Cleaning and Polishing Limestone and Travertine Floors
Walking on sealed floors like limestone and travertine, tracked in dust and dirt has nowhere to go. Over time this becomes compacted and ground in, especially in grouting, gradually hiding the original beauty of the floor. With our limestone and travertine cleaning services we can restore it back to its former glory.
Professional Limestone and Travertine floor cleaning and polishing
Badgers Cleaning Services are experts in hard floor cleaning and restoration across Devon, Somerset and Cornwall. Both Limestone and Travertine Flooring is very ornate especially when cleaned and impregnated. The hardness of natural stone tiles does vary making some of the ‘softer’ stone such as limestone tiles unsuitable suitable for very heavy traffic floor areas due to the ease they can be damaged.
This is why the use of an expert like Badgers Cleaning Services cleaning and restoration covering Devon, Somerset and Cornwall can be important.
What are Limestone and Travertine?
Limestone and Travertine are both formed by the settling of plants, seashells, sand, animal fossils and mud on the sea beds. In fact, with both of these types of stone you see often see actually imbed fossils.
Travertine is a soft, porous limestone rock. It looks great when used for flooring and providing good care is taken it can stands the test of time. Usually Travertine has holes across its surface area, which sometimes may be filled with a type of resin. This can make it difficult to distinguish from limestone which has a naturally smoother surface.
Like Marble, Limestone and Travertine are generally used for floors, walls, worktops or outside as cladding or pavement tiles. Unfilled travertine is also quite distinctive and beautiful, and is often seen as decorative flooring.
Maintenance and Restoration Polishing Saves Money!
It will work out far more cost effective to get a professional Limestone and Travertine floor polisher to re-polish a floor than to replace and re-lay it.
A common problem we find are marks from the level of acidity found in food and drinks, called etching. Travertine and Limestone are both softer stone and are easily marked this way. Etching refers to light or pale marks on the surface of the tile which are left behind after such a spillage. The extent of the etching could be from a small patch of discolouration to covering several tiles, depending on the size of any spill.
