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floor tiles and grout cleaning job in busy Trafford Centre
Restaurant in Trafford Park, Manchester. In Trafford Centre, visitors have the choice of over 200 stores along three miles of granite and marble
boulevards. Stores range from designer and high fashion favourites, including the first Selfridges outside London, to stylish homewares at Barton Square. The Centre is also home to 60 restaurants, cafes and bars in The Orient and the opulent Great Hall.
We received a call from one of The Orient restaurant managers who explained us the problems they were having with the restaurant floor cleanliness. Biggest issue they had there was the discoloured grout. After a phone call it was clear that I needed to see the floor in person.
On arrival I did a quick cleaning tester on the grout and discovered that this grout was never sealed by the tilers. It is essential to seal
the grout lines after installation as it keeps them from discolouring. After completing a tester, informing the manager what needed doing and explaining we are no strangers to night work, they gave us a go ahead with the work.
For cleaning this beautiful porcelainfloor tiles and grout we used our strong alkaline cleaner. Cleaning product got sprayed on floor and left to bread down the dirt for about 10 minutes, it was essential for the product to dwell into grout lines as the dirt build-up was heavy there. This was followed by scrubbing the grout lines with our specially designed grout brushes, while for corners we had to use our smaller brushes. After grout was scrubbed properly, we used our rotary machine to clean the tiles. After all the cleaning we added some water on floor and removed the soiled water with our wet vacuum and then rinsed the porcelain floor again with clean water. All tiles and grout cleaned we were finished for the day and left the floor to dry till the next day.
When we returned to seal the porcelain floor grout lines, first thing we had to do was making sure all grout was completely dry with our damp testers. As always there were some damp areas which had to be dried out with our heat guns.
For sealing we used impregnating sealer. It is solvent based matt sealer which leaves a matte finish, penetrates in the surface and allows the floor to breathe. Impregnating sealer performs well in wet areas including bathrooms
, busy traffic areas and swimming pool surrounds.
In total this grout took three generous coats of the sealer which got applied by our small grout colouring/sealing brushes. As you can imagine this is quite a time consuming job to go over all the grout lines so many times. After sealer application we had to remove any sealer residue that's gotten on tiles. For removing the sealer from tiles we used our buffing machine fitted with cotton cloth covered soft white pad. As we applied so much sealer on grout lines, polishingoff the sealer excess took us a bit of time but gave a really nice and fresh look to this beautiful porcelain floor to finish it off.
Our customer was very pleased with the work and told if they ever need grout cleaning they will hire us again.
We also gave them all everyday maintenance info needed and offered our maintenance plan for them to keep the floor looking good for years to come.
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