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Victorian Floor Restoration Budby Nottinghamshire

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Here we have a Victorian floor in a famous period property in Budby Nottinghamshire which was in serious need of restoration. Having been trapped beneath carpet for the many years the tiles had become ingrained with dirt, the carpet adhesive had welded itself to the tiles and plenty of paints had soaked into the tile [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Ely Cambridgeshire

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This Victorian tiled hallway in Ely Cambridgeshire was full character locked beneath layers of dirt, glazed with old shellac varnish. Over the years dirt had become entrapped by different oil finishes that had been applied, the largest majority where removed by our eco friendly chemicals; some had soak too far into the tile body. After [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Chesterfield

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Here we have two Victorian floors in Chesterfield that we have restored, a quarry tiled kitchen area and a geometric Victorian hallway with tiles by Campbell Tile & Brick. Firstly the Victorian geometric floor required a lot of work, there were literally hundreds of loose tiles that needed reaffixing, this would have been a much [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Solihull West Midlands

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A Victorian hallway tiled in a basket weave pattern of Minton Hollins tiles in Solihull West Midlands, overall the floor was in a nice solid condition with the odd character crack here and there. We reaffixed any loose tiles that were found before the cleaning process was started. As you may see from the ‘before’ [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Blythe Bridge Staffordshire

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There was an awful lot of oil staining on this Victorian floor restoration project in Blythe Bridge Staffordshire. The floor pattern made good use of some distinctive encaustic tiles along with a good use of colour that lent themselves very well to our colour enhancing sealers. Our first task was to strip away all the [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Kettering Northamptonshire

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Plenty of staining from carpet adhesives and rubber underlays are dotted across this wonderful Victorian encaustic tiled hallway in Kettering Northamptonshire. As usual the natural earth coloured tiles are the worst affected by staining from the solvent adhesives, the less porous harder whites, blues and greens have largely avoided the same level of staining. Around [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Chesterton Cambridgeshire

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A truly beautiful work of art. This original Minton floor in Chesterton Cambridgeshire dating from the 1850′s had a coating of old varnish applied over dirt creating a smoke screen effect that reduced the impact of these beautiful floors and in turn prevented the floor from breathing. The floor consisted of many highly detailed and [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Nuneaton Warwickshire

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These Victorian floor tiles were manufactured Godwin of Hereford and here we see how wonderful they look in the Victorian hallway in Nuneaton Warwickshire. Overall the floor was in a very nice condition with only a few loose tiles that needed re-fixing.

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Victorian Floor Restoration Burton-Upon-Trent

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A very well maintained Victorian encaustic tiled hallway in Burton-Upon-Trent which needed just a few minor repairs along with a deep clean and seal. Over the years the floor had been treated with many different sealers and finishes from famous brands including LTP, HG and Johnson’s and none had produced a satisfaction result.

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Victorian Minton Floor Restoration Ockbrook Derbyshire

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This beautiful Victorian hall floor in Ockbrook Derbyshire was full of damp caused by a fitted carpet and underlay preventing any rising moisture from escaping. As a result this trapped moisture has left lots of water marks and various deeply ingrained stains that could not be removed.

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Victorian Floor Restoration Mansfield Nottingham

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This Victorian hallway floor in Mansfield Nottingham needed a fair amount of repair work to be completed before we could start the cleaning process. The tiles are Ferrolite by Platt’s, some of the hardest tiles you come across in the Victorian floor restoration business, unfortunately this hardness does not prevent them from stains and ingrained [...]

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Victorian Minton Floor Restoration Markeaton Derby

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A simply stunning Victorian Minton tiled floor in Derby, full of vivid colours and encaustic tiles, this really is a wonderful Victorian hallway floor. These are the kind of floors we like, nice small mosaic pieces intricately placed to stunning patterns.

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Victorian Minton Floor Restoration Derby

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This stunning Victorian floor in Derby by Minton Hollins of Stoke is a beautiful example of Victorian craftsmanship and considering the age of the floor, all is in good order.

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Victorian Floor Restoration Congleton Cheshire

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A really old floor in Congleton Cheshire from the Victorian era, which had been covered by carpet for many years. This had effectively prevented the tiles from breathing and encouraging damp to be trapped. The tiles and substrate below were full of moisture and it was months before the floor was even dry enough for [...]

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Victorian Floor Restoration Gedling Nottingham

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Originally trapped under an inch of bitumen damp proofing this Victorian floor in Gedling Nottingham was literally full of stains from the bitumen and linseed oil, not a single tile was untouched.

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Victorian Floor Restoration Leicester

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This Victorian tile floor in the style of a chequer board had seen serious movement with the bedding mortar arcing away from the lime pugging below, creating a large dome in the centre of the floor.

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Minton Floor Restoration Quorn Loughborough

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A wonderful Minton tiled floor in Quorn Loughborough which had seen quite a degree of substrate movement which resulted in a number of cracked tiles that ran from one side of the floor to the other; these tiles needed to be replaced.

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Victorian Tile Restoration Rugby

This Victorian floor in Rugby had seen a lot of wear over the years with quite an array of contaminants absorbed into the tile body.

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Carpet Adhesive on Victorian Floor Tiles

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We often come across various types of adhesive that have been used to glue down grippers, threshold strips, underlay and carpet.

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Victorian Floor Restoration West Bridgford Nottingham

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This Victorian tiled hallway in West Bridgford Nottingham comprises of E. Smith of Coalville tiles and is on the whole in pretty good condition; some lovely encaustic tiles are used within the floor design.

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