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Victorian Floor Restoration Newark Nottinghamshire

Victorian Floor Restoration — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:04:59 +0000

A beautiful Minton floor in Newark, Nottinghamshire from the Victorian era. In this Victorian Floor Restoration we needed to remove loose and damaged tiles and manufacture new encaustic tiles in order to bring out the floors full potential.

Work Detail
Our dedicated team of Victorian floor restorers expertly removed the damaged tiles from the floor creating very little dirt, dust or disruption ready to accept the replacement tiles. Outside our professional diamond tile cutting machine was used to precisely cut both reclaimed original tiles and handmade replicas to imperial sizes. A lot of work went into to sourcing accurate matches to ensure the very best blend, this included a sympathetically coloured grout and the manufacture of new encaustic tiles.

The final phase of this Victorian floor restoration in Newark was to clean and seal the floor using our specialised restorative cleaning process. Using only ECO friendly chemical solutions we were able to strip away years of dirt, debris and old sealers. Once dried we applied our unique breathable stain sealer, a sealer that not only enhances the natural colour of the clay tiles but also protects the floor from abrasion, soiling, staining.

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

Victorian Minton Church Floor Restoration Sudbury Derbyshire

Victorian Floor Restoration — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:14:35 +0000

A beautiful Victorian Minton Church Floor in Sudbury Derbyshire. There was some floor heaving on the main Nave walkway caused by heating pipes running beneath the floor. This had caused the old lime substrate to expand and push itself away from the support structures.

We removed the affected tiles and the substrate below, reinstated a more flexible strengthened and heat tolerant substrate before relaying the original tiles with reclaimed originals where necessary.

The marble altar had become loose and unsafe, the surface has also become dull and lost a lot of its sparkle. Again we strengthened the substrate before relaying the original tiles and diamond polished the marble and protected the area with a hard wearing sealer.

The chancel floor was treated to a real deep cleaning with our ECO friendly chemicals and sealed with our breathable sealer and polish combination.

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
Carpet Adhesive
Paint
Linseed Oil

Victorian Minton Floor Restoration Derby

Victorian Floor Restoration — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:34:06 +0000

This Victorian Minton tiled floor in Derby had seen a lot of traffic and substrate movement over the years, the majority of which had been caused by rising moisture from the areas surround the cellar.

As you can see from the original photos the floor runs in various directions, the pattern has shifted as a result of the substrate movement. The damaged floor areas consist largely of damaged unsalvageable tiles and the floor had an overall dirty appearance.

Using a combination of reclaimed original tiles and handmade replicas we removed the old substrate and relaid the tiles using the best overall flow, naturally some compromises needed to be made.

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
Carpet Adhesive
Paint
Linseed Oil

Victorian Minton Floor Restoration Tewkesbury

Victorian Floor Restoration — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:16:14 +0000

Victorian Minton Floor Restoration Tewkesbury

A wonderful Victorian tiled hallway full of beautiful encaustic tiles, great colours and an interesting border design. Unfortunately the floor was covered with a very old varnish applied over unclean tiles, the varnish had tarnished over time and in turn obscured the floors natural colours and prevented the thorough cleaning of the floor.

The floor was never going to look its best as long as this varnish remained. This was a very tough varnish to remove, mostly down the amount that had been applied over the years, armour plating would be a better term.

Once the varnish was removed we were able to deep clean the floor and apply a colour enhancing seal.

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
Paint
Linseed Oil

Victorian Floor Restoration Alvaston Derby

Victorian Floor Restoration — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:26:45 +0000

This Victorian floor in Alvaston Derby was covered with a smoke screen of old wood varnish was literally draining every ounce of life from the tiles. The problem with varnish is that is designed for covering timber and has a hard time lasting on tiles, usually flaking away in patches. The ingredients stain the lighter coloured tiles and make for a patchy appearance.

Firstly we stripped away the surface varnish before tackling the ingrained dirt. We chose a hard wearing satin gloss finish which not only enhances the Victorian floor tiles but also adds significant protection.

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

Victorian Floor Restoration Blythe Bridge Staffordshire

Victorian Floor Restoration — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:00:27 +0000

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 previous coating or sealers, this would allow us to reach the real dirt and staining.

Once the floor was deep cleaned, a breathable impregnating sealer was applied before finally finish off with a hard wearing satin polish; breathable of course.

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

Contaminants found on this floor
Varnish
Carpet Adhesive
Paint
Linseed Oil

Victorian Floor Restoration Kettering Northamptonshire

Victorian Floor Restoration — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:11:15 +0000

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 the edges there was evidence of plasterers and builders mess ground into the border tiles.

We started the restoration of this Kettering Victorian tiled hallway by first stripping away all traces of polishes, waxes and oils before tackling the stains and dirt contaminants that were ground in.

The floor took on a new light once sealed with our premium breathable polish, which not only helps protect the floor from staining and scratches but also makes for a very low maintenance floor.

Victorian Floor Restoration Chesterton Cambridgeshire

Victorian Floor Restoration — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:08:24 +0000

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 intricate encaustic tiles along with some larger than the norm fields at 7 1/4″.

The first task was to remove all that horrid varnish that had discoloured, then remove the underlying dirt. We enhanced the colours by using our unique breathable sealers and a satin 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.

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

Contaminants found on this floor
Varnish
Paint
Linseed Oil

Victorian Floor Restoration Nuneaton Warwickshire

Victorian Floor Restoration — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:47:46 +0000

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.

The floor already had an old oil and wax finish which had discoloured overtime; they always do. So this was the first thing to be removed, unfortunately some of the old oil had discoloured in the tile body leaving a few minor stains.

After a thorough deep cleaning of these Victorian floor tiles we sealed them with breathable sealers both of an impregnating and topical type, which not only help protect the tiles from further staining, but also increase their colour depth and make for a much easier cleaning experience.

The outside was also sealed with a hard wearing UV resistant impregnating sealer that enhances the Victorian tile colours whilst protecting them from staining. Naturally this was also a breathable sealer suitable for period tiling.

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

Contaminants found on this floor
Paint
Linseed Oil

Victorian Floor Restoration Burton-Upon-Trent

Victorian Floor Restoration — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:20:41 +0000

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.

On closer inspection of the floor it looked as though at one time the Victorian encaustic tiles had been covered by vinyl tiles and the bitumen based adhesive had soaked into some of the more porous tiles.

Using our new vicTex cleaning pads and neutral cleaning products we stripped away the paint, stains and surface contamination before sealing the floor with a breathable satin 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.