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and had this dull LimestoneTiled Floor. Altrincham is a town in Trafford
, Greater Manchester
, England, south of the River Mersey 8 miles southwest of Manchester city centre.
It was a rental house and she wanted to get the floor looking good before new tenants moved in. On the quotation day, she was concerned about couple of acid stains on the limestone, I did a quick tester by removing one of the stains and she booked us in.
For cleaning and polishing we used our rotary machine fitted with Diamond burnishing pads, starting from 400 grit and working all the way up to 3000 grit. We started off with 400 grit, with some water as a lubricant. The first 400 grit removes the old sealer and acid stains off the stone floor. When the whole floor was burnished, then all the soiled water got removed with wet vacuum. Next, we moved on to the Medium 800 grit pad which is less coarse than the 400 grit, but rough enough still to break down layers of ingrained dirt. This got followed up with the application of a Fine 1500 grit pad, which started to smooth down the rough areas of the surface to prepare the floor for a final polish with an even finer burnishing pad later on. After the last pad, the limestone floor got rinsed once more and we left the floor to dry till the next day.
Next day on the arrival, we quickly made sure the limestone tiled floor is completely dry with our damp tester.
When it was completely sure the floor was dry and filled in we used the Very Fine 3000 grit burnishing pad – the last of the four – with very little water as a lubricant to finally achieve a high quality polished finish and then prepared for sealing.
For sealing
we used clear impregnating sealer, which leaves the original floor look and gives no extra sheen. The Clear sealer is normally preferred with lighter floors when people want to keep them light coloured and not add anything extra.
This limestone floor took 2 generous coats of the sealer and the excess got wiped off after each coat with white cotton cloths.
With floor now looking as good as new, customer had a piece of mind that everything is in top condition for tenants to move in.We also informed her in detail about the floor maintenance.
Tags: Commercial Tile Cleaning , Limestone Cleaning , Limestone Polishing , Limestone Sealing , Commercial Cleaning , Business Tile Cleaning , Impregnating Sealer , Livingroom Floor , Grout Cleaning , Natural Stone Maintenance , Altrincham , WA14 , Manchester , Trafford