Cleaning Natural stone
Cleaned Sealed Polished Restored
As stone ages or becomes neglected care and attention is needed to restore it removing dirt and grime and sealing cracks and chips. Natural stone and it’s derivatives can be brought back to their former glory with the correct application of restoration and cleaning techniques. We deep clean seal, polish and restore granite worktops therefore retaining the granites natural beauty.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock, composed wholly or in large part of calcite or dolomite crystals. Marble ranges in colour from snow-white to grey and black – many varieties being shades of red, yellow, pink, green or buff. The term marble is loosely applied to any limestone or dolomite that take a good polish and is otherwise suitable as a building stone or ornamental stone.
Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained rock found in plutons: large, deep-seated bodies of rock that slowly cooled from the molten state. It is the typical plutonic rock. Granite can be pink to dark grey, or even black.
Limestone
Limestone is an organic sedimentary rock. This means it was formed from the remains of tiny shells and micro-skeletons deposited on the sea-bed. Limestone is made up of calcium carbonate. It has many uses.
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogenous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash. Slate is usually dark, but it can be colourful too. High quality slate is an excellent paving stone, as well as long-lasting slate roof tiles and floor tiles, and the best billiard tables.
Travertine
Travertine is a kind of sedimentary stone that is common in Italy. The Travertine quarry in Tivoli, Italy is where the world’s largest supply of slate is found. Travertine is a form of limestone. High quality travertine tends to be ivory or light beige, although it can come in a range of colours.
Methods, Restoration & Maintenance
Vitrification
With the use of various graded diamond disc or abrasive carbon pads we work the different grades across the floor surface to remove lippage, deep scratches. Levelling the floor surface to produce a deep reflective shine.
Re-grouting
The removal of existing grout and replacing with new grout. Sealing gaps and removing dirt and grime that could contain bacteria.
Sealing
By applying a below the surface impregnator sealer this method will repel and slow down the absorption of spillages into the porous stone surface.
Cleaning
Removal of spillages, etch marks, paint, glue, tape residue and surface staining.
Stain Removal
Deep set staining will require a special poultice application.
Repairs
Using a colour match epoxy resin to match the stone to as near as possible, cracks, chips, holes and voids can be repaired.
Stone Materials
Granite – Natural stone
Marble – Natural stone
Limestone – Natural stone
Travertine – Natural stone
Terrazzo – Artificial stone
Porcelain – Artificial stone
Sandstone – Natural stone
Clean, repair and restore bathroom tiles, kitchen surfaces, stone floors, fire surrounds
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Stone care and restoration
Victorian Tiles
Quintessentially British with geometric patterns Victorian tiles can be restored to their natural beauty with the correct care and attention. Victorian tiles are embellishing features within period homes.
Artificial Stone
Cleaning is a necessary part of the proper maintenance of artificial manufactured stone. When it is not cleaned, the appearance of the stone can gradually decrease with in grain dirt making the surface soiled.
Natural Stone
The hardness and lifespan of Natural Stone can be increased with a good overhaul of the material finish, treatment and further maintenance. We never use metal utensils that may scratch the surface.
Areas Covered: Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Suffolk
All Essex areas covered: Alresford, Asheldham, Barling, Basildon, Billericay, Bobbingworth, Borley, Bradwell-on-Sea, Braintree, Brentwood, Brightlingsea, Buckhurst Hill, Burnham-on-Crouch, Canvey Island, Chappel, Chelmsford, Chipping Ongar, Colchester, Clacton, Clacton-on-Sea, Coggeshall, Crays Hill, Danbury, Debden, Earls Colne, Felsted, Frinton-on-Sea, Fyfield, Grays, Great Dunmow, Hadleigh, Halstead, Harwich, Hockley, Ongar, Epping, Ingatestone, Kelvedon Hatch, Laindon, Lamarsh, Langham, Leigh-on-Sea, Maldon, Manningtree, Marks Tey, Newport-Essex, North Weald, North Weald Bassett, Pilgrims Hatch, Pitsea, Purfleet, Rochford, Saffron Walden, Shenfield, Shoeburyness, Sible Hedingham, South Benfleet, South Woodham Ferrers, Southend-on-Sea, Southminster, Stanford Le Hope, Stansted Mountfitchet, Thaxted, Thorpe le Soken, Thundersley, Thurrock, Tiptree, Tilbury, Tollesbury, Walton-on-the-Naze, West Mersea, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wethersfield, White Roding, Wickford, Widdington, Witham, Wivenhoe, Woodford Green, Writtle, Dagenham, Rainham, Ilford, Nazeing, Roydon, Chigwell, Upminster, Romford, South Ockendon, Southend, Rayleigh, Harlow, Loughton
All Hertfordshire areas covered: Abbots Langley, Ashwell, Baldock, Berkhamsted, Buntingford, Broxbourne, Bushey, Bishops Stortford, Cheshunt, Chorleywood, Elstree, Harpenden, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Hertingfordbury, Hoddesdon, Kimpton, Kings Langley, Knebworth, Letchworth, Little Hadham, London Colney, Markyate, Much Hadham, Northaw, Radlett, Redbourn, Rickmansworth, Royston-Herts, Sawbridgeworth, St Albans, Tring, Ware, Watford, Welham Green, Welwyn, Wheathampstead, Wormley, Barnet, Borehamwood, Hertford, Welwyn Garden City, Waltham Cross, Waltham Abbey, Hitchin, Stevenage, Potters Bar, Cuffley
All Kent areas covered: Ashford, Ash, Aylesford, Belvedere, Bexleyheath, Bexley, Biddenden, Birchington, Borough Green, Broadstairs, Bromley, Canterbury, Charing, Chatham, Chislehurst, Cliffe Woods, Cranbrook, Dartford, Deal, Dover, Dymchurch, East Peckham, Ebbsfleet, Edenbridge, Faversham, Folkestone, Gillingham, Goudhurst, Gravesend, Gravesham, Greenhithe, Hawkhurst, Headcorn, Herne Bay, High Halstow, Higham, Hollingbourne, Horton Kirby, Hythe, Kennington, Kings Hill, Lamberhurst, Littlestone-on-Sea, Longfield, Lydd, Lyminge, Lympne, Maidstone, Marden, Margate, Medway, Meopham, Minster-in-Thanet, Minster, New Romney, Northfleet, Orpington, Otford, Paddock Wood, Petts Wood,Queenborough, Ramsgate, Rochester, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Sandwich, Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Sidcup, Sittingbourne, St Margarets at Cliffe, Staplehurst, Staple, Strood, Sundridge, Swale,Swalecliffe, Swanley, Swanscombe, Tenterden, Teynham, Tonbridge, Tudeley, Tunbridge Wells, Walderslade, Welling, West Kingsdown,West Malling, West Wickham, Westerham, Westgate on Sea, Whitstable, Woodchurch, Wye
All Suffolk areas covered: Aldeburgh, Beccles, Brandon, Bungay, Bures, Bury St. Edmunds, Clare, Debenham, Dunwich, Eye, Felixstowe, Framlingham, Framsden, Hacheston, Halesworth, Haverhill, Ipswich, Kentford, Lakenheath, Lavenham, Leiston, Long Melford, Lowestoft, Metfield, Mildenhall, Nayland, Needham Market, Newmarket, Orford, Saxmundham, Sizewell, Snape, Southwold, Stanton, Stowmarket, Stratford St Mary, Sudbury, Thorpeness, Troston, Wherstead, Wickham Market, Woodbridge