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Limestone is a popular option for flooring which is often chosen for its attractive finish. When it’s professionally sealed, limestone is an excellent option for high traffic areas, but regular maintenance is a must to avoid damage.
Cleaning, restoring and polishing limestone floors should always be carried out by a professional. Our specialist restoration team in Tunbridge Wells have both the experience and the cutting edge equipment required to deliver exceptional results. We will remove dirt and debris from the floor, get rid of surface marks and scratches, restore its colour and reapply protective sealant. Your limestone floor will have a delightful new shine, making it easier to keep your tiles and grouting clean.
How to tell if your limestone needs cleaning or restoration
Most limestone flooring manufacturers suggest weekly sweeping and dusting of the tiles. Semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing is required to extend the floor’s lifespan for as long as possible. How often you should deep clean, polish and seal your limestone floor depends on the level of foot traffic it receives. Businesses usually need their floors deep cleaning more often than domestic customers due to increased levels of foot traffic
Limestone can be easily damaged, so there are a few things to look out for when thinking about booking a professional restoration. Your local TileMaster professional in Tunbridge Wells can assist you when it comes to diagnosing and resolving the following common limestone floor care issues:
- Has your limestone flooring become dull and lifeless?
- Has your floor been badly fitted with uneven tiles with dangerous edges?
- Has the grout become discoloured and worn?
- Have builders or tradesmen left dirt on the surface of your limestone?
- Does the floor look better when wet?
- Are there marks you can’t get remove?
- Does your floor have colourless spots?
- Are you looking to bring back an as-new finish?
Benefits of our limestone cleaning and polishing service
TileMaster Tunbridge Wells’s trained and experienced staff can restore your limestone tile floor and you’ll discover why our customers love our work so much. Not only do we offer great value prices, there are many other benefits of our limestone floor cleaning and polishing service, including:
- Increase the lifespan of your limestone flooring
- The cleaned floor will require less daily maintenance
- Sealing helps stop wear and tear from damaging the floor
- Brighter finish with improved colour
- Grinding the floor levels the surface out for a seamless look
- Your family and pets will enjoy a more hygienic, cleaner environment
- Protect the warranty of your floor
- Our teams work with as little mess and disruption as possible
TileMaster’s limestone restoration packages:
Staff at TileMaster Tunbridge Wells have been painstakingly trained to restore limestone floors in order to not damage the floor and ensure the best results for our customers. Our teams use state of the art cleaning machines and solutions and our technicians deploy an advanced multi-step process for cleaning tiles, restoring them to a brilliant finish:
Silver Package
- Step 1 – Assess the limestone floor and discuss finish and seal options
- Step 2 – Remove furniture from the area and prepare the room
- Step 3 – Masking applied to surrounding areas and sensitive surfaces using specialist low tack masking and protection
- Step 4 – Vacuuming and sweeping of the area to get rid of dry soil or abrasive grit from the floor
- Step 5 – Custom cleaning agents used to strip old sealer and previous treatments
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and power scrub with PH neutral floor cleaner. Deep cleaning removes years of dirt build up from the tiles and grout
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinse and high power vacuum extracts dirt into our specialist on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Diamond sanding removes marks and etches from surface
- Step 9 – Diamond Polish to either a Honed, Matt, Satin, high shine or mirror finish
- Step 10 – Speed dry the floor and buff to remove final surface footprints, leaving a perfect blemish free floor
- Step 11 – Commercial grade impregnating sealer is used to protect the limestone and grout from oil and water based spills and stains.
- Step 12 – Customer sign off and inspection of the floor, full advice is given for daily and weekly maintenance. We also offer complimentary 6 months worth of cleaner
Gold Package – Grind in Place – Floor Upgrade
All of the steps in Silver Package, plus:
- Premium quality diamond grinding to smooth lips / uneven tiles to make sure the floor is flat
- Specialist abrasive resin applied and ceramic diamonds used to effectively smooth out the entire floor and prepare for honing and polishing stage
- Extra special attention by hand paid to grout joints and edges to ensure the limestone is totally flat and to bring the edges in line with the middle of the floor
Why choose TileMaster:
There are many reasons you’ll be delighted with TileMaster when you book us to restore your limestone floors, including:
- Quickly and effective service
- TileMaster staff are fully insured for all floor restoration work
- Health and safety trained staff carry out work the with utmost care
- Quality added value of service
- Minimum disruption to the surrounding area whilst work is ongoing
- Friendly personal service from our staff
- We will move your furniture for you
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