor cleaner deep cleans the travertine tiles and grout.
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinsing to remove the dirt and cleaner. A high-power vacuum extracts the dirty solution straight into our specialist vacuum tanks.
- Step 8 – Diamond sanding smooths the surface, which deals with any etching or marks.
- Step 9 – Diamond polishing creates either a honed, matt, satin, high shine, or mirror finish depending on your preference.
- Step 10 – We speed dry the floor. Once dry we do a final buff to get rid of any final surface marks.
- Step 11 – A commercial-grade impregnating sealer protects the grout from future spills and stains.
- Step 12 – Final inspection and sign-off with the customer. We give advice on the daily and weekly maintenance of travertine floors and offer 6 months’ worth of cleaner free of charge.
Why choose TileMaster for travertine floor cleaning in Stockport
There are many reasons why you should choose TileMaster Stockport to restore your travertine floor. Our work is quick and efficient and offered at great value prices. Many happy customers have rated us 5 stars on Google, here are just some of the reasons why:
- Friendly and professional local service in Stockport
- Our team are fully insured to work on all travertine floors
- Health and safety compliant work
- TileMaster Stockport staff have been fully trained in the United Kingdom
- Quality service and attention to detail
- Minimal disruption to your surroundings whilst your travertine restoration is in progress
- We can remove and replace furniture if required
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.
