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Details below of another Travertine tiled floor that we re-furbished recently in the kitchen of a house in the popular market town of Market Harborough which is a market town located in southern Leicestershire,the floor was looking ugly (Like it had seen better days a long long time ago) the flat and the colours had become washed out,
It now needed burnishing to strip off the soil areas and bring back the polish; another problem were the natural holes which you find in Travertine had not been filled and were now trapping dirt and proving difficult to clean.
To deal with the ingrained dirt and to remove any surface coatings the floor was cleaned with a dilution of our world class cleaning solution we use for these type of jobs, this is really a strong product normally reserved from stripping sealers and other coatings but it’s also an effective cleaning product so to save time.
We decided to use this first of all to give the floor a thorough wash down and rinse afterwards, the grout was also given a thorough scrub during this challenging work and once that was done the soiled waster extracted the floor was inspected and the holes in the Travertine filled using a special Travertine filler product.
The next very step was to burnishing the entire floor using a set of pads which strip back any surface stubborn dirt from the stone using a coarse diamond encrusted burnishing pad and then building up the finish with a medium, fine and super fine pad until you have restored the polish and appearance.
This process blends the Travertine filler added earlier into the stone so it’s impossible to tell the holes had been filled; I should mention you need to use low amount of water which is used to lubricate the process and in-between each pad the resultant slurry is rinsed away.
On our return the floor was checked to ensure it had dried out using a damp meter in a few different spots, the floor was dry so it was sealed using a tow coats to the sealing solution which is an impregnating sealer that gets into the pores of the stone to prevent dirt from becoming ingrained there; sealing product also enhances the colours in the stone and this works well on Travertine as it brings out the brown colours.
