Tile Care Products and Advice by Tile Doctor
Professional Cleaning and Maintenance Products for Tile, Stone and Grout
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Colour Grow, is a solvent based colour intensifying sealer that provides durable surface protection as well as allowing the surface to breath and enhance colour. |
Detailed below are examples of this product being used.
Pictured is a 100-year-old stone floor laid with a mix of sandstone with black limestone edging and inserts in the hallway of a property in the village of Rylstone near Skipton. It was very grubby and any sealer that may have been present was gone leaving it vulnerable to ingrained dirt. I understood the floor […]
Recently I visited a farmhouse in Grappenhall to look at a kitchen floor that was laid with beautiful Green Limestone tiles. Grappenhall is a lovely Cheshire village which is better known as a period TV and film location. The owner of the property had sent in a request to have the floor cleaned and sealed. […]
The photographs below show the condition of a heavily soiled Terracotta tiled kitchen floor at a residential property in Balham, SW12, which I was recently commissioned to renovate. The client had several outstanding tasks related to the renovation of the property, but the kitchen floor was the most urgent due to its significant level of […]
I recently had the pleasure of revisiting a property in Newbury that I first worked on around six years ago. The job stood out in my memory—not just because of the work involved, but because the property itself is truly unique. Styled like a Mediterranean villa, the home features a stunning Spanish Red Marble patio […]
This client lived on a farm on the outskirts of Dorchester and had a rustic kitchen with very old flagstones. The flags had been down a very long time and were uneven and some were in a very bad state due to the top layer of stone flaking away. They had found it very difficult […]
Detailed below is the major restoration of an Encaustic Cement tiled floor at an Edwardian property in the West London suburb of Perivale. At some point in its history this beautiful and practical floor was covered up with cement screen and then carpeted. The current owner who was aware of the tiled floor underneath contacted […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to restore a 100-year-old Marble tiled porch at a property in the harbour town of Girvan. The Marble floor was in excellent physical condition for its age but constant use had left it dull and marked in places. It now needed some TLC to bring back its original elegance. Deep […]
I was called by a lady from Whitley Bay who had a Limestone floor installed in her kitchen a few years back, since then it had become very dirty very quickly and looked very dirty. It was now proving very hard to keep clean and looked permanently grubby. I went over to survey the floor […]
This client from Alloa has a small Victorian Tiled vestibule at the entrance to their property that needed attention. The lovely Victorian tiles had been stained with white paint during decorating by the previous owners. They had managed to clean most of the paint off themselves but this had stripped off the sealer in the […]
This client was restoring a period property in Fareham which had an original Flagstone floor in the Kitchen. They hoped to restore the stone and then install a lovely kitchen that would really do the house justice. Always happy to help I went over to the property to discuss the floor and quote for its […]
Tile Doctor was contacted by a client who had recently purchased a 1920’s property in Cardiff with a Encaustic Tiled floor that was in a bad state. The property was having major building works carried out to bring it back to its original condition and this included the tiled floor. The floor in general was […]
Last year I published a job I completed, the restoration and repair of a dilapidated tiled path that led up to a Victorian house in Lewisham . Impressed with the transformation another homeowner from Lewisham SE13 got in touch with me about their own path that was very similar and dated to the late Victorian […]
This customer from Walsall contacted Tile Doctor regarding their Victorian tiled hallway which was in a very poor state. I was sent some photographs which made it clear the floor was seriously neglected with loose tiles and all sorts of contaminates. To understand all the issues before quoting I made an appointment to pop over […]
The Terracotta tiles in the kitchen, living area and entrance vestibule of this property in the village of Currie, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, were reclaimed and had been installed by the owners several years earlier. The intention was to give the property to give a country cottage feel which was achieved and looked great […]
We were contacted by a resident of the west Cheshire village of Pickmere about their 90m2 Green Limestone tiled kitchen floor which has been stained by washing up liquid. Although washing up liquid appears to be a harmless the product clearly contains some ingredients that upset the sealer and polish. Unfortunately patching up the floor […]
Details below of a Limestone tiled floor renovation we completed in Alloway recently. This floor had seen years of wear however I know from experience that with the right cleaning, honing, and sealing process it can be brought back to life! Before starting any work, I paid a visit to the property to give the […]
This is an original well-worn quarry tiled kitchen floor in Chiswick that we suspect was at least 100 years old. We were asked if we could bring the natural colour and rich lustre to the tiles and carry out some tile and grout remedial work to sharpen up the appearance. I paid a visit to […]
Last year we were approached by a customer in the market town of Cowbridge looking for a professional bathroom restorer to renovate their stone tiled bathroom. Apparently, their cleaner had etched the tiles using neat bleach unaware of the damage a strong product like that could have on natural stone. I arranged to call in […]
The tiles in the pictures below are Silver Travertine located in the Kitchen of a client in Shenfield which is an affluent suburb of Brentwood. Silver Travertine rich blend of Silver and Grey and displays lots of character when maintained. In this case the floor hadn’t been cleaned and sealed in some years and the […]
I received an enquiry regarding the restoration of an Encaustic Tiled floor in the hallway of an Edwardian property in Worcester. I arranged a visit to assess the floor and come up with a plan for its restoration. The client wanted the whole floor restoring to its original condition including retiling a section just behind […]
I received a request to quote for the restoration of this Victorian tiled floor in the hallway of a property in Chepstow. As you can see from the photograph below was in a very poor condition. I visited the property to survey the floor and could see that although it had not been well maintained […]
Here we have a beautiful Limestone tiled floor installed in the kitchen and adjacent dining area at a property in Horncastle. We were asked to polish the floor in order to bring up the finish and also remove the fine scratched and etching caused by furniture and pets. Polished stone floors like this one do […]
We received an enquiry regarding a classic chequered Marble tiled entrance hall at a lovely county residence near Uxbridge. The property had been undergoing significant refurbishment and the company doing the work had covered the floor with protective sheeting for a year. With the majority of the work out of the way we were asked […]
The client in Balloch at the South end of Loch Lomond had purchased a property with a Victorian tiled floor hidden beneath worn carpet in the entrance hall. The property was in the process of being converted into a residential home where my client planned to live. The Victorian floor was well-preserved however the tiles […]
Recently I was called out to a property in Rugby which had a lovely Victorian period Encaustic Tiled Floor. The had only just moved into the property and had, like many of my customers seem to do, decided to replace the hallway carpet. Underneath they were pleased to discover a beautiful Black and White tiled […]
Last year I was asked to restore a Victorian tiled floor in the hallway of a property in Mablethorpe which was let out to Holidaymakers. Mablethorpe has a beautiful long sandy beach and is very popular seaside resort, however being so close to the coast does leave it exposed. Like many old floors it had […]
The photographs below are from a 1900’s cottage in Northolt which had a black limestone floor installed in the kitchen. The owners had recently had a new kitchen installed which had a slightly different layout to the original thereby leaving previously covered areas exposed. The client wanted the tiles to be cleaned, and re-sealed and […]
EarliEarlier this year I paid a visit to a client in Chelmsford who had a large that needed attention. The floor had been installed twelve years ago when a extension was added to the rear of the house. Discussing the floor on the phone my client had said that the floor always seemed dirty and […]
This Quarry tiled floor was discovered in an old cottage in the Surrey village of Cranleigh. The new owners had found the quarry tiled floor under an old carpet and wanted to have it restored as an original feature. Unfortunately, it also had a covering of concrete screed over a large percentage of it. This […]
Tile Doctor was contacted by a homeowner from the Pontcanna area of Cardiff about the Quarry tiled path leading up to their property. A local tile restoration company had told them that their pathway was beyond repair and had advised replacing it with new tiles at significant cost. I’m based in Cardiff and cover Southeast […]
