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Sandstone is a great choice for natural-look flooring both indoors and outdoors. It has shades that are similar to the beach and desert sand with colours ranging from deep brown and tan to gold and red. Due to its hardness and weight, many home and business owners choose this type of tile for use in high-traffic areas, but it still needs occasional maintenance to keep dirt from becoming engrained.
If your sandstone or yorkstone floor is in need of rejuvenation, our specialist floor restoration team in Stockton have both the know-how and the professional equipment required to get brilliant results. We use a variety of restoration techniques to breathe new life into sandstone floors, protecting your investment and keeping your home or business hygienic and safe.
How to tell if your sandstone needs cleaning or restoration
Most manufacturers advise on weekly sweeping and dusting for any tile floor, with semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing also being required to clean deeper and and keep the floor looking its best.
How often you should professionally deep clean, polish or seal your own sandstone or yorkstone floor depends on several factors, including the amount of use the floor receives. Typically a business premises and outdoor settings need professional cleaning more frequently than indoor domestic areas.
There are several things to be aware of when deciding to book a professional restoration of your sandstone floor. Your local TileMaster professional can assist with diagnosing and remedying the following sandstone care problems:
- Has your sandstone flooring become worn and faded?
- Has your sandstone lost its vibrant colour from when it was new?
- Does it look better when damp?
- Has the grout become dirty and weak?
- Have builders or tradesmen left the floor dirty?
- Does mopping make no difference?
- Do marks and stains return after cleaning?
- Is the sandstone scratched?
- Are there dull spots?
- Would you like to bring back the as-new finish?
Benefits of our sandstone cleaning and sealing service
Book the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Stockton to revive your sandstone floors and find out why our customers love TileMaster. There are many benefits of TileMaster’s sandstone floor cleaning and polishing service, not just our great prices, including:
- Lengthen the lifespan of your sandstone slabs
- Reduced maintenance cleaning once the floor has been restored
- Sealing helps protect the grout, keeping it strong and clean for longer
- Better and brighter colours achieved
- Application of a wax makes it look and feel smoother and warmer
- A safer, more hygienic environment for your family and pets
- Our process safeguards your warranty coverage and keeps the floor looking better for longer
- Our service creates very little disruption and leaves no dust
TileMaster’s sandstone restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster Stockton has been carefully trained to restore sandstone floors to a professional level. Using state-of-the-art floor cleaning machines and our own custom solutions, our technicians use an advanced multi-step restoration process for cleaning tiles and grout, bringing back their original finish:
- Step 1 – We survey the sandstone floor and discuss finish and seal options with our customer
- Step 2 – We remove all furniture and prepare room
- Step 3 – Surrounding areas and sensitive surfaces are masked with specialist low tack masking and protection
- Step 4 – Vacuum or sweep area to remove top soil, dust and grit from the floor
- Step 5 – Application of our custom TileMaster cleaning agents to strip old sealer and previous treatments
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and power scrub with PH neutral floor cleaner. This deep cleans the sandstone, removing years of dirt and grime from the tiles and grout
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinsing and high power vacuum extracts the soil into our specialist on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Application of a diamond tipped brush to bring out a fresh layer of the surface stone
- Step 9 – Speed dry floor and buff to remove any final footprints and leave a perfect mark-free floor
- Step 10 – Application of commercial grade impregnating sealer to protect the finish and guard the grouting against oil and water based spills and stains
- Step 11 – Optional application of a matt or satin wax for a smoother, softer finish
- Step 12 – Inspection and sign off with customer, full advice given for daily and weekly maintenance. We provide complementary 6 months worth of cleaner
Why choose TileMaster:
There are many reasons to choose TileMaster Stockton to restore your sandstone floor. From our great prices to our quick and effective work, just ask our many happy customers, there are so many reasons to choose TileMaster:
- Fully insurance for domestic and commercial work
- Health and safety compliant work
- Fully sandstone trained team
- Top quality service
- Minimum disruption to workspace
- Friendly local, personal service
- We move your 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
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
All products used are within the manufacturer’s guidelines, and where applicable your flooring manufacture own brand products can be used.
First class job just finished by Chris and Andrea. Our marble flooring has been cleaned, restored and resealed and now looks amazing!
Professional, immaculately finished, great attention to detail and in the quoted time.
We highly recommend them!
I got in touch with Chris and Andrea on Monday and our floor was transformed by Friday!
It looks brand new and we can’t thank them enough!
I would definitely recommend them to anyone who keeps looking at their floor and thinking it needs restored – best decision I’ve made!!
Andrea and Chris rescued a large travertine floor in my house from grout glaze and badly applied sealant. They made a 5 out of 10 floor into a 10 out of 10. Great work and nice people.
Chris and Andrea are very knowledgeable and have done a great job on a damaged and unloved tiled coloured Victorian hall. Not only was the job done very professionally, but the flexibility and understanding I got when builders let me down on deadlines was phenomenal, and Chris and Andrea were both great, making a stressful end of project so much better. Very appreciated and I highly recommend them – thanks!