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Restoring Victorian Tiles

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Any sort of Victorian tiles restoration specialist must account for period geometric and encaustic floor tiles found in Victorian and Edwardian halls. The floor tiles are actually unglazed, with all the colours due to the natural colours associated with the clay. If you reside in an older property, you might find a breathtaking Victorian victorian tile passageway beneath your carpet. Most of these floors look used and gimy. Having said that, with alterations in fashion, many corridors are hidden under bitumen, glue deposits, carpet and linoleum, needing a professional deep clean.

Known Victorian Tiles Problems

typical problems with victorian tile floors in London
  • Flat Grubby look originating from many years of wear.
  • Painting spots along with other spills.
  • Rust, grease and oil stains.
  • Damage and holes at the side of the floor, caused by gripper bar nails.
  • Used films of waxes and linseed soaked up to the body of the tiles which has turned black.
  • Dirty and missing cement grout.

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Victorian Tiles Cleaning

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Victorian floors are manufactured from natural clay, for that reason they are pretty soft when compared to hard other ceramic and porcelain tiles. Harsh cleaning pads can remove the surface of a tile. Harsh restoration will easily take away your design from encaustic tiles, harming a floor and ruining your complete look of the floor.

Water is essential in restoration, but when cleaning Victorian floor tiles, use minimal as you possibly can. Victorian tiles tend to be on old porous, unstable sub-floors. So water must not soak through the flooring on the sub-floor. Way too much water can affect a sub-floor, raising individual floor tiles or whole areas of the floor.

Cleaning Minton Tiles

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If a victorian tile floor is really soiled with old sealer residues, you really need to speak to your local certified Victorian tiles cleaning company. The company will have the equipment and most of all the experience to clean soiled floors, without causing long-term harm.

They start by removing the existing finishes. They use an assortment of sealing and coating treatments to strip old [xfield_gluetar] coatings. The coatings removers are left to do their work for 20 minutes or possibly overnight to penetrate and break down the old coatings and adhesives.

Rotary scrubbing equipment with various degrees of cleaning pads and brushes break away the coatings. Then rinse off with clean water and vacuum away the slurry and residues. Then repeat the procedure to remove all residues of this old coatings. Hand pads and brushes are useful get to the final coatings.

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Grouting Victorian Tiles

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Victorian tile floors often suffer a bit of base movement, opening up the grout lines and in some cases, dislodging or cracking individual tiles. 

Any gaps should be filled with grout to help in stabilising the floor. 

Next leave the floor to dry ready to be sealed.

Sealing Victorian Floor Tiles

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Victorian clay tiles were usually with boiled linseed oil and then waxed. To start with, the boiled linseed oil heightens the colours in the , but with time, the linseed oil degrates and mutes the colours. Working with linseed oil can be dangerous when you do not work properly. Oil laden cloths can spontaneously burn. Modern sealers are less risky, give greater protection consequently they are simpler to apply.

Encaustic Tiles Cleaning

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Encaustic cement tiles have become a lot more popular. These cement tiles may have patterns and colours hydraulically pressed onto the surface and some are also painted by hand.

Like many ceramic tiles, Encaustic tiles are generally speaking straight forward to clean, and need minimal routine maintenance. But, because they are made from cement, they are permiable and thus should really be sealed in order to prevent dirt getting trapped in the tile.

Following cleaning, the initial colours inside the floor can seem washed out, so our Professionals put on a colour intensifying sealer to revive the depth of colour.

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