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Black Slate Floor Renovation Glenridding Ullswater

Tired 200 Year Old Black Slate Floor Restored at Ullswater Miners Cottage

March 19, 2023
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 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles

I thought I would share the details of this Black Slate floor renovation we recently completed in Glenridding in Ullswater. Slate is a popular choice […]

Black Slate Kitchen Floor Restoration St Johns Worcester

Failed Sealer Replaced on a Black Slate Kitchen Floor in Worcester

January 31, 2023
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Removing Sealers from Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

I’m not sure what was previously used to seal these Black Slate floor tiles in the kitchen of a property in the St Johns suburb […]

Abused Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor Renovation Molesey

Removing Paint and Plaster from Slate Tiles in Molesey Middlesex

January 17, 2023
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Deep Cleaning Grout, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

This Slate tiled kitchen floor in the town of Molesey had been abused by builders doing a renovation on the kitchen and had not covered […]

Slate Tiled Floor Before After Renovation Walton on Thames

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 to remove the old […]

Multi Coloured Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor After Cleaning and Sealing Sutton Coldfield

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 before Christmas to survey […]

Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor York After Cleaning

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 which is very famous […]

Riven Chinese Slate Floor After Cleaning Shipdham

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

June 4, 2018
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 |  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 happened at our client’s […]

Slate Tiled Kitchen Barnsley After Cleaning

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 West of Barnsley, had […]

Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor After Sealing Spencers Wood

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 to stay that way. […]

Scratched Slate Floor Tiles After Cleaning Weybridge

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 of not protecting its […]

Slate Tiled Floor Thaxted After Cleaning

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 tiles. The sealant acts […]

Slate Kitchen Floor After Cleaning in Milton Keynes

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 something wrong – and […]

Kitchen Slate Tiled Floor Honiton After

Deep Cleaning Slate Tile and Grout in a Devon Kitchen

June 20, 2017
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 |  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 town are Georgian – […]

slate Floor Deep Cleaned and Sealed Ross on Wye Cottage

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 the British tourist industry” […]

Slate Kitchen Floor After Restoration in Windsor

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 point or another, about […]

Slate Floor Gamston Nottingham After Restorative Cleaning

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 had become contaminated over […]

Slate Kitchen floor After Cleaining Sunbury-on-Thames

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 as kitchens. Unfortunately, most […]

African Slate Floor After Cleaning and Sealed in Mickleton

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 to anything else. This […]

Slate Floor Duxford After Cleaning and sealing

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 kitchen, utility room, dining […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning Pontypool

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 floor had ground in […]

Slate Floor Tiles After Grout Colouring in Linwood

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, especially if you live […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning Sealing Gateside

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 you can see from […]

Brazilian Black Slate After Cleaning Sealing Thornton Cleveleys

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 of a house in […]

Slate Floor Treated with stone oil in Paisley

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 industry – had not […]

Slate Floor After Clean and seal grout recolour in Lymm Cheshire

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 is exactly the problem […]

Dishevelled Chinese Rough Slate After Restoration Cheadle

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 Manchester had not had […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning in Twickenham

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 without an effective cleaning […]

Slate Floor Tiles after refresh Oxford

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 due to heavy usage, […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning In Hampton

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 hard-wearing nature. While the […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning In Shepperton

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 with all sealed floors […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning and Sealing in Lochwinnoch

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. You can see that […]

Slate Tiled Floor After Cleaning Henley-on-Thames

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 suggests, sits alongside the […]

Multi Coloured Slate After Cleaning Woodstock

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 that had been hidden […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning and Sealing in Trowbridge

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 could restore the Slate […]

Slate Tiled Floor After Cleaning Burton on Trent

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 suggests, Burton-on-Trent sits alongside […]

Slate floor after cleaning in Mayfield

Revamping Dirty Slate Tiles

September 3, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing 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 […]

Slate floor after cleaning Crowborough

Cleaning Very Dirty Riven Slate Kitchen Tiles

August 31, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Riven Slate, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

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 […]

Slate Tiled Kitchen Farmhouse Floor After Sealing in Little Hampden

Removing Old Coatings From Slate Tiles

May 31, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

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 […]

Slate Floor Malmesbury After Sealing

Deep Cleaning, Sealing a Slate floor

May 15, 2015
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

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. […]

Slate Tile Cleaining Floor Bognor Regis Finish

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 were in good physical […]

Chinese slate floor Hale Barns Cheshire After

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 property in Hale Barns, […]

Slate Tiles After Cleaning in Broadwell

Grout Haze Removed from Slate

November 7, 2013
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Slate Kitchen Flooring

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 […]

Balham Slate Floor Before and After

Stripping Sealer from Slate Tile

October 17, 2013
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 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Removing Sealers from Slate, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

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 […]

Southampton Slate Tiled Floor after Cleaning

Restoring a Slate Kitchen Floor

August 27, 2013
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

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 […]

Black Slate Floor Portsmouth Finished

Slate tile maintenance

August 21, 2013
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring

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 […]

Chinese Slate Tile Lounge After

Maintaining Chinese Slate tiles

August 12, 2013
 |  1 Comment
 |  Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

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 […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning

Cleaning Slate Tiles in Staffordshire

July 24, 2013
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

This slate tiled floor was installed in the Kitchen of a house in the town of Bridgenorth which is in the Severn Valley Staffordshire. The […]

Slate Floor After Cleaning

Slate Tile Cleaning in Staffordshire

July 22, 2013
 |  1 Comment
 |  Black Slate, Cleaning Slate Floors, Restoring Slate Floors, Sealing Slate Tiles, Slate Kitchen Flooring, Slate Tile Maintenance

This slate tiled floor was installed in a Kitchen in Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. The owner of the house felt it was time to get […]

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