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Professional Stone Cleaning, Polishing & Restoration
Dull and Dirty Floors or Worktops?
Over the years a high shine natural stone floor or worktop can come to appear dull and lose its sparkle. This is not usually down to a build up of dirt but down to the erosion of the natural stone surface. Our stone polishing services can bring your surface back to life for a true long lasting shine!
- Reverse 10+ Years of Wear
- Flooring, Tiles & Worktops
- Scratch & Etchmark removal
- Watermark removal
- Dirt & Scale removal
- Grease removal
- Sealing & Protection Available
- Customer Satisfaction Guarantee
What surfaces can we clean & restore?
- Marble Floor Cleaning, Restoration, Sealing & Protection
- Travertine Floor Cleaning, Restoration, Sealing & Protection
- Natural Stone Cleaning & Restoration
- Marble Polishing & Honing
- Travertine Polishing & Honing
- Basalt Polishing & Honing
- Granite Polishing & Honing
- Limestone Honing & Polishing
- Terrazo Honing & Polishing
Using diamond technologies we can mechanically restore your stone to the desired look, leaving it looking ‘better than it did when it was new!’
Before & After Examples
Over time you may notice a dulling of your stone or tiled flooring. A common cause for this is the natural erosion of the microscopic surface of your floor, making it irregular and uneven over time. Light is then bounced in different directions or absorbed, leaving the surface looking dull and lacking reflection.
Marble flooring
Sometimes when we have shown these photos to clients & friends they take some convincing that they are the same floor as they don't realise what we are showing them!
We have to point out the surrounding items to prove it is in fact the same place.
Oops they installed mixed tiles!
These tiles were delivered in 2 different boxes and the tiler laid them without realising the error! We can in and ground the floor to an even finish.
No need to lift & replace when you have us!
There's a tree in my floor
This floor was 15 years old without any work done to it before we came in and restored it to an even superior finish than new.
If you look closely in the before you can see our demo patch while the client was deciding which level of finish they desired.
Honing & Polishing
By using a wide variety of technologies suitable to the stone, we use specialised machinery for your stone flooring restoration, returning it to it a brand new appearance, or go even further and transform it into a higher mirror shine or to take the sheen off altogether, mechanically not artificially – it’s all down to your preference and the type of stone we’re dealing with .
As you see as in the diagram above, the uneven surface of the stone which can be caused by years of wear mean the light becomes messy and hits of the surface in all different directions. The light then blurs off the surface and the mirror reflection illustrated on the left is gone.
How a shine is built up through layers?
It may sound counter to what we say, but in order to be smooth we must actually, on a very micro level, produce hills and valleys. The more even the hill tops and valleys we have the more evenly the light reflects. And the more peaks per area we have the more light is reflected in total.
Now for 'clarity'
We have our desired number of peaks and valleys now but why are some finishes with the same numbers more crisp than others? This is where the technologies used to make these landscapes vary, and the stone itself that we cut into.
Some stones are denser than others by nature. This among other things determines what can be produced into that stone. A marble compressed tightly over thousands of years will have a firmer landscape to cut into than a travertine produced from the calcium springs in part from mountain sides with all its exposition to air pockets. Both can be polished with fine results but the stone determines what can be achieved with it.
The second factor which now is in our control is the technologies we use to cut with. There are many things that can cut into a stone and pitting the hardness of the cutting surface against the hardness of the stone can produce stark difference. Whilst producing the same numbers of peaks and valleys one edge may give you a hill top while a harder edge will produce more of a mountain peak in its place with straighter edges.
This is what we call ‘clarity’. It is subtly different from reflection, in terms common in todays world we could think of this more like a resolution on a phone screen. If showing the variation in colours bouncing back from the stone were our reflection we have the same regardless of our resolution or clarity. The higher the factor clarity here though the more pinpoint and crisp our image is.
Areas we cover
- Newcastle upon Tyne (+40 mile radius)
- Gateshead
- Northumberland
- North & South Tyneside
- County Durham
- Sunderland