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Restoring Victorian Tiles

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Any Victorian tiles restoration specialist must take into account period encaustic and geometric tiles present in many Victorian and Edwardian passageways. The tiles will be matt and unglazed, with the colours caused by the natural colours from with the clay. If you're in an older property, you could find a stunning Victorian victorian tile hall under your carpet. Most floors look used and grubby. Having said that, with alterations in fashion, many hallways are actually hidden from sight underneath linoleum, carpet, bitumen and glue deposits, needing a professional deep clean.

Widespread Victorian Tiles Problems

typical problems with victorian tile floors in London
  • Worn soiled appearance through years of wear and tear.
  • Paint splatters and also other spills.
  • Oil, grease and rust stains.
  • Damage and holes at the side of the floor, as a result of carpet nails.
  • Old finishes of oil absorbed to the body of the tiles which has turned dark.
  • Grimy and lost grouting.

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Victorian Tiles Cleaning

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Victorian tile floors are produced from natural clay, because of this they're pretty soft when compared to hard other ceramic and porcelain tiles. Abrasive cleaning pads will remove the surface of a tile. Aggressive restoration can get rid of a design off encaustic tiles, harming a floor and ruining a entire look of the floor.

Water is vital in cleaning, nevertheless when cleaning Victorian floor tiles, use only a small amount as possible. Victorian tiles tend to be on old permeable, unstable sub-floors. So water should not soak through to sub-floor. Too much water can affect your sub-floor, raising individual floor tiles or whole regions of the floor.

Cleaning Minton Tiles

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If your victorian tile floor is very dirty, dirty with lots of marks, you really need to make contact with a local specialist Victorian tiles cleaning company. The company has the gear and most significantly the knowledge to revive soiled floors, without producing longlasting harm.

The company will start with taking off all existing finishes. They'll use various coating and sealer treatments to get rid of old [xfield_gluetar] coatings. The coatings removers are left to work for 20 minutes or perhaps overnight to work into and soften the coatings and glues.

Scrubbing equipment with different grades of pads and brushes break away the coatings. Then rinse off with clean water and vacuum away the slurry. Then repeat the procedure to get rid of all residues regarding the old coatings. Hand pads and brushes are helpful get at the remaining coatings.

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Grouting Victorian Tiles

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Victorian tile floors commonly undergo a little base movement, opening up the spaces in between individual tiles and in some cases, dislodging or breaking individual tiles. 

Gaps are best grouted to help stabilise a floor. 

Next leave the floor overnight to dry up ready to be sealed.

Sealing Victorian Floor Tiles

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Originally Victorian tiles were sealed with boiled linseed oil and then waxed. To begin with, the oil warms the colours in the , however in time, the boiled linseed oil degrates and affects the tones. Working with boiled linseed oil is dangerous when you don't use the proper precautions. Cloths can start to burn spontaneously. Modern sealers are much safer, supply better protection and they're easier to apply.

Encaustic Tiles Cleaning

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Encaustic cement tiles are becoming a lot more popular. These cement tiles can have forms and colours hydraulically pressed onto the surface and they can be painted by hand.

Like many ceramic tiles, Encaustic tiles are in general straightforward to look Following, and require little routine maintenance. However, being produced from cement, the tiles are microporous and thus should always be sealed to avoid dirt becoming trapped within the tile.

Following cleaning, the initial colours inside the tiles can seem washed out, so our Professionals put on a colour intensifying sealer to regenerate the the original colour tones.

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