Slate Cleaning London

It could be a chore cleaning your Slate floor. Being able to negotiate through basic Slate floor cleaning problem solving can be difficult. As a result of this, you will want to call on a professional Slate restoration team to deal with it for you personally. Here is a road map to Slate restoration to assist you when selecting a Slate restoration professional.

Slate is an incredibly manageable stone that may be purchased with a range of finishes, from a rough surface to a smooth or polished finish. We have been mainly contacted to restore a slate floor when it suffers from many layers of sealer with ingrained soil, so that the surface appears dull and dirty. We now have specialist machines and products to get rid of the dirt and residual sealers, rejuvenating the slate finish. Then we put on hard wearing sealers. If you've got the right slate, it may be ground smooth, which makes it much easier to clean.

Often we are called to clean slate to get rid of unattractive layers of old sealer and ingrained dirt.

Once a Slate floor has a heavy coat of older sealer, it is tough for a home owner to get rid of it.

You require professional Slate cleaning resources to remove the old sealer residues and dirt.

We apply a strong cleaner and sealer remover.

Leave the Slate cleaner for around twenty minutes to break up the sealer and impacted dirt.

Scrubbing equipment gets the soil from the tiles.

Rinse the floor with water and vacuum up the slurry.

Keep on scrubbing and rinsing until the floor is clean.

One or two scrub and rinse steps is normally sufficient for smooth Slate tile floors.

But, with riven Slate, unfilled or filled, the cleaning may require to be repeated a number of times.

Machine scrubbing may not get rid of all the impacted dirt.

A final hot pressure rinse step is often necessary.

Pressurised heated water is pushed into the stone, expelling the soil, that is immediately vacuumed out.<.p>

It is astonishing how much more soil this pressure rinsing process takes out.

Slate restoration covers all areas of professional Slate tile cleaning and repair.

Slate Floor Repair

Movement in the subfloor usually triggers cracks or fractures in Slate tiles.

Which is why cracks appear in doorways and in between different subfloors.

Some kinds of Slate tiles will also be prone to cracking.

Crack repaircosts not as much as replacing the tile.

Fine cracks in Slate are way too fine to accept a filling material.

We employ fine diamond cutters, opening up the crack to two to 4 mm with regards to the shape of the crack.

Then we fill the crack with a colour matched grout filler.

Grout may be left sponged or dry sanded.

It is difficult to make a crack repair invisible.

However a repair looks better than an unsightly crack.

Slate Sealing

Kitchens, bathrooms and dining rooms have plenty of oil and water-based liquids that will mark a Slate tile floor. Spills can penetrate the top of Slate tiles, leaving unattractive stains. Supreme quality Welsh Slate can easily mark, and imported varieties can vary significantly in sbsorbancy. A sealer helps prevent the spill from staining the Slate.