Tile Floor Cleaning and Restoration Services Manchester
Our most popular service is the cleaning, sealing, repair and restoration of all types of tile floor. With our tile floor cleaning and restoration service in Manchester we work with natural stone tiles such as marble, granite and limestone as well as man made tiles such as ceramic, quarry tile and porcelain.
You can find a wealth of information about different floor types on our website, detailing their unique features and nuances. It’s important to identify what type of tile floor you have in order to use the correct cleaning solutions, the wrong cleaning solutions can damage sensitive tiles. Often even floors of the same type require different techniques depending on the specific instance of the material used and its condition. You can be confident that Tile & Stone Medic Manchester will determine the floor type that you have before we decide on the best and most appropriate solutions that should be used.
How we care for your tile floor
After we’ve chosen the best possible cleaning products for your tiles, our tile floor cleaning and restoration service in Manchester will begin with the initial cleaning process. Once applied to the floor, the products are then worked into the floor’s surface using our rotary cleaners. After this, the solution is left to dwell for a brief period of time.
When the solution has dwelled for a suitable time the floor is then washed with our advanced fresh water extractor system to ensure that any remnants of sealant, dirt, debris are removed from the surface. The surface is then thoroughly washed a number of times to ensure that the floor is completely neutralised and free of contaminants and particles. Once the floor is dry, the sealers that are most appropriate for your floor and needs are carefully applied. The sealers we use with our tile floor cleaning and restoration service in Manchester provide a range of finishes and provide long term protection, from impregnating sealers which will not alter the natural look of the tile or stone, to matt, satin or high solid gloss finishes. Tile & Stone Medic Manchester will give you advice on the most appropriate sealer to use for maximum effect on your tile or stone floor.
Advice on cost effective maintenance programmes and products to enhance and maximise the life of your tile floor is available on request. We clean and restore tiled floors in a range of different environments, and we are also highly skilled with other floor types including stone floors, terracotta floors and composites like terrazzo. You can take a look at our commercial floor care service here.
Please get in touch and speak to one of our experienced technicians about our tile floor cleaning and restoration service in Manchester today to discover what we can do for your home or business.
FAQs
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.
Absolutely, we stock a range of high quality sealers which we can use to make your tiles shine like new.
In many cases yes, it’s one of our specialities. We’ll need to take a look at the amount of staining to make a proper assessment.
Call Tile & Stone Medic! It sounds like your grout may be contaminated we frequently fix discoloured grouting.
In many cases we can, although it depends on the type of tile and how serious the damage is. Let us take us a look at your floor and we’ll make an assessment. Please note we can only carry out floor repairs as part of a full deep clean or restoration for your stone floor. Unfortunately, we are not able to attend to carry out repairs in isolation.
Generally yes, depending on how many have become loose and the condition of the subfloor, we can generally restore loose tiles without issue.
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.
