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Restoring Victorian Floor Tiles

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Any Victorian floor tiles restoration service must account fully for the period geometric and encaustic tiles present in Victorian and Edwardian hallways. Such floor tiles are matt and unglazed, with the colours caused by the natural colours from with the clay. If you're in an old residence, you may find a lovely Victorian victorian tile hall below carpet. Most of these floors look distressed and grubby. However, with changes in fashion, many corridors are actually hidden away below linoleum, carpet, bitumen and glue deposits, needing a professional restoration.

Well-Known Victorian Tiles Problems

typical problems with victorian tile floors in London
  • Worn Grubby look as a result of many years of wear.
  • Painting spots and also other spills.
  • Rust, oil and grease marks.
  • Damage and holes along the side of the floor, because of gripper bar nails.
  • Used coatings of waxes and linseed soaked up in to the body of the tiles that has gone dark.
  • Dirty and lost grout.

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Victorian Tiles Cleaning

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Victorian floors are made of natural clay, for that reason they're pretty soft in comparison to glazed most other ceramic and porcelain floor tiles. Abrasive cleaning pads can take away your surface a tile. Abrasive restoration can easily remove your pattern off encaustic floor tiles, ruining the floor and ruining a look of your floor.

Water is essential in restoration, but cleaning Victorian floor tiles, use only a small amount as possible. Victorian tiles tend to be on old porous, unstable sub-floors. So water should not soak through to sub-floor. An excessive amount of water can impact a sub-floor, lifting individual tiles or whole areas of your floor.

Cleaning Minton Tiles

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If your victorian tile floor is really soiled with old sealer residues, you really need to contact your local professional Victorian tiles cleaning service. The company will have machinery and most of all the experience to clean and restore heavily soiled floors, without causing long-term harm.

They begin by taking away all existing sealers. They can use a variety of coating and sealer removers to get rid of old [xfield_gluetar] coatings. The coatings removers are left to work for 20 minutes or overnight to work into and break down the old coatings and glues.

Rotary scrubbing machinery with different grades of cleaning pads and brushes break away the coatings. Then rinse with water and vacuum away the slurry and residues. Repeat the procedure to remove all residues of this old coatings. Hand scrubing pads and hand scrubbing brushes are helpful get to the remaining coatings.

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Grouting Victorian Tiles

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Victorian tile floors normally suffer some base movement, opening the gaps in between tiles and in some cases, dislodging or breaking individual tiles. 

Gaps between tiles should be filled with grout to help stabilise the floor. 

Next leave the floor to dry so it is ready for sealing.

Sealing Victorian Floor Tiles

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Victorian clay tiles were usually with a linseed oil and then waxed. First off, the boiled linseed oil warms the colours in the , however with time, the oil starts to break down and dulls the tones. Applying linseed oil is risky if you don't take the necessary precautions. Oil filled cloths can spontaneously burn. Modern-day sealers are less hazardous, supply greater protection consequently they're more easy to apply.

Encaustic Tiles Cleaning

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Cement encaustic tiles have become very popular. These cement tiles may have forms and colours hydraulically pressed on the surface and some are also painted by hand.

Like many ceramic tiles, Encaustic tiles are typically straightforward to look after, and require little routine maintenance. However, as they are produced from cement, the tiles are permiable and so are best sealed in order to prevent soil getting trapped in the tile.

Following cleaning, the original colours within the tiles can appear washed out, so we recommend using a colour intensifying sealer to revive the depth of colour.

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