Can you help we've just had black riven slate fitted, we are grouting and sealing and we have used LTP Grimex to clean and waiting for it to dry before sealing, but we have these white marks - would anybody be able to advise how to remove? Or will the sealer darken these spots? Any help would be...
Hello all. got a call today from a cleaner who has spilled an acidic descaler on a limestone floor i tiled a few years ago. Any ideas what can be done folks? Hope you're well @Lithofin BOB ;)
Black limestone water marks after sealing
I've been reading this forum for a couple of years now and learnt a lot from the posts on here so thanks for everyone's efforts in helping pass on advice.
This is the first post I've made and there are a number of articles on this already but I need...
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After advice please I have a customer that has polished marble on a kitchen floor with fila mp 90 sealer and had a burst pipe up stairs and flooded the downstairs floor and it has left what I think are water marks not really bad but a little patchy what's the best thing to do to make it look...
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I recently laid underfloor warm up style matt heating. Half is an old floor taken back to concrete. And half was a new screed laid a few months prior (according to customer) The floor was primed with the primer that was issued with the heating. The floor was then covered in flexible latex...
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Just started a job with large 900 x600 x20 mm hard honed limestone. The tiles were separated by loops of thin string. In a certain light you can see the string marks on face of stone and also where it has moved in transit cause a blurred looped curved line.have tried wexa and power clean but...
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I've just joined after reading a few old threads regarding these tiles to see if anybody can advise.
We bought the above tiles and were advised to buy the Fila products,one for removing the wax on them and one for sealing them.
We had a Bathroom Fitter supposedly follow the...
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I wonder if anybody can help, I have just had my garden laid with black kota limestone slabs, these were then covered by our landscaper with lithofin colour intensifier. for a few days it looked brilliant, however since then I have been left with patches of water marks on approx. 10-20% of...
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just started a new job with a mandarin stone 500x random .
cant remember the name .
Darren ( freeze) do you recognise this one.Ive been put on their recommended list for weybridge!!!
stone beautifully cut square and even thickness.
client received stone a month ago and brought in to house and...
Can anyone suggest what these white marks could be. The tiles are anti slip porcelain, the marks appeared about a week after they were laid. Since then they have been cleaned again with LTP grimex, and again within a week they have come back.
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I've just had my bathroom tiled in white matt ceramic/porcelain tiles and today I noticed shadow spots on all the tiles. The tiler explained that it's the moisture from the adhesive coming through the clay back of the tile and that it will dry out. I'm not confident with this answer because...
I'm having cream polished porcelain tiles laid throughout the downstairs of my house. The tiler has laid most of the kitchen floor today and I can notice dull marks on the edges of some of the tiles which I have tried wiping cleaning etc but to no avail. I'm now unsure about letting him lay the...
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I'm a bit worried that a cheap deal from ebay is proving to be more costly than expected...
The tiles were looking amazing initially but after using a Swarfega hand cleaner on them some mottled mark started appearing from nowhere - the tiles are dark grey and the marks are lighter - it appears...
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Hi lads am going to take a few pics 2morr then you can tell me what type of floor it is
I have tryed loads of ways to cleaning them but no luck grrr
Cheers Denbo
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I bought a worn limestone patio 8.1 x 3.9 which was delivered covered in water marks.
My builder laid the patio, with the supplier saying that a combination of raid + sun would see the marks disappear, and then we could seal the patio before...
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I am Hoping someone could help with some advice on how to remove pencil marks that the bathroom fitter has got on recently laid polished ivory porcelain tiles, as it doesn't seem to want to come out and there are a couple of them in conspicuous places such as to the left of a toilet push...
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We have just completed a number of bathrooms walls and floors in Basalt.
All the tiles were sealed first with Lithofin stain stop . some walls were applied with dabs of adhesive rather than continuous bed these show through the tile. The floors are showing water marks when used. We have also...
I've just had my bathroom tiled by a 'professional tiler' and now when the wall gets wet the water penetrates through the grout and into the tiles which then shows up as a dark mark.
The tiler is blaming the tiles, they are cheap DIY ones unfortunately and the glaze does not go around the edges...
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