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Restoring Victorian Floor Tiles

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Every Victorian floor tiles restoration service must account fully for the period encaustic and geometric tiles present in many Victorian and Edwardian corridors. The floor tiles will be matt and unglazed, with all the colours resulting from the natural colours associated with the clay. If you live in an older residence, you may find a gorgeous Victorian victorian tile hall underneath carpet. Most of these floors look worn and gimy. But, with changes in fashion, many passageways are hidden below lino, bitumen, glue deposits and carpet, needing a professional deep clean.

Typical Victorian Tiles Conditions

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  • Worn Grimy look as a result of many years of usage.
  • Painting spots and other spills.
  • Rust, grease and oil stains.
  • Damage and holes along the side of the floor, from carpet nails.
  • Past applications of linseed oil and wax absorbed into the body of the tiles which has gone dark.
  • Grimy and missing cement grouting.

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Victorian Tiles Cleaning

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Victorian floors are manufactured from natural clay, for that reason they're really soft compared to hard other ceramic and porcelain tiles. Harsh restoration pads will remove your surface a tile. Coarse restoration can easily get rid of your design off encaustic floor tiles, harming a floor and ruining your whole look of the floor.

Water is essential in cleaning, but when restoration Victorian floor tiles, use as little as you are able to. Victorian floor tiles in many cases are on old permeable, unstable sub-floors. So water should not soak on the sub-floor. Too much water can impact your sub-floor, raising individual floor tiles or whole areas of a floor.

Cleaning Minton Tiles

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If your victorian tile floor is very soiled and stained, we suggest you get in touch with your local professional Victorian tiles cleaning service. They have machines and most significantly the experience to revive heavily soiled floors, without causing longlasting harm.

They begin by removing all existing sealers. They have access to a variety of sealing and coating removers to remove old [xfield_gluetar] coatings. The coatings removers are left to work for twenty minutes or perhaps overnight to work into and soften the old coatings and adhesives.

Scrubbing machinery with various grades of pads and brushes split up the residues. Then wash off with clean water and vacuum the residues. Repeat the procedure to get rid of all residues of this old coatings. Hand pads and brushes are handy get at the remaining coatings.

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Grouting Victorian Tiles

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Victorian tile floors commonly suffer a bit of base movement, opening the grout lines and perhaps, lifting or breaking tiles. 

Any gaps are best grout filled to help stabilise the floor. 

And then leave the floor to dry so it is ready to be sealed.

Sealing Victorian Floor Tiles

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Originally Victorian tiles were sealed with a linseed oil and then waxed. In the beginning, the linseed oil warms the colours in the , however in time, the linseed oil degrates and affects the colours in the floor. Using boiled linseed oil is hazardous when you don't work properly. Oily cloths can start to burn spontaneously. Modern sealers are safer, supply better protection and are usually much easier to apply.

Encaustic Tiles Cleaning

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Encaustic cement tiles have become more popular. These cement tiles can have patterns and colours hydraulically pressed onto the surface and they can be painted by hand.

Like other ceramic tiles, Encaustic tiles are generally speaking fairly simple to look Following, and need little maintenance. Still, because they're created from cement, the tiles are permiable and so are best sealed to prevent soil becoming trapped in the tile.

Following cleaning, the initial colours in the floor can appear washed out, so we recommend putting on a colour intensifying sealer to bring back the the original colours.

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