This job was to
refresh the Marble tile installed in a house in
Woking. There were a number of different marble tiles installed on the wall and floor including two shower cubicles, a bathroom floor, a small cloakroom floor and the kitchen floor; the pictures below show before and after photographs for each job.
Cleaning a Marble Tile Shower Cubicle
I started with the shower cubicles using
Tile Doctor Oxy-Pro which is a specific product for cleaning showers and comes with a spray attachment that mixes the cleaning agent with air making it lighter and helping it stick to vertical surfaces. This was left to dwell on the surface for a while and then the tiles were scrubbed before being rinsed down. This action not only cleaned the dirt and soap scum off the tile it also got rid of some mould that had started to grow.
In one shower there was a build-up of limescale on the wall so to get rid of this I used a little
Tile Doctor Grout Clean-up, this product is usually for removing grout smears from tile however it’s also good at removing most types of mineral deposits such as Limescale, you do have to be quick though as it’s an Acid based product I had to be quick and to thoroughly rinse because I didn't want to damage the marble.
Marble Mosaic Bathroom floor tile cleaning
The next job was to tackle the bathroom floor which was tiled with small Marble mosaic tiles. A long time was spent cleaning and scrubbing the grout of this floor using a solution of
Tile Doctor Pro-Clean mixed 50/50 with
NanoTech Ultra-Clean to add tiny abrasive particles making a very effective tile cleaner. Again once the cleaning was finished cleaning the floor was rinsed thoroughly with clean water to remove any cleaning product.
Marble Kitchen floor tile cleaning
The next floor on the list was the kitchen floor, again all Marble tile; on this I used a rotary scrubbing machine fitted with a medium brush head and again a mixture of
Pro-Clean and
NanoTech UltraClean. The reason I used a brush head instead of a scrubbing pad is because it is a textured marble the brushes will get into the nooks and crannies, the grout was especially stained in this area and this is now much improved.
Marble Cloakroom floor cleaning
The last floor on the list to do was the cloakroom WC which was cleaned using the same method as on the bathroom floor described above using the
Pro-Clean,
NanoTech, and UltraClean mixture worked in with some elbow grease.
Once everything had been cleaned, and rinsed. I left it all to dry out overnight.
Sealing Marble Tiles
The following day before I sealed I checked everything just in case I had missed anything, but it was all okay. I sealed everything twice using
Tile Doctor Colour Grow and checked that the tiles were properly sealed by doing a water test. When sealing you have to make sure that you don't let the seal puddle so I buff the tiles with terry towelling and on the large areas I also buff the floors with a
white buffing pad.
As you can imagine this was a very large job and when everything was eventually finished the lady said she was really happy and couldn't believe how the tiles had come out, she even had her neighbours round to see how it all turned out and they were all suitably impressed.
Souce:
Marble Tile Cleaning Expert in Surrey
