Travertine Restoration New Malden London KT3

My client had a Travertine tile floor in need of our Travertine cleaning service. They searched for Travertine Restoration London and came across our Travertine cleaning and restoration page.

Photographs showed a good quality Travertine flooring suffering from:

• Ingrained soil
• Dirty grout lines
• Holes filled with soil
• Cracks across the floor

Cleaning The Travertine Floor Tiles

I started by applying a heavy-duty Travertine cleaner. The cleaner is gel-based and designed to stay liquid for at least 20 minutes. This gives the cleaner time to start softening the soil.

I used a rotary scrubbing machine to agitate the Travertine cleaner into the surface of the floor. The scrubbing action emulsified even more soil.

I removed the dirty slurry with a  water rinse and capture machine. Clean rinse water is sprayed at 800 psi into the surface of the floor. The water rinses away the dirty slurry and the spray reaches into holes that a scrubbing machine cannot reach.

I left the floor to dry ready for the next stage, filling cracks in the tiles.

Travertine Restoration London – Repairing Cracks

As well as cleaning the soil out of the cracks, the cleaning process also removed loose filler that would come away in the coming months.

I filled the cracks with a 2 part Jasmine coloured epoxy filler.

Travertine Tiles Hole Filling

I filled the larger holes in the tiles with fine Jasmine coloured cement grout. I also used the grout to fill areas of lost grout between the tiles.

Once the grout started to dry, I removed the grout residue and left the floor overnight for the grout to dry ready for Sealing.

Travertine Sealing London

The floor was originally sealed with an impregnating sealer. However, I recommended using a Surface sealer. A surface sealer makes the grout repairs easier to clean.

I sealed the Travertine with 6 thin coats of mid-sheen Surface Sealer.

My client was thrilled with the results.

If you are searching for a Travertine restoration service in London, or anywhere else in the UK, please click here to contact Abbey Floor Care. We will be happy to restore your travertine floor to a beautiful, easy to clean finish.

Helpful Information About Restoring Travertine

Travertine is a wonderful and versatile stone, suitable for a wide variety of decorative floors, ranging from rough and rustic to welcoming Old World charms to dazzling High Polished Elegance.

However, with time and use, your traver­tine can get dirty, dull, scuffed, etched, cracked, chipped, or any other damage.

Is your Travertine still clean and sparkling, or is dull, grimy with lost of soil filled holes?

Your floor is one of the first things visitors experience when they arrive at your home— and the impression they get from it matters.

Abbey Floor Care’s professional expertise can help you restore your travertine flooring, not just make it appear better, but make it appear brand new again.

So we understand what a successful restoration and maintenance program requires.

In this article, we discuss the ins and outs of Travertine floor restoration and what every successful restoration needs to include.

Let’s dive in.

What is Travertine Restoration?

Travertine restoration is the process of cleaning, repairing and sealing Travertine stone flooring to keep it attractive and welcoming.

Travertine tiles are processed from Travertine rock formed around hot springs. The quarried rock is converted by stone masons into floor tile, wall cladding countertop, worktop and carvings.

Good Travertine restoration revives a floor’s original color and gives a house a beautiful, pristine floor that they can continue to keep looking beautiful.

It also enhances the safety and hygiene of the floor by removing debris like soils and grit and keeping the property pristine all year long.

Most professional stone floor cleaning companies offer Travertine restoration services. Standard packages usually include deep cleaning and sealing, although most companies tailor their services based on a customer’s needs.

As you think about Travertine cleaning and restoration, you also need to consider ongoing cleaning and maintenance issues.

For example, poor cleaning destroy even the most beautiful landscaping. Because of this, we always recommend that our customers follow an annual maintenance cleaning, in addition to day to day cleaning.

What are the Benefits of Travertine Tile Restoration?

Without planned Travertine restoration, it can be challenging to maintain a Travertine floor – especially a large one.

With that in mind, here are just a few of the benefits of a good Travertine floor cleaning and restoration program:

Clean attractive floor.

No ugly wear areas.

Clean grout lines.

No Soil filled natural holes.

Lower ongoing maintenance costs

Saving time and money for busy homeowners

Wondering who might need Travertine Restoration?

Any home or business with a Travertine floor that has become dull and grimy.

Here are a few areas where Travertine is used in the home:

• Kitchen floors and kitchen counter tops
• Entrance, lounge and dining floors
• Toilet floors, walls and vanity units.
• Shower walls and shower cubicle floors
• Outdoor patio areas.

What Does a Successful Professional Travertine Tile Restoration Program Include?

Most stone restoration companies tailor their services to suit their customer’s needs. Most packages include the a wide range of services:

Stone cleaning. These services remove ingrained soils from the tiles and the grout.

Grout repair. Replacing damaged grout and badly stained grout.

Hole filling. Travertine is not typical sedimentary stone. It is formed near hot springs and has a honeycomb structure, so holes are always likely to appear.

Crack repair. Tiles can crack for a number of reasons, so there is usually a crack or to on most floors.

Damage repair. Travertine is a form of Limestone so scratches can be very visible, showing up as white marks. The damaged areas can be diamond honed to remove the scratch marks.

Honing Floor tiles dulled by wear and poor cleaning can be diamond honed using progressively finer diamond pads and abrasives to create an appealing sheen and smoother finish.

Polishing. A polished finish is created by using water and marble polishing powders after diamond honing to create a deep gloss finish.

Sealing. Floors can be sealed with a high quality natural stone sealer or a topical sealer. The type of sealer depends on the installation, the projected wear and traffic conditions.

Maintenance advice. Daily maintenance, using the correct cleaning products and equipment is essential to maintain the finish on a travertine tile floor. Polished travertine will quickly loose its shine if you use harsh cleaners. The restoration company will advice you on the best materials and equipment to use for your installation.

Ongoing professional maintenance. If you don’t have the time to maintain your travertine, you can schedule planned maintenance visits to help keep your floor in pristine condition.

And more.

How Much Does Professional Restoration Cost?

The answer is “it depends.”

The ultimate cost of your restoration program will depend on the size of your floors, and the services included in the package.

Here are a few of the factors that will affect the cost of restoration:

The time needed to prepare the area. Protecting furnishings and walls from cleaning slurry.

The amount of soiling. Heavy soiled floors and dirty grout lines need more time and effort for the cleaning technicians to remove the soils. Large dogs often bring more soil on the floor.

The size of the floors. Larger areas of natural stone take more time and materials than smaller floors

The number of additional services needed. Hole filling, grout repair and crack and other damage repairs add time and cost to the work.

The finish you are looking for. A Matt finish will cost less than a sheen finish, which costs less than a high shine polished finish.

Most domestic work is costed on a day rate. Most work will take a minimum of 2 days to complete.

The charges for professional travertine floor cleaning and restoration vary throughout the country, but the average cost is around £850.00 per day

While the cost of restoration varies it’s essential to know that restoration teams teams can work with your budget and needs.

Protect Your Floor With Abbey Floor Care’s Stone Floor Restoration Services!

While good professional restoration services will help keep your floors beautiful, even the best cleaning and restoration is only as good as the ongoing maintenance program.

If you want to protect your floor, regular cleaning using the correct cleaners and mops is the only way to do it.

The use of a vacuum cleaner can be very effective in removing dust from Tile floors as well as carpets.

Cleaning products

There are many different types of cleaning product that can be used for cleaning floors. However you should only use the cleaners recommended bot your particular finish.

Let us complement your cleaning efforts and keep your floors in tip top condition!

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