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Travertine is a great choice for flooring. It looks beautiful when it’s well looked after, but it does require professional maintenance to avoid wear and tear.
If you are looking for professional help cleaning, restoring or just polishing a travertine floor, our specialist floor restoration team in Tunbridge Wells have both the experience and the cutting edge equipment needed to provide the highest quality results. First, TileMaster staff remove dirt and debris, then we buff out surface marks and remove annoying surface scratches. Protective sealant is then used, which restores the travertine’s like-new shine, in turn making the tiles and grout easier to keep cleaner for longer.
How to tell your travertine needs cleaning or restoration
Weekly sweeping and dusting of the floor is essential, supported by semi-regular professional cleaning and polishing to increase the floor’s lifespan for as long as possible.
The frequency with which you should professionally clean, polish and seal your travertine floor is decided based on a number of different things, such as the amount of footfall the floor receives. Usually business premises require professional cleaning more frequently than domestic settings.
When deciding to arrange a professional restoration of your travertine you should check for these common travertine issues:
- Colourless and lifeless travertine flooring
- Holes and pits in the surface that make it uneven
- Marks and cracks in the surface
- Uneven floor with noticeable edges
- Worn, loose grouting
- Dust from builders or construction work
- Mopping has no effect
- Scratches and dirt won’t come out of the surface
- Dull spots
Benefits of our travertine cleaning and polishing service
Speak to the trained and experienced staff of TileMaster Tunbridge Wells about restoring your travertine tiles to discover why our customers consistently rate us 5 stars. There are numerous benefits of TileMaster’s travertine floor cleaning and polishing service beyond our fantastic prices, including:
- Maximise the lifespan of your travertine flooring
- Reduce the need for maintenance sweeping once any holes and cracks have been filled
- Guard the grout with a professional seal to keep it in good condition for longer
- More colourful and brighter finish achieved
- Grinding the floor creates a smooth and seamless finish
- A safer, bacteria-free environment is better for family and pets
- Our process protects your travertine floor’s warranty
- We work with minimal disruption and our teams leave no mess behind
TileMaster’s travertine restoration packages:
Every member of staff at TileMaster has been specifically trained to restore travertine floors, using only the best techniques in order to get the best results for our customers. Our state-of-the-art floor cleaning machines and solutions allow our technicians to deploy an specialised multi-step process for restoring travertine and grout, leaving behind an impressive finish:
- Step 1 – TileMaster assess the travertine and discuss finish and seal options
- Step 2 – We remove furniture and prepare the area for work
- Step 3 – Surroundings are guarded and sensitive surfaces masked with specialist low tack masking tape
- Step 4 – Dry vacuuming and sweeping of the area removes dry soil and grit
- Step 5 – We use custom cleaning agents to strip old sealer and remove previous cleaning solutions.
- Step 6 – Mechanical agitation and power scrub with PH neutral floor cleaner, deep cleaning the tiles and grout
- Step 7 – Fresh water rinsing and high power vacuum removes the dirty solution into our specialist on board vacuum tanks
- Step 8 – Diamond sand smoothes the surface and tackles marks and etching
- Step 9 – Diamond Polish to a Honed, Matt, Satin, high shine or mirror finish as required
- Step 10 – Speed dry floor and buff to remove final surface marks
- Step 11 – Commercial grade impregnating sealer protects the grout from oil and water based spills and stains
- Step 12 – Final customer sign off process, full advice given for daily and weekly maintenance, complementary 6 months worth of cleaner
Why choose TileMaster:
There are tons of reasons to choose TileMaster Tunbridge Wells to restore the travertine floor in your home or business. From our great prices to our quick and efficient work. Our many happy customers rate us 5 stars on Google.
- Fully insured for all domestic and commercial travertine restoration work
- Health and safety compliant work, displaying signage where needed
- Staff fully trained in the UK
- Quality added value of service
- Minimised disruption to your surroundings
- Friendly, local service
- We move your furniture and replace it again
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.
