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Deep Cleaning and Sealing a Chinese Slate Floor in Harrogate

January 5, 2021
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 |  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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Slate Tiled Floor Renovation after Building Work in North Bucks Kitchen

July 20, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Sealing is a fundamental part of any stone floor installation. If your builder or tiler hasn’t sealed your floor, he’s done […]

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Deep Cleaning Slate Tile and Grout in a Devon Kitchen

June 20, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Honiton is an old market town in East Devon with some interesting history. Most of the main buildings in the centre […]

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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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End of Tennancy Kitchen Floor Cleaning in Berkshire

June 7, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Slate Kitchen Flooring

If you’ve ever rented out a property for a long period of time, you’ll likely to have been concerned, at one […]

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Amazing Transformation of a Slate Kitchen Floor

April 20, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This is an interesting example of a Slate tiled floor that was the unfortunate recipient of a solvent-based topical coating which […]

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Deep Cleaning a Neglected Kitchen Slate Tiled Floor

February 10, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

We always recommend regular maintenance for stone tiled floors, especially in areas of high traffic and high possibility of spillages, such […]

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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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Slate Floor Tiles Refurbished in Cambridgeshire

January 9, 2017
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This wonderful Slate tiled floor at a property near the old village of Duxford had been installed throughout the ground floor […]

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Dull and Tired Slate Floor Tile Renovation

November 10, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This Slate tiled floor at this house in the Pontypool was laid over ten years ago in the kitchen/dining room. The […]

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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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Deep Cleaning Soiled Slate Tiles

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

On rare occasions we encounter extremely dirty tiled floors which have clearly not been cleaned for months, or even years. As […]

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Getting the Best Our of Black Brazilian Slate Tiles

September 7, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Tenuous link I know but I worked on this semi riven Black Brazilian Slate Tiles in the kitchen and dining room […]

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Putting the Colour back Into a Dull Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor

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

This customer, who lives in Paisley, one of Scotland’s biggest towns – and one with a rich history in the textiles […]

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Post Installation Cleaning and Sealing of a Slate Floor

August 1, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

One of the worst examples of bad tiling practice is to leave a newly installed floor unsealed and therefore unprotected. This […]

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Refreshing the Appearance of a Slate Tiled Kitchen

July 28, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This small rough Chinese Slate floor in the kitchen of a house in the village of Cheadle near Stockport in Greater […]

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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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Using Stone Oil To Add Colour To Slate Floor Tiles

May 23, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

These Slate kitchen floor tiles at a property in Oxford were in good physical condition, but had become dull over time […]

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Putting the Lustre back on Slate Tiled Flooring

April 14, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

Slate tiles have been in use for centuries, often chosen for roofing and both interior and exterior flooring due to their […]

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Getting the Best From Slate Flooring

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

This slate floor was installed in the kitchen and adjacent dining area of this house in Shepperton, Middlesex and now as […]

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Dirty Slate Kitchen Floor Deep Cleaned and Resealed

March 16, 2016
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

These photographs of a Slate tiled kitchen floor are from a house in Lochwinnoch in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. […]

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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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Removing Years of Dirt from Slate Kitchen Tiles

December 7, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

I recently visited a client living in the market town of Woodstock in Oxfordshire to rejuvenate a fantastic multi-coloured Slate floor […]

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Slate Kitchen Floor Rejuvenated

November 20, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This floor was installed in the house of a client in the town of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, I was asked if I […]

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Deep Cleaning Dirty Slate Tiles

November 12, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This slate floor was installed in the kitchen of a house in the town of Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire. As the name […]

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