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Slate is a fine grained, durable metamorphic rock used for many commercial and domestic interiors and exteriors. Slate is generally very tough, but it can scratch and crack more easily than other floor types.
If you are searching for help deep cleaning, restoring and polishing slate, our specialist floor restoration team in Tunbridge Wells have both the cutting edge equipment and the years of professional experience needed to achieve the highest quality results. Our teams will get rid of engrained dirt and debris, remove surface marks and buff out scratches before reapplying protective sealant. The result is a remarkable good-as-new shine that protects the tiles and grout in future.
How to tell your slate needs cleaning or restoration
Regular sweeping and dusting of any slate floor is essential to prevent the build up of dust and dirt. Professional cleaning and polishing should be carried out at frequent intervals to ensure the longest lifespan for the floor.
Exactly how regularly you should professionally clean your slate floor depends on several things, including the amount of foot traffic the floor receives each day. Naturally, high traffic business premises and areas open to the public need professional cleaning more regularly than a slate floor in a quiet home. Look out for these issues common to slate floors when booking a professional restoration of your tiles. Your local TileMaster professional can of course help identify and remedy any problems you have with your slate floor:
- Have your slate tiles become dull?
- Does you slate only look good when it’s wet?
- Is the grouting in poor condition?
- Has recent work left the tiles covered in dust or dirt?
- Does mopping make no difference to the tiles?
- Are there permanent marks which are impossible to remove?
- Does you slate floor have dull spots?
- Did the slate look better when it was new?
Benefits of our slate cleaning and sealing service
Speak to the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Tunbridge Wells to rejuvenate your slate tiled floor and discover out why our customers keep coming back. We offer great value prices and a huge number of benefits including:
- An increased lifespan for your floors
- Reduced regular maintenance
- Your grout will stay clean and tight for longer
- Your slate will appear brighter with fantastic colour
- Waxing makes the slate feel nicer under foot
- Stop build up of bacteria for a more hygienic home
- Professional servicing of the tiles protects their warranty
- We complete our work with a minimum of disturbance and always tidy up fully once work is complete
TileMaster’s slate restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster has been specially trained to service slate flooring, using only techniques and solutions made individually for use on slate. We use state-of-the-art floor cleaning equipment and our own custom made cleaning solutions, which enable our technicians to deploy a multi-step restoration process:
- Step 1 – Assess the workspace and choose finish and seal options with client
- Step 2 – Removal of any obstacles, followed by preparation of the workspace
- Step 3 – Surrounding areas are protected, nearby sensitive surfaces are shielded with low tack masking
- Step 4 – Vacuum or sweeping of the slate to get rid of top soil
- Step 5 – Old sealer residues are stripped and our custom cleaning solutions are applied
- Step 6 – Power scrub with mechanical agitation and PH neutral floor cleaner, removing all built up dirt and grime
- Step 7 – High power vacuuming and fresh water rinsing extracts all dirt
- Step 8 – Diamond tipped brush used to bring out a fresh top layer of the slate
- Step 9 – Floor is speed dried and the surface is polished to get rid of any final footprints and leave an outstanding blemish free floor
- Step 10 – Top quality impregnating sealer ensures grouting is protected
- Step 11 – Optional application of a matt or satin wax for a enhanced finish and under-foot feel
- Step 12 – Customer sign off of the floor to ensure satisfaction. Advice given for maintenance cleaning and customer is provided with complementary 6 months worth of slate floor cleaner.
Why choose TileMaster:
Restore your slate flooring with TileMaster Tunbridge Wells, we know you’ll be glad you did. With great prices and fast and efficient work, our many delighted customers are testament to the quality of our work. There are many reasons to choose TileMaster Tunbridge Wells, including:
- Fully insurance covers all domestic and commercial slate restoration
- Work always carried out safely
- Our teams are specifically trained for slate cleaning
- Top quality service at great value prices
- Minimal disruption to the surrounding area with full tidy up after
- Friendly local floor technicians in your area
- We 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
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
Why does my slate floor always look great when I wash it, but then it dry out dull and grey again?
The wet look that mopping gives to a slate floor brings its colours and shine out. Unfortunately, once the floor dries it quickly looks grey and dusty again. TileMaster offer a range of sealer that can enhance the colour and shine of your slate, while also offering a very durable and hard wearing finish
All products used are within the manufacturer’s guidelines, and where applicable your flooring manufacture own brand products can be used.
