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Restoring Victorian Floor Tiles

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Any sort of Victorian floor tiles restoration service must account for period encaustic and geometric tiles found in many Victorian and Edwardian entrances. Such floor tiles are actually matt and unglazed, with all the colours resulting from the natural colours from with the clay. If you reside in an older residence, you may find a gorgeous Victorian victorian tile passageway underneath carpet. Most of these floors look used and gimy. Having said that, with changes in fashion, many passageways are actually hidden from sight under carpet, linoleum, bitumen and glue deposits, calling for a professional restoration.

Typical Victorian Tiles Troubles

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  • Dull Grimy look originating from many years of usage.
  • Painting spillages along with other spills.
  • Rust, oil and grease marks.
  • Damage and holes at the edge of the floor, from carpet gripper nails.
  • Old finishes of oil absorbed into the body of the tiles which has turned black.
  • Dirty and missing grout.

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Victorian Tiles Cleaning

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Victorian floors are made of clay, because of this they are comparatively soft compared to hard porcelain and most other ceramic tiles. Coarse restoration pads will take away a surface your tile. Abrasive cleaning will take away your pattern from encaustic floor tiles, harming your floor and ruining your complete look of the floor.

Water is essential in cleaning, nevertheless when restoration Victorian tiles, use minimal as possible. Victorian floor tiles in many cases are on old porous, unstable sub-floors. So water must not soak through to sub-floor. Way too much water can affect a sub-floor, lifting individual tiles or whole areas of a floor.

Cleaning Minton Tiles

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If your victorian tile floor is really dirty, dirty with lots of marks, you should contact a local expert Victorian tiles cleaning company. They will have the machines and most of all the knowledge to revive heavily soiled floors, without producing long-term damage.

The company will begin by taking off the old sealers. They'll use a variety of coating and sealer removers to get rid of old [xfield_gluetar] coatings. The coatings removers are left to act for twenty minutes or perhaps overnight to work into and soften the old coatings and glues.

Scrubbing equipment with various levels of cleaning pads and brushes split up the residues. Then rinse off with water and vacuum off the slurry. Then repeat the process to remove all residues for the old coatings. Hand scrubing pads and brushes are beneficial get to the remaining coatings.

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Grouting Victorian Tiles

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Victorian tile floors frequently suffer a bit of shifting, opening up the spaces between individual tiles and perhaps, dislodging or damaging tiles. 

Gaps between tiles should be grouted to help stabilise a floor. 

Next allow 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 boosts the colours in the , however eventually, the linseed oil starts to degrade and affects the tones. Working with linseed oil can be risky when you don't use the proper precautions. Oil laden cloths can start to burn spontaneously. Modern sealers are less risky, offer far better protection and they are more simple to apply.

Encaustic Tiles Cleaning

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Cement encaustic tiles are becoming much more popular. These cement tiles might have forms and colours mechanically pressed onto the surface and they can be hand painted.

Like many ceramic tiles, Encaustic tiles are generally simple to look Upon, and require little routine maintenance. But, because they are made of cement, they're microporous and so should always be sealed in order to prevent soil getting trapped within the tile.

Following cleaning, the original colours in the tiles can seem washed-out, so our Professionals put on a colour intensifying sealer to bring back the the original colours.

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