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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Restoring the Appearance of a Beautiful Slate Kitchen Floor in Essex

August 3, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

The single most important thing you need to do after having a new natural stone floor installed is to seal the […]

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Restoring Discoloured Slate Shower Tiles in Oxfordshire

July 11, 2017
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Slate Tiled Shower Cubicles

This house in Wantage was on the market to be sold but many potential buyers had been put off by the […]

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Riven Slate Patio Left Covered in Grout Smears By Northans Builder Restored

June 29, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Slate Patio Renovation

This customer, who lives in Wollaston, a small village in Northamptonshire, called me to look at the unfortunate condition of her […]

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Slate Kitchen Floor Restored at Wye Valley Cottage

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

Ross-on-Wye, an area located in South Hertfordshire and close to the Monmouthshire border in Wales, is known as the “birthplace of […]

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Restoring Green Westmorland Slate Tiles in Yorkshire

April 19, 2017
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

It’s not too common that you find two very different natural stone tiled floors in the same property. However, this is […]

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Restoring the Appearance of a Slate Shower Base

March 8, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tiled Shower Cubicles

When used to clean natural stone, supermarket products can often cause more harm than good as this recent customer of mine […]

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Restoring Old Slate Hallway Tiles

January 24, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

African Slate has a striking realism to it and its natural mix of light and dark shades is difficult to compare […]

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Restoring Very Old and Stained State Flagstones

December 15, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Every so often we come across exceptionally old tiles that are in desperate need of restoration. These Slate flagstones at a […]

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Rejuvenating a Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor

November 9, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Kitchen tiles are never the easiest to keep clean. Food and drink spillages are likely to happen on a daily basis, […]

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Restoring the Appearance of Polished Slate Tiles in Boston

November 6, 2016
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

While fantastic to look at, Riven Slate tiles can be particularly difficult to keep clean. The natural unevenness of the stone […]

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Restoring the appearance of Chinese Slate floor in Dorset

September 30, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

The photographs below are of rough Chinese Slate floor tiles installed at a house in Dorchester; they had not been deep […]

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Restoring the Appearance of Slate Flooring in Middlesex

May 26, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Slate is a popular choice for tiled kitchen floors and when properly maintained looks fantastic, however like all natural stone products […]

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Restoring a Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor

January 17, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

These photographs below are of a Slate Tiled Kitchen floor taken at a customer’s house in Henley-on-Thames which, as its name […]

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Restoring the Appearance of a Slate Tiled Floor

October 5, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

Every now and again, I get called to work on tiled floors which have were laid some time ago and not […]

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Refreshing A Very Dirty Slate Tiled Floor

March 26, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Multi-Coloured Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This Multi-Coloured Slate tiled floor in the kitchen of a property in Barnard Gate near Witney was in good solid condition […]

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Deep Cleaning Old Slate Tiles

March 5, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

A customer in Telford recently bought this barn conversion in the village of Ince, Cheshire. The building had Riven Slate floor […]

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Restoring the Appearance of Brazillian Slate Tiles

February 4, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This beautiful Brazilian Slate tiled floor was installed in the kitchen of a house in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; the slate has been […]

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Putting the life back into Slate Floors

November 18, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Slate Tile Maintenance

Details below of a tired Slate and Flag Stone floor installed in a house in Cookham, Berkshire; the client was actually […]

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Maintaining Slate Floor Tiles

October 28, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This customer from Chelwood Gate which is a small village south of East Grinstead contacted me asking for the Slate tiles […]

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Restoring Slate Tiles In A Listed Building

October 27, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This is a 25m2 Slate tiled floor installed in a grade 2 listed coach house in the village of Hemingford Grey […]

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Restoring Slate Floor Tiles

October 16, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This Slate Tiled floor belongs to a client who had recently bought an old Oast House in Hastings. They were in […]

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Dealing with Very Dirty Slate kitchen tiles

August 30, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

This Shell Slate tiled floor was installed in the kitchen of a house in Lytchett Minster and had not been sealed […]

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Maintaining Slate Kitchen Tiles

August 20, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

Another example of a tired Slate Tiled floor that was in need of a clean and seal, this time in the […]

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Cleaning and Sealing Slate tiles in a Kitchen

July 9, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

These photographs of a Slate tiled floor were taken in the Kitchen of a house in Towcester where the slate was […]

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Deep Cleaning Slate tiles in Cumbria

May 25, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This property in Ulveston had previously been used as a guest house and was now being refurbished and turned back into […]

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Removing Grout Haze from Slate Kitchen Tiles

April 27, 2014
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

These Slate tiles were installed in the kitchen of a house in Glasgow and as you can see from the photograph […]

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Maintaining Slate Tiles in Glasgow

April 17, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

The photographs below are from the Kitchen of a house in Glasgow with a Slate tiled floor fitted. The sealer on […]

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Restoring Slate Tiles in Historic Stratford

April 15, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

This beautiful Brazilian Slate tiled floor was installed in the cellar of a house in Urmston, Manchester; the slate has never […]

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Deteriorated Slate Tiled Floor Rejuvinated in Southport

April 2, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

An unusual but attractive combination of semi riven black Slate with white Marble inserts had been installed in the hallway of […]

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Cleaning and Sealing Slate Tiled Floors

March 15, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Slate Kitchen Flooring

These slate tiles were installed in the back kitchen of a house in the seaside resort town of Bognor Regis, they […]

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Beautiful Slate Kitchen Cleaned and Sealed

March 4, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

These photographs are from that lovely old period property in the village of Harston near Cambridge, you may recall an earlier […]

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Combining Sealers for Maximum Effect

February 2, 2014
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Tile Maintenance

These photographs from the hallway of a house in Banbury where old thick slate tiled floor had been laid and the […]

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Removing Sealers from Chinese Slate Tiles

January 29, 2014
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

I was asked to strip and re-seal these interesting Chinese Slate tiles that were installed in the kitchen floor of a […]

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