Travertine Tiled Floor Diamond Burnished in Surbiton

Just recently, I carried out a clean and diamond polish job on a Travertine tiled floor in Surbiton for a consumer who had been fed up with the floor since she and her husband had moved in 2 years ago. The floor was the last job on their list of things to be done and they wanted to make sure that it was done properly since regrettably they had fallen prey in the past to a deceitful tradesmen who had not lived up to the expectations.

When I was asked to quote I explained what I would do and showed pictures of previous work, and also my Trustmark Accreditation. They had also researched my work through my website and through the work history where there are lots of examples of Travertine tiles I have worked on in the past. I received the work order the next day and booked the job in for three weeks after.

Stripping and Burnishing Travertine Tiles

I arrived at the appointed date and time and was pleasantly surprised to see that they had put sheeting around all of their kitchen units and skirting so all I had to protect was the wooden flooring next to the travertine.

My first task at hand was to scrub the floors Using Tile Doctor Pro Clean to remove any deep-rooted dirt and clean the grout as well. The soiled cleaning solution was then removed using a wet vacuum and we moved onto burnishing the stone. This is done using a rotary scrubbing machine fitted with a coarse diamond encrusted burnishing pad and a little water began to strip off the old dirt and seal from the floor, the resulting slurry was then removed using a wet vacuum. The polishing pads come in a set of four so once we were done with the coarse pad we moved on to the Medium pad which is the first step in the polishing process.

At this point, I could see more work was required in order to improve the grout which was done using a combination of pressurized steam, more Tile Doctor Pro-Clean and a stiff brush. Once I had removed all the dirt and old seal from the grout I went on to the next stage of polishing and used the fine pad finally moving on to the extra fine pad to give the floor that extra deep shine.

Sealing Travertine Floor Tiles

We left the floor to dry out completely and once the floor was dry we set about sealing it using two coats of Tile Doctor Color Grow which is a color enhancing impregnating sealer designed to provide maximum stain protection on natural stone floors whilst bringing out the color in the stone. After the second coat was applied I waited for 10 minutes before buffing any excess residue with a white buffing pad.

I offered the consumer the option of creating a higher shine by applying Tile Doctor Shine Powder to give it a mirror polish but she refused as she was more than happy with the finish. Overall the floor came out really well and I found it quite a humbling experience as she was constantly saying thank you due to the fact that she had been messed about by previous contractors so was quite relieved to find someone who could actually do the job properly.