Slate Cleaning London

Cleaning dirty Slate can be a real hassle, especially if there is a lot of ingrained soil in the tiles plus the grout. Being able to work through even basic Slate floor cleaning research is often difficult. There are a number of organizations making claims to provide great results, but how do you make a choice. This is great advice to help you determine what is involved in Slate cleaning and restoration.

Slate is an incredibly versatile stone which can be purchased with many different appearances, from a rough surface to a smooth or siny finish. We are commonly contacted to deep clean clean a slate floor when it is afflicted with many layers of sealer with ingrained soil, and so the surface looks dull and dirty. We have specialist machines and products to get rid of the ingrained dirt and old sealers, refurbishing the original slate appearance. We then apply a durable sealer which also makes your slate floor much easier to maintain. If you have got a suitable slate, it could be ground smooth, rendering it better to clean.

While the Slate may still be clean, the sealer can be thick and dirty.

older sealer and polish deposits may be hard for a homeowner to get rid of.

Specialist Slate cleaning can take off the sealer residues and impacted dirt.

First, apply a powerful Slate cleaner and sealer remover over the floor.

Let the cleaning chemical dwell on the floor for around 20 minutes.

A rotary scrubbing machine works the cleaner to release the ingrained dirt.

After that, rinse and vacuum away the slurry and assess the condition of the floor.

repeat the process until the floor looks clean.

Smooth Slate is usually clean after 1 or 2 scrubbing and rinsing steps.

Riven Slate usually needs more cleaning ad scrubbing passes.

After getting the tiles clean, there will nevertheless be some residual dirt, deep in the cavities and pores of the tile as well as the grout lines.

A final hot pressure rinse step is usually required.

This revolutionary mixture of pressure and whirling nozzles releases hard to clean impacted dirt to be vacuumed off.<.p>

Pressurised rinsing takes away the left over dirt.

Cleaning and repairing Slate is called Slate restoration.

Slate Floor Repair

Slate tiles crack When not installed well or When there is sub-floor movement.

Cracks in many cases are found in doorways and between rooms.

Some kinds of Slate tiles will also be at risk of cracking.

A crack repair will be noticeable, however a repair is less than the cost of replacement. 

We mend cracks in Slate by opening up the crack ready for filling.

We use fine diamond cutters, opening the crack to 2 to four mm according to the form of the crack.

The crack is filled with a coloured grout.

Grout could be left sponged or dry sanded.

It is hard to create a repair invisible.

But the crack repair is much more attractive than an ugly crack.

Slate Sealing

Kitchens, bathrooms and dining rooms have a lot of fatty and water spills to mark a Slte floor. Spills can easily permeate the top of tiles, giving annoying stains. High-quality Welsh Slate can mark, and imported varieties can differ considerably in porosity. A Slate sealer aids in preventing the spill from staining the Slate.