Marble cleaning and polishing Gerrards Cross (Buckinghamshire) - Professional Tile and Stone Restoration London

Tile Life are expert marble and limestone restorers. We can deep clean your stone removing ingrained dirt grime and old tile sealing products. After deep cleaning we can resurface your stone and remove scratches, etches and also repair cracks and fill chips etc.

After the above we can begin the polishing process to close the pours and bring your marbles and limestones up to a good attractive shine should you require this look. We aim to work more in Beaconsfield , Gerrards Cross, Chesham and generally South Buckinghamshire

travertine being deep steam cleaned to remove grime and dirt — Here you can see the dirt effortlessly lifts out with our deep cleaning process. First we will apply appropriate cleaning detergents designed to strip out old tile sealers and grease or grime. We use steam power to penetrate deeper into the stone to remove this contamination properly.

Limestone tiled floor deep cleaned and polished in Buckinghamshire

With this limestone floor we applied chemical to the each tile and hand scrubbed everything and all grout lines first to get the dirt out of all the little nooks and crevices in the stone. This limestone was unfilled so it really did hold the dirt that was built up over the past decade. The dirt came out in a satisfying black sludge that was carefully rinsed from the stone.

In the pic above we completely cleaned and polished half the limestone to completion before moving the furniture to do the other half of the area. It really gave a good before and after effect and this client was over the moon :). This home owner was actually considering a new floor altogether but luckily with natural stone you can always remove layers of the surface to restore it!

Here you can see the general difference in the look of the room after the tiles have been professionally cleaned, honed, polished and sealed. Everything was a few shades lighter and the client actually said ” its like someone turned the lights on in my house”

limestone tiles in kitchen cleaned and sealed. Before and after — Here is a view from the kitchen end of the area. Again see how much lighter and brighter everything looks. Granted this was an exception as the tiles where so dirty, however when deep cleaned lighter coloured natural stones always come up well lifting the look of the area up!

Properly sealing limestone tiles

Once cleaned natural stone tiles need to be properly sealed in order to keep them looking great for longer. Sealing limestone and marble is not a case of splashing some tile sealer onto it! It needs to be fully sealed with multiple coats where the sealer is machine buffed into the stone between coats. If the sealer is not conditioned with proper buffing you will not be able to get enough sealer into the stone as it will pool and saturate in more dense areas of the stone causing sticky patches. Buffing allows us to spread the sealer into the pours of the stone to achieve a good saturation level.