Restoring the Appearance of Slate Flooring in Middlesex
Slate is a popular choice for tiled kitchen floors and when properly maintained looks fantastic, however like all natural stone products without an effective cleaning […]
Using Stone Oil To Add Colour To Slate Floor Tiles
These Slate kitchen floor tiles at a property in Oxford were in good physical condition, but had become dull over time due to heavy usage, […]
Removing Grout Haze from Slate Shower Wall Tiles
A builder had made a real mess of this customer’s new Slate tiled wet room. When installing any new natural stone tiles, it is always […]
Putting the Lustre back on Slate Tiled Flooring
Slate tiles have been in use for centuries, often chosen for roofing and both interior and exterior flooring due to their hard-wearing nature. While the […]
Getting the Best From Slate Flooring
This slate floor was installed in the kitchen and adjacent dining area of this house in Shepperton, Middlesex and now as with all sealed floors […]
Removing Limescale from Slate Bathroom Tiles
Our client in Ravensden had a rough slate tiled floor fitted into her en-suite bathroom approximately six years ago. The tiles were never sealed and […]
Dirty Slate Kitchen Floor Deep Cleaned and Resealed
These photographs of a Slate tiled kitchen floor are from a house in Lochwinnoch in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. You can see that […]
Regular Maintenance of Slate Floors
Natural stone products such as Slate need to be sealed for it to look its best, the sealer brings out the best in the natural […]
Restoring a Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor
These photographs below are of a Slate Tiled Kitchen floor taken at a customer’s house in Henley-on-Thames which, as its name suggests, sits alongside the […]
Removing Years of Dirt from Slate Kitchen Tiles
I recently visited a client living in the market town of Woodstock in Oxfordshire to rejuvenate a fantastic multi-coloured Slate floor that had been hidden […]
Slate Kitchen Floor Rejuvenated
This floor was installed in the house of a client in the town of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, I was asked if I could restore the Slate […]
Deep Cleaning Dirty Slate Tiles
This slate floor was installed in the kitchen of a house in the town of Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire. As the name suggests, Burton-on-Trent sits alongside […]
Restoring the Appearance of a Slate Tiled Floor
Every now and again, I get called to work on tiled floors which have were laid some time ago and not properly maintained in a […]
Revamping Dirty Slate Tiles
The photographs below are from a property in the small village of Mayfield, located within the High Weald civil parish of Mayfield and Five Ashes […]
Cleaning Very Dirty Riven Slate Kitchen Tiles
I was recently contacted by a client who had just moved into a house in Crowborough, a town in East Sussex which by the way […]
Maitaining a Slate Fireplace Hearth
I thought you might find this post interesting as it’s a little unusual. I had arrived at a client’s house in Boars Hill near Oxford […]
Removing Old Coatings From Slate Tiles
These slate tiles had been laid in the kitchen of a farmhouse in the village of Little Hampden around twenty years ago and since that […]
Refreshing a Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor
Pictures below of a slate tiled kitchen floor that I recently maintained at a house in Burton on Trent. The problem was the usual one […]
Deep Cleaning, Sealing a Slate floor
This was a straight forward refresh of a Slate Tiled floor that had been installed in the kitchen of a house the village of Malmesbury. […]
Refreshing A Very Dirty Slate Tiled Floor
This Multi-Coloured Slate tiled floor in the kitchen of a property in Barnard Gate near Witney was in good solid condition with no damage but […]
Deep Cleaning Old Slate Tiles
A customer in Telford recently bought this barn conversion in the village of Ince, Cheshire. The building had Riven Slate floor tiles installed on the […]
Restoring the Appearance of Brazillian Slate Tiles
This beautiful Brazilian Slate tiled floor was installed in the kitchen of a house in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; the slate has been previously sealed with a […]
Putting the life back into Slate Floors
Details below of a tired Slate and Flag Stone floor installed in a house in Cookham, Berkshire; the client was actually the son of an […]
Deep Cleaning Slate Tiles in Glasgow
Slate is a hard-wearing product ideal for floors however it does need a sealer to bring out the best in it and sealers do wear […]
Maintaining Slate Floor Tiles
This customer from Chelwood Gate which is a small village south of East Grinstead contacted me asking for the Slate tiles in their kitchen, utility […]
Restoring Slate Tiles In A Listed Building
This is a 25m2 Slate tiled floor installed in a grade 2 listed coach house in the village of Hemingford Grey on the banks of […]
Restoring Slate Floor Tiles
This Slate Tiled floor belongs to a client who had recently bought an old Oast House in Hastings. They were in the process of restoring […]
Dealing with Very Dirty Slate kitchen tiles
This Shell Slate tiled floor was installed in the kitchen of a house in Lytchett Minster and had not been sealed after its installation over […]
Maintaining Slate Kitchen Tiles
Another example of a tired Slate Tiled floor that was in need of a clean and seal, this time in the industrial town of Corby […]
Maintaining A Slate Staircase
These photographs were taken some time ago however I thought they might be interesting as Glasgow has an interesting mix of architecture and occasionally we […]
Cleaning and Sealing Slate tiles in a Kitchen
These photographs of a Slate tiled floor were taken in the Kitchen of a house in Towcester where the slate was looking rather dull and […]
Deep Cleaning Slate tiles in Cumbria
This property in Ulveston had previously been used as a guest house and was now being refurbished and turned back into a home. The kitchen […]
Removing Grout Haze from Slate Kitchen Tiles
These Slate tiles were installed in the kitchen of a house in Glasgow and as you can see from the photograph below they were looking […]
Maintaining Slate Tiles in Glasgow
The photographs below are from the Kitchen of a house in Glasgow with a Slate tiled floor fitted. The sealer on the slate has started […]
Restoring Slate Tiles in Historic Stratford
This beautiful Brazilian Slate tiled floor was installed in the cellar of a house in Urmston, Manchester; the slate has never been sealed as so […]
Deteriorated Slate Tiled Floor Rejuvinated in Southport
An unusual but attractive combination of semi riven black Slate with white Marble inserts had been installed in the hallway of this residence in the […]
Cleaning and Sealing Slate Tiled Floors
These slate tiles were installed in the back kitchen of a house in the seaside resort town of Bognor Regis, they were in good physical […]
Beautiful Slate Kitchen Cleaned and Sealed
These photographs are from that lovely old period property in the village of Harston near Cambridge, you may recall an earlier post where I worked […]
Combining Sealers for Maximum Effect
These photographs from the hallway of a house in Banbury where old thick slate tiled floor had been laid and the customer was unable to […]
Removing Sealers from Chinese Slate Tiles
I was asked to strip and re-seal these interesting Chinese Slate tiles that were installed in the kitchen floor of a property in Hale Barns, […]
Maintaining Black Welsh Slate
The photographs below are taken from a job in the village of Whilton near Daventry where we were asked to clean and seal a black […]
Slate Tile Maintenance in Windemere
The customer from Windermere called me in to take a look at their Slate tiled kitchen floor which was looking very dirty with ingrained stains […]
Grout Haze Removed from Slate
These mixed milled slate floor tiles were installed in the Kitchen, Hall and toilet of a house in Broadwell, Warwickshire. The Slate was staining easily […]
Stripping Sealer from Slate Tile
This beautiful slate tiled floor installed in the kitchen and hallway of a house in Balham London; I was asked by the owner if we […]
Cleaning Riven Slate Tiles
These Riven Slate tiles at house in Tring Buckinghamshire had been laid five years earlier and the original sealant had worn off especially around the […]
Restoring a Slate Kitchen Floor
This beautiful slate floor installed in the Kitchen of a house in Southampton had tons of character but unfortunately years of use had left it […]
Slate tile maintenance
This was a straightforward black slate tile clean and seal in a large kitchen of a house in Portsmouth, the tile and grout were in […]
Dealing with Limescale on Slate
Recently we were asked to resolve an unusual problem with Limescale deposits on Black Slate floor tiles installed in a WC at a house in […]
Maintaining Chinese Slate tiles
On this page you will find a good selection of photographs taken during the cleaning and sealing of a Chinese Slate tiled floor in the […]
Maitaining a slate wet room
This bathroom in Richmond, Surrey was tiled in Slate on the walls and floor to create a wet room effect. Overtime the old sealer had […]