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The exact information right below of another Travertine tiled floor that we cleaned & restored by us recently, in the kitchen of a house in medium sized town of Loughborough which is a not far from Leicester.
The floor was looking past it’s best (Like it had seen better a decades ago) and flat and the colours had become washed out, it now needed special product 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 take real attention to detail extra care 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 made the choice 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 stage was to burnish 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, then building up the finish with a medium, fine and super fine pad until you have restored the polish and appearance.
This way blends the Travertine filler added earlier into the stone so it’s impossible to tell the holes had been filled (holes are so small impossible to see with naked eye); 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, once this is done the floor is given a thorough rinse which is then extracted and then left to dry overnight.
On our return to this challenging yet rewarding job, to the 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; pro max also enhances the colours in the stone and this works well on Travertine as it brings out the brown colours.
