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Deep Cleaning and Sealing a Chinese Slate Floor in Harrogate

January 5, 2021
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Removing Sealers from Slate, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

The pictures above are of a 12 metre squared Chinese slate floor in the kitchen of a property in Harrogate which […]

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Italian Slate Kitchen Slate Renovated in Epsom

October 10, 2020
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

I thought you might be interested to know that I have numerous clients that I visit every year to maintain the […]

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Brazilian Slate Floor Renovated in Harrogate

August 2, 2020
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Pictured below is a Slate tiled kitchen floor that had been installed in the kitchen of a property in Harrogate around […]

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Stripping Sealers off a Stunning Indian Slate Tiled Kichen Floor in Reading

March 2, 2020
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Removing Sealers from Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Details below of a very heavily soiled Indian Slate floor at a property in the small village of Bradfield near Reading. […]

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Renovating a Varnished Slate Kitchen Floor in Walton on Thames

February 19, 2020
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Our client had previously employed another company to tackle this large Slate floor in Walton on Thames but they hadn’t managed […]

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Riven Green Slate Kitchen Floor Cleaned and sealed in Oldham

January 21, 2020
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Sealing Slate Tiles

The pictures below are of a Dark Green Riven Slate floor that was installed around twenty years ago in the kitchen […]

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Dealing with Limescale Staining on Slate Shower Tiles in Middlesex

November 30, 2019
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tiled Shower Cubicles

The client was thinking of having their riven Slate tiled bathroom re-tiled but before doing so they thought to give Tile […]

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Removing Multiple Coats of Sealer from a Dull Slate in South Yorkshire

November 25, 2019
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

The new owners of this property in Darfield were disappointed with the state of the Slate tiled kitchen floor which looked […]

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Renovating Black Slate Floor Tiles in a Lancaster Kitchen

November 15, 2019
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 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

The photographs below are of a dull and dirty Black Slate floor that I was recently asked to renovate at a […]

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Multi-Coloured Slate Floor Cleaned and Sealed in Middlesex

October 31, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Except for general cleaning this multi-coloured slate floor had not been professionally cleaned since installation eleven years prior. Any sealer that […]

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Deep Cleaning and Sealing Riven Slate Flooring in Leeds

October 22, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles

The pictures below are of a Riven Slate floor at a house in in the Leeds suburb of Horsforth which had […]

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Deep Cleaning Chinese Slate Tiles in Monmouthshire

October 17, 2019
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

The tiles pictured are Chinese Slate which were laid in the Kitchen of a house in Chepstow around nine years ago. […]

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Multi-Coloured Slate Floor Renovated in Camberley Surrey

August 22, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Riven Slate, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This was a relatively straightforward job renovating a multi-coloured Slate floor in the kitchen and adjacent dining area of a house […]

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Slate Floor with Granite Inlay Renovated in Harrogate

August 15, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

I was recently asked to survey an unusual stone floor at a house in in Harrogate comprising of Slate inlaid with […]

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Bolivian Black Slate Floor Renovation in Blackpool

July 31, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This kitchen floor in Blackpool was laid 20 years prior and comprised of Bolivian Black Slate inlaid with White Ceramic Tozzettos. […]

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Revealing the Copper Tones in Slate Tiles in Oxfordshire

June 18, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles

This customer had recently moved into a property in Abingdon and got in touch about having the coloured Slate floor tiles […]

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Tired Kitchen Slate Floor Given New Life in High Wycombe

June 7, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This Customer moved into a property in High Wycombe around a year or so ago and the Black Slate floor in […]

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Renovating a Dull Black Slate Floor in Bentham, Lancashire

May 5, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This is a Semi Riven Black Slate floor which had been installed throughout much of the downstairs floor at a property […]

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Renovating Green Slate Flooring in Hastings, East Sussex

April 16, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles

I worked on this beautiful Green Slate tiled floor just before Christmas but I’ve been so busy with other jobs I’ve […]

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Multi-Coloured Slate Kitchen Floor Renovation in Sutton Coldfield, Staffordshire

April 10, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

I recently completed the renovation of a Multi-Coloured Slate tiled kitchen floor in Sutton Coldfield. I was actually at the property […]

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Removing Varnish from Flood Damaged Slate Tiles in Calderdale

March 28, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

I was contacted by the owners of a cottage in the small village of Cragg Vale who had unfortunately suffered a […]

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Renovating Multi Coloured Riven Slate Floor in Ravensthorpe

 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Removing Sealers from Slate, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles

I recently visited a customer living in the village of Ravensthorpe, just outside Northampton to rejuvenate a 15-year-old multi coloured Chinese […]

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Stripping Multiple Coats of Sealer off a Slate Tiled Floor in Birmingham

March 20, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Slate Kitchen Flooring

A client contacted me regarding their slate tiled floor which had only been down a few years and was now looking […]

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Re-grouting a large Slate Tiled floor in Oxted, East-Surrey

February 27, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

This was a very large natural slate floor installed throughout much of the ground floor at a property in East Surrey […]

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Putting new life into large format Slate tiles in Blackwood, Caerphilly

February 12, 2019
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

A client of ours recently moved into a relatively new property in the town of Blackwood where the black slate floor […]

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Slate Shower Tiles Stained with Limescale Renovated in Stevenage, Hertfordshire

November 1, 2018
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Slate Tiled Shower Cubicles

Our client contacted Tile Doctor as they were having problems cleaning their Slate tiled ensuite bathroom. We visited the property in […]

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Transforming Black Riven Slate in High Bentham, Lancashire

September 21, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

We were asked to come and advise a customer regarding their stone floor which the customer was struggling to keep clean. […]

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Enhancing Colour in a Chinese Slate Floor – Cirencester

September 10, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles

This client from Cirencester got in contact about his Slate Tiled hallway floor which was now looking dull following renovations to […]

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Renovating Scratched Slate Floor Tiles in York

September 7, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

The photographs below are of a Slate Tiled floor in a house in York, a walled city in North West Yorkshire […]

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Renovating a Limescale Stained Slate Shower in Oxshott, West-Surrey

August 6, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Slate Tiled Shower Cubicles

In the south east of England, we suffer from hard water which as many of you have experienced can calcify on […]

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Incorrectly Sealed Copper Slate Floor Resealed in Heysham

July 2, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Sealing Slate Tiles

This customer in the coastal village of Heysham had recently had these beautiful Copper Slate Tiles laid by a builder who […]

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Renovating a Paint Stained Slate Floor in Hampton, Middlesex

June 28, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles

It’s surprising how often I get asked to look at tiled floors stained with paint and other chemicals because of careless […]

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Renovating Riven Chinese Slate Tiles in a Water Damaged Kitchen, Shipdham

June 4, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Slow leaking underfloor pipes are guaranteed to wreck the look of an expensive tiled floor and this is exactly what had […]

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Restoring Neglected Multi-Coloured Slate Kitchen Floor Near Barnsley

April 30, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

The owner of this house in Silkstone, which is a village situated in the foothills of the Pennines a few miles […]

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Reclaimed Slate Floor Renovation near Norwich

April 12, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

When the old Rowntree Mackintosh sweet factory at Chapelfield in Norwich was closed down and eventually demolished, our client acquired a […]

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Slate Tiled Hallway Repaired and Restored following Central Heating Installation in Lancashire

February 16, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Rough Slate is notorious for homeowners to maintain as dirt can quickly become trapped in the rough surfaces. The example on […]

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Renovating a Dull and Scratched Slate Floor in an East Sussex Conservatory

February 8, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

This Slate tiled floor had been installed in the conservatory of a property in Eastbourne, which I’m sure your aware is […]

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Ruined Slate Tiled Floor Fully Restored in Bexhill

January 22, 2018
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

The photos below show what can only be described as a botched installation of a black Slate tiled living room floor […]

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Builds Clean for New Slate Floor at Farnham Barn Conversion

December 13, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Converting a barn into a property can be an exciting project, but it certainly doesn’t come without a range of challenges. […]

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Semi-Riven Multicoloured Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor Cleaned and Sealed

November 27, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Slate tiles do look incredible but like any natural stone you really need to maintain the sealer if you want them […]

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Grey Brazilian Slate Tiles Renovated in Bedfordshire

November 15, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Brazilian Slate is amongst some of the highest quality available in the world and the grey variant is particularly striking when […]

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Old Slate Floor Restored in Cumbrian Cottage

November 2, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Stone and Tiled floors will degrade over time so much that they can appear to be simply beyond being restoration. It […]

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Getting the Best from Slate Patio Pavers in Berkshire

November 1, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Patio Renovation

Details below of a job I completed earlier in the summer in the Berkshire town of Thatcham which is just east […]

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Removing Sticky Coatings from Slate Floor Tiles

October 20, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

A recent customer of mine had a Slate tiled conservatory that had not been used in a long time since it […]

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Transforming Multi-Coloured Slate Floors in Hertfordshire

October 18, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Slate is a very popular choice for floor tiles due to it being hard wearing with a relatively low porosity making […]

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Putting new life into a Welsh Slate Kitchen floor in Derbyshire

October 4, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This post comes from a lovely house in Ticknall, Derbyshire where the owner had installed a Welsh Slate Tiled Floor in […]

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Restoring Bleach Damaged Slate Pool Tiles In in Northamptonshire

September 28, 2017
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

This very nice house in a village near Oundle in Northamptonshire features something we don’t see too often in residential property […]

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Renovating a Slate Tiled Shower Cubicle in Oxfordshire

August 24, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tiled Shower Cubicles

Just Southwest of Bicester, Kidlington is one of the largest villages in England with a population of nearly 14,000. There are […]

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Dealing with Scratched Slate Floor Tiles in a Surrey Kitchen

August 14, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This property owner in Weybridge recently had a new fridge delivered by a well-known electrical retailer that has an unusual policy […]

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Maintaing Slate Tiled Flooring at a Public House in Leamington Spa

August 7, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

The Drawing Board is a Gastropub and bar in Leamington Spa with a fantastic homely aesthetic. Leamington Spa itself is a […]

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