A delightful Victorian floor in Peterborough that needed our restoration services to look its best. The Victorian floor tiles where originally manufactured by Craven Dunnill and as you can see the floor consists of a varied colour palette and a range of geometric patterns.

Overall the floor was in very good condition and only required the replacement of two victorian handmade tiles and of course our restorative cleaning and sealing service which always brings the life back into these works of art.

The finished restoration shows a satin gloss finish that is very hard wearing and breathable.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

Services used in this restoration
Victorian Tile Cleaning
Victorian Floor Restoration
Replacement Victorian Tiles

Contaminants found on this floor
Varnish
Paint
Linseed Oil

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A very old quarry tile floor in a cottage in Middleton Warwickshire, that had been seen by many of our competitors who failed to impress or show any degree of expert knowledge, hence we were chosen for the project.

The vinyl tiles that covered the whole floor were securely fixed down using a solvent adhesive, much of this adhesive being used to level out any eroded tile faces. You’ll also notice that moisture has tried to escape from the joints between the vinyl tiles, proof that these unglazed tile floors really do need to breath. Unfortunately as a result the tile faces where damaged by the trapping of said rising moisture. You can also see where the solvent adhesive has bleached the tiles, again a very common problem.

As the floor presented a history of rising moisture / damp problems we chose to us a highly breathable sealer that protects the floor from further staining. While this particular sealer doesn’t enhance the colours that much, the breathability is second to none; which was a very important feature.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

Services used in this restoration
Victorian Tile Cleaning

Contaminants found on this floor
Carpet Adhesive
Paint
Linseed Oil

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Trapped beneath a carpet and underlay for many years these Victorian quarries tiles had experienced a large amount of rising damp that had failed to escape due to the carpet. The salt deposits which would normally have been brushed away, had as a result hardened and pitted the tile surface. Naturally it would prove impossible to remove all traces of efflorescence from these period tiles as the residue was so deep.

Our first task was to remove as much of the hardened salt without causing damage to the tiles, then to scrub away any oil sealants and allow the floor to breath. The largest majority of the floors problems have been caused by lack of breathability, so a highly breathable sealer was needed to ensure that the damp issues subsided over time.

The key point was to turn the floor into a robust and usable feature of the house which we achieved by deep cleaning and sealing the floor with the very finest of sealers, which protect the floor from water, oil and dirt and make for an easily maintained floor surface.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

Services used in this restoration
Victorian Tile Cleaning

Contaminants found on this floor
Varnish
Carpet Adhesive
Paint
Linseed Oil

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Here we have three Victorian quarry tiled floors in Leeds that were found beneath cork tiles a few years back. As you can see from the before photos there are a multitude of stains from oils, grease, wax and some water stains from a dogs water bowl. From the colour of the floor it looks as though a cleaning product with a hint of linseed oil has been used to enrich the colours, changing the salmon tiles to a dirt brown colour.

Often when deep cleaning Victorian quarry tiles floors that have seen a lot of traffic, wear and domestic use you unveil marks, stains and often bleached etches that need to be camouflaged as they cannot be removed. This floor had all of the above in numerous areas. The bleached areas are more than likely from the solvent adhesive used to attach the cork tiles or possibly high pH cleaning chemicals.

Firstly we stripped away any accumulation of surface finishes before deep cleaning the whole floor with our biodegradable neutral cleaning products. We achieved a natural low sheen finish by applying our water based breathable impregnating sealer that will provide years of protection to these Victorian quarry tiles.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

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Victorian Tile Cleaning

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This Victorian floor in Wellingborough Northamptonshire had seen plenty of traffic over the years with many of the tiles showing signs of wear and dishing. Evidence of previous restoration attempts by the previous owners were also visible, with bleached spots and splashes from high ph cleaning products.

The first task was to strip away the old finish that had soaked into the tiles. Once removed we were able to get to the ingrained dirt with our neutral cleaning products.

The floor is finished with a hard wearing satin gloss coating which is very low maintenance and breathable.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

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Victorian Tile Cleaning

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Varnish
Paint
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Here we have a very unique Victorian tiled hallway floor in the small village of Haconby Lincolnshire. The geometric floor covered by carpet for many years had absorbed a lot of carpet underlay along with staining from oil and wax coatings.

When these Victorian tiled floors are covered by carpet they often have moisture wicked up through the tiles from the substrate below. This was definitely the case here, especially in the areas below the stairs. Then there is the staining from the underlay, much of this comes away easily when first cleaned, but more often than not deep staining remains within the tile body.

We cleaned this Victorian hallway floor using our eco-friendly neutral cleaning products, stripping away the old linseed oil sealing and wax coatings, then finally sealed with a highly breathable sealer to make for a low maintenance finish.

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As the floor is well over a 100 years old there are naturally going to be stains that cannot be fully removed and once the floor is fully cleaned sometimes there may be the odd artefact of these stains. This is where the colour enhancing properties of our sealers come into play, by boosting the natural clay colours to camouflage and reduce the appearance of any blemishes left after deep cleaning.

The floor was finished with a hard wearing satin gloss with non-slip properties.

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Stourbridge West Midlands, tiles by Craven Dunnill. Covered with a concoction of different floor finishes that had worn, become flaky creating an impression of dirty surface. These coatings would need to be removed if the tiles were to be thoroughly cleaned.

Once the floor polish had been removed we set to removing the trapped dirt and staining with our neutral cleaning products. The floor was then finally sealed with a breathable satin finish with colour enhancing properties.

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A wonderful example of Victorian geometric tiled flooring by Minton Hollins in West Bridgford Nottingham. Overall the floor was in superb condition; very flat and straight. With only a few missing tiles to replace, this project was focussed on deep cleaning and restoring the colours of natural clay colours.

Firstly we needed to remove any old sealers and coatings from the floor, this would enable us to get to the stains and soiling. After using our neutral cleaning products to thoroughly cleaning the Victorian floor tiles, we added a breathable sealer and polish combination to a sating finish.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

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Contaminants
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A superb example of Victorian tiled flooring in Melton Mowbray Leicestershire consisting completely of 1.5″ tiles from Minton Hollins. The floor had a few loose sections but otherwise fully intact with the odd raised area where the substrate had swollen from moisture absorption. The floor looked as though the mopping water had actively trapped excess dirt between applications and paint splatters where quite common.

In order to give this Victorian tiled hallway a complete makeover it was essential that we stripped away all the old polishes and sealers that were present. This would allow us to get to the meat of the soiling and make for cleaner more hygienic floor.

The end result shows the floor with a hard wearing satin gloss finish that enhances the natural clay colours.

If you have a beautiful Victorian floor like this, protect your investment and help return your work of art to its former glory. Our Victorian floor restoration service has been developed over years of experience, fine tuning our chemicals and machinery to produce the very finest restoration results. Click here to get a quotation today.

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Contaminants
Varnish
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