This Victorian Tiled hallway floor was installed in a house in Hinckley near Coventry and dated back to the 1930s. The floor was covered in grout haze, plaster and other substances I couldn’t identify so although structurally intact not in good cosmetically.
Cleaning a Victorian Tiled Hallway Floor
I decided to tackle the Grout Haze first by applying Tile Doctor Grout Clean-Up which is an acid based product which does what it says on the bottle and allows any surface grout to be wiped off, it’s also effective on the removal of mineral deposits such as Limescale but being acidic you can’t leave it on the surface too long and needs to removed and tiles rinsed with clean water afterwards.
The next step was to give the floor a thorough clean so a solution of Tile Doctor Pro-Clean was applied to the floor and left to soak in for a short while before being worked into the tile with a rotary machine fitted with a black scrubbing pad. The grout also need attention, unfortunately we don’t have a machine that will get into the grout lines so this had to be manually scrubbed by hand using a grout brush, which as you can imagine took some time to do. The soiled cleaning solution was then removed using a wet vacuum and the floor thoroughly rinsed with water and then left it to dry.
Sealing Victorian Hallway Tiles
Once we were happy the floor was dry we started the sealing process with the application of Tile Doctor Colour Grow which is an excellent sealer which leaves a matt finish providing stain protection whilst also enhancing the natural colours in the tile. There are a numbers of different sealers you could choose to seal a Victorian floor and in this case Colour Grow best met the customers requirements.
Interesting choice of sealer, the Victorian tiles look clean but not so shiny which shows the best beauty of the floor.