Marble Floor Cleaning & Restoration Lancashire
Marble is a ‘relative’ of limestone. Available in many colours, marble is used by people around the world due to its natural beauty. Tile & Stone Medic’s marble floor cleaning and restoration service in Lancashire includes everything from marble polishing to full restoration, and long-term maintenance. As experienced marble cleaner and sealer experts, we will ensure your valued marble will last for many years to come. Our service is not only suitable for floors; if you’re looking for a professional marble fireplace cleaner, we can help. Contact us today for a free quote.
Sometimes it might seem like there is no solution to the damage sustained by marble surfaces, but specialist marble polishing and honing can work wonders. Honing is a satin smooth surface with little light reflection, whereas a polished finish has a glossy surface that reflects light. This, in turn, dramatically emphasises the colours and markings on the marble. Marble polishing is one of the best ways to revitalise marble surfaces, and we’re happy to offer this service alongside our full restoration services.
Common issues when cleaning marble floors
Cleaning marble floors is one of our most common jobs, so we really have seen it all. Most often, marble suffers from a gradual dulling of its surface due to the buildup of microabrasions. This can be caused by accumulated dirt and debris, or simply by regular footfall. When marble is worn in this way, it can be particularly noticeable if the surface has previously been polished. Marble is porous, easily stained and can be etched by acids. Spilling fruit juices, carbonated drinks, or other acidic items will remove the finished surface from your marble. Our marble floor cleaning and restoration service in Lancashire will identify whatever issues you’re having with your flooring and utilise our many years of experience to bring it back to a dazzling finish. Our marble polishing service will bring back a wonderful shine, or if you prefer, we can polish marble to a matte finish instead.
Our solution
Looking for a professional marble cleaner and sealer? Our extensive experience cleaning marble means we’ll quickly identify the cause of the problem, the extent of the damage and the most appropriate solution. We offer a number of solutions for repairing cracked and badly scratched marble. Whilst we can’t promise a 100% invisible repair, in most cases we’ll be able to reverse the majority of visible damage or wear.
- Tile & Stone Medic’s marble floor cleaning and restoration service in Lancashire will not only clean and seal marble. We also use a specialist marble polishing and honing technique to remove scratches and etching marks.
- Our process is simple and safe, and makes no mess at all.
- We also specialise in many other types of hard floors, including stone floor cleaning and travertine floor cleaning.
FAQs: Marble Cleaning
The process we carry out will depend on your specific floor and the use that it gets. There will be variations for different materials and the finish that you wish to achieve. The process will also be impacted by the full scale of work that we carry out, for example which types of cleaning and restoration are being performed. It is not unusual to apply several layers of sealant if this is necessary and appropriate.
Firstly, a floor should always be sealed when it is first laid. Get in touch with us straight away if this hasn’t been carried out already. It will also need periodic sealing in order to protect the floor on an ongoing basis. How often sealing is required depends on a number of factors such as the specific material used for your flooring and the kind of use it has to survive. For example, a bathroom with natural tiles that is frequently exposed to water may require sealing more often than porcelain tiles in a kitchen. Frequent maintenance, such as sweeping and hoovering up the dust and grit that erodes floors when trodden on can help. Once the sealant is worn away, not only will scratches be more likely, the risk of staining or permanent damage from liquids is drastically increased as there is no protective layer to prevent absorption. If in doubt get in touch with our team of friendly technicians who can discuss your needs.
We have a range of high quality Faber products which will help protect your floors from damage. As every type of floor is different and has myriad uses, we will consult with you to work out the best way to protect your investment. We can apply topical sealants which form a protective layer on top of the floor, or if needed an impregnating sealant, which will be partially absorbed into the stone or tiles. There are many variations of these sealants and as each floor type has unique characteristics and vulnerabilities we can work with you to find and apply the the best kind of protection.
Absolutely. If this was not carried out by those who fitted the floor get in touch immediately to ensure that the appropriate protection can be applied as promptly as possible. We would recommend that this is carried out once the flooring is in place as this means the grout, which is generally more porous, will also be protected.
We apply a sealer to a floor in order to protect it. Different types of floor, both manmade and natural stone, are vulnerable to different sorts of damage. They can all be harmed by chemicals to a certain degree, even by the acid in food and drink spillages, as they will be very slightly porous. As well as this, they can be worn away by physical damage. Even foot traffic can have a big impact if dust or grit has built up on the floor, since it increases abrasions. A sealant will reduce the chance of a spill becoming a stain by reducing the floor’s ability to absorb liquids. It can also help protect the appearance of the floor by forming a protective barrier. A sealant won’t prevent all damage and it will still wear away over time, but it will help your floors last longer, helping protect your investment. Sealants will even help protect your floor from UV radiation which can lead to fading over the lifespan of a high value stone or tiled floor. We can consult with you to find the best sealant for your floor and the type of use it gets to make sure it receives the best form of protection.
Yes certainly, this is one of our key services.
No, typically these veins run all the way through marble, so removing abrasions from the surface has little to no effect on the amount of veins in the stone.
Yes, if you’re looking for a less reflective or matt finish we can take care of this.
Absolutely! This is one of the most common issues with marble since installations are typically taken to a high level of sheen. Our rotary polishers will have no problem restoring the shine.
Whilst we may use specialist chemicals in the course of our work, we can assure you that by the time we leave all residues will be gone and your tile or stone flooring will be perfectly safe for everyone to use. We work to extremely high standards of health and safety, conducting proper risk assessments where appropriate and never putting you or anyone else in danger.
We always work in the most considerate way possible. Work will be tailored to your needs and will fit around your schedule where possible. We avoid bringing loud or bulky machinery into your home and when a job is complete we thoroughly clean up after ourselves to leave your space looking as tidy as it did when we arrived.
