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Sandstone is a wonderful choice for natural-look flooring both indoors and outdoors. Due to its hardness and weight, many home and business owners pick this type of tile for high-traffic areas, but it still requires professional maintenance to keep dirt from becoming trapped in the surface.
If your sandstone or yorkstone floor is in need of restoration, our specialist floor care team in Tunbridge Wells have both the know-how and the professional equipment required to get the best results. We deploy 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
Manufacturers recommend weekly sweeping and dusting for any tile floor. Semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing is needed to clean deeper and and keep the floor looking its best.
How regularly you need to professionally deep clean, polish or seal your own sandstone or yorkstone floor depends on several things, including the the type of use the floor receives. Usually business premises and outdoor settings require professional cleaning more frequently than indoor domestic areas.
There are several signs of wear to be mindful of when deciding to book a professional restoration of your floor. Your local TileMaster professional can assist with identifying and remedying the following sandstone care problems:
- Faded appearance of the sandstone?
- No vibrancy to the colour of the stone?
- Does it look better when wet?
- Has the grout become dirty and loose?
- Have builders or tradesmen left the floor dusty and marked?
- Does mopping make no improvement?
- Do marks and stains come back after cleaning?
- Is the sandstone marked on the surface?
- Are there dull and faded spots?
- Would you like to restore the as-new finish?
Benefits of our sandstone cleaning and sealing service
Book the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Tunbridge Wells to bring back life to 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 excellent prices, including:
- Increase the lifespan of your sandstone slabs
- Decreased maintenance needed once the floor has been restored
- Sealing helps safeguard the grout, keeping it strong and clean for longer
- Better and brighter colours of the sandstone
- Application of a wax makes it more pleasant under foot
- A safer, healthier environment for your family and pets
- Our process protects your warranty coverage
- Our service creates very little disruption and leaves behind no dust
TileMaster’s sandstone restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster Tunbridge Wells has been carefully trained to work on sandstone floors. Using state-of-the-art floor cleaning machines in combination with our own custom solutions, our technicians use an advanced multi-step restoration process for restoring sandstone tiles and grout:
- Step 1 – We assess the sandstone floor and determine finish and seal options with our customer
- Step 2 – We take out all furniture and prepare room
- Step 3 – Surrounding areas and sensitive surfaces are protected with specialist low tack masking tape
- Step 4 – Vacuum or sweep area to remove top soil from the surface
- Step 5 – Application of our custom TileMaster cleaning agents to remove old sealer and previous treatments
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and power scrub with PH neutral floor cleaner. This deep cleans the sandstone, removing built up layers of dirt and grime
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinsing and high power vacuum drains the soil into our specialist on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Application of a diamond tipped brush to bring out a fresh layer of sandstone on the surface
- Step 9 – Speed dry floor and buff to tackle any final footprints and leave a clean mark-free floor
- Step 10 – Application of commercial grade impregnating sealer protects the finish and guards the grouting against future wear and tear
- Step 11 – Optional application of a matt or satin wax for a smoother, softer finish
- Step 12 – Inspection with customer, full advice offered for daily and weekly maintenance. We provide complementary 6 months worth of cleaner
Why choose TileMaster:
There are numerous reasons to choose TileMaster Tunbridge Wells to restore your sandstone floor. From our great prices to our quick and effective work, just check our happy customer’s reviews on Google, there are so many reasons to choose TileMaster:
- Fully insurance covers all domestic and commercial work
- Health and safety trained team
- Team trained specifically in sandstone restoration
- 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.
