Colour Restored to Bleached Black Slate Tiles in Roehampton Courtyard
Here we have a Slate tiled courtyard at a property in Roehampton SW15 that had been installed 20 years prior and clearly not received much […]
Dirty Kitchen Slate Tiled Floor Deep Cleaned and Sealed Trellech Wye Valley
Late last year I visited a property in the village of Trellech, situated in the Wye Valley to look at renovating a Slate tiled kitchen […]
Cleaning Thick Limescale from Slate Shower Tiles in Penn Buckinghamshire
This is a great example of what we can achieve with very stained Slate Tiles so well worth sharing. The customer was from Penn in […]
Limescale Stained Slate Shower Tiles Renovated in London
My client had rented their property in Bayswater out while they were working abroad for a year or so; on their return they discovered the […]
Removing Paint and Plaster from Slate Tiles in Molesey Middlesex
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 […]
Removing Encrusted Limescale on a Slate Shower Tray in Buckinghamshire
I received this enquiry from a client in High Wycombe who needed the Slate tiled shower floor cleaning. I visited site to view the problem […]
Renovating a Varnished Slate Kitchen Floor in Walton on Thames
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 […]
Riven Green Slate Kitchen Floor Cleaned and sealed in Oldham
The pictures below are of a Dark Green Riven Slate floor that was installed around twenty years ago in the kitchen of a property in […]
Stripping Multiple Coats of Sealer off a Slate Tiled Floor in Birmingham
A client contacted me regarding their slate tiled floor which had only been down a few years and was now looking dull and uninviting. The […]
Slate Shower Tiles Stained with Limescale Renovated in Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Our client contacted Tile Doctor as they were having problems cleaning their Slate tiled ensuite bathroom. We visited the property in nearby Stevenage, a London […]
Restoring the Appearance of a Slate Shower Base
When used to clean natural stone, supermarket products can often cause more harm than good as this recent customer of mine discovered this the hard […]
Deep Cleaning a Neglected Kitchen Slate Tiled Floor
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 […]
Restoring Old Slate Hallway Tiles
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 Tiles Refurbished in Cambridgeshire
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 […]
Dull and Tired Slate Floor Tile Renovation
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 […]
Dealing with Cilit Bang Damaged Slate Tiled Shower Cubicle
One problem we encounter a lot at Tile Doctor is damaged caused to natural stone tiles by unsuitable household cleaning products. This customer, who lives […]
Rejuvenating a Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor
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 […]
Restoring the Appearance of Polished Slate Tiles in Boston
While fantastic to look at, Riven Slate tiles can be particularly difficult to keep clean. The natural unevenness of the stone causes dirt to become […]
Deep Cleaning Soiled Slate Tiles
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 […]
Restoring the appearance of Chinese Slate floor in Dorset
The photographs below are of rough Chinese Slate floor tiles installed at a house in Dorchester; they had not been deep cleaned in a long […]
Getting the Best Our of Black Brazilian Slate Tiles
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 […]
Natural Slate Patio Stripped, Treated for Grout Haze and Sealed
Along with internal tiled floors at residential and commercial properties, we also specialise in the cleaning, restoration and sealing of all types of external tiled […]
Correcting Slate Tiled Floor Installation Issues
These pictures are off a brand new slate floor which the customer assumed would be much darker after she sealed it. Her builder had informed […]
Putting the Colour back Into a Dull Slate Tiled Kitchen Floor
This customer, who lives in Paisley, one of Scotland’s biggest towns – and one with a rich history in the textiles industry – had not […]
Post Installation Cleaning and Sealing of a Slate Floor
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]