travertine floor

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    Two tone travertine Floor on the Diamond (45 degree)

    If you mean face book Dan I'm not on it but heard a floor I did last month
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    Please help me! Nightmare polishing my Travertine floor.

    Hi guys, Please help me. Really having a nightmare here. Just moved into a new house and the kitchen has a lovely travertine floor but its dirty and neglected. I have a really nice dewalt rotary car polisher and read up about travertine polishing and people say to get diamond polishing pads...
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    Cleaner spilt bleach onto sealed travertine floor... left dull patch... How to repair?

    My kitchen has a travertine floor. When it was installed ~2 years back I sealed it with one of the sealants that soaks into the stone: I put many layers of this on. My cleaner has now spilt bleach onto it. This has left a dull patch of stone (see the dull shape in the attached photo). Firstly...
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    Travertine floor covered in cracks

    I posted previously about 18 months ago re the cracks in my Travertine floor. Since that date many of the tiles have additionally developed holes. I have attached pictures of the state of the floor and am looking for advice as to a remedy so that the floor doesn't look like such an...
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    Travertine floor with heating

    Hi just looked a travertine floor,under screed heating (water),plumber is turning heating on tommorw,my question is I have to self level half of the floor coz not flat,would you have a ditra mat down on top of screen?
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    Travertine floor covered in cracks.

    I moved into a new build home 7 years ago with tiled flooring and underfloor heating on the ground floor. The kitchen and patio was tiled in travertine; the remainder in porcelain tiles. After a year hairline cracks appeared in several of the travertine and I had the tile company inspect the...
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    Travertine floor

    Hi folks as I've been mainly laying porcelain the last number of years I'm a bit out of touch with stone prices. Could someone give me a guideline on what is a reasonable price for 200 m2 of travatine this includes borders and various cut pieces in around Reading area. If you can private message...
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    Matching Mosaic To Travertine Floor On A Preformed Shower Base.

    Hi all, Needing a little advice. I've been roped in to a part done bathroom. Floor is currently travertine and a section has been cut out for a preformed shower base. I need to remove a few tiles around the base now and am planning on installing mosaic on the tray and up to the existing floor...
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    How to clean travertine floor cleaning and grout

    Well, last year I just hosed off the travertine floor and resealed and put some grout in the cracks. All looked great. This year, blimming disaster. The grout is discoloured. I need to clean it using another method and wondered if anyone could suggest what equipment I should hire and also...
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    inlay to travertine floor

    hi all, , bit the bullet and made a start on my own bathroom, trying to do it in between jobs as an on going project, im installing travertine, so im looking to use a different coloured border aroung perimiter of bath ,toilet ect, any ideas as to what to stone to use , i was thinking dark...
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    Replace travertine floor

    Our bathroom was tiled with travertine but the finished job is not to the standard we were expecting (my user name probably gives this away!). I am particularly keen to redo the floor as there is movement in the tiles and cracking in the grout, plus some of the floor tiles are cracked. I am...
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    Travertine floor help please!

    Hi all, I've got a 10m2 travertine floor to install in a kitchen. There are currently ceramic tiles laid and client has told me these are laid on top of quarry tiles. She wants me, if possible, to lay the travertine on top of the quarry. I know that this isn't advisable and have told her but she...
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    Travertine floor

    Hi guys, Doing a Travertine conservatory floor, client has asked: We note also from looking at the tiles, that they should be sealed prior to being laid as well as being sealed again once in place. Can anybody explain what sealing before means? Cheers
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    Spillage of Travertine Floor

    Hi guys, i need a little advice please. I have accidently spllied some neat cillit Bang on my travertine floor. I got it up immediately with water. However now it has dried its left stain marks. Any Ideas on how to clean and remove the splash marks? Cheers Nick
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    Light travertine floor what ceramic wall tiles would go nice with it?

    Hi Guys 1st post so be gentle, We are looking to strip and re fit our downstairs shower room. The room is 2.7m by 2.0m there is a shower, sink and wc in it. Floor is concrete walls and mix of stud and blockall plaster boarded. We have ordered the sanitary which white and showerframe chrome and...
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    Cleaning a Travertine Floor

    I hope someone can help. I have a 25sqm Travertine Floor and was quoted lots of money to get this floor professionally cleaned. Thus, I was hoping to have a go myself. The person that quoted me said he would polish the floor so it will be waterproof, and will not need doing again for 6 years. I...
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    Resin for Travertine floor restoration.

    Hi. I've been asked to restore a travertine kitchen floor. Its a bit grubby and some parts of the floor have punctured, which isn't unusual for one of these kinds of floor. Stuck down well so thats not an issue. I'm planning on stripping the sealer off the floor, then removing the grout with an...
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    Cleaning and repairing travertine floor tiles

    I,ve just moved into a home. th kitchen has got travel tine tiles whivh are very dirty and have holes in them. I went to topps tiles and thensold me some cleaner , some stripper and some sealer. The cleaner did nothing. Can anyone suggest a cleaner that works. Also what can I use to fill in the...
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    help,advice, thoughts on travertine floor tiling job

    hello all went to measure a job today the job was in a old victorian style house divided into large flats. there was a around 100m of travertine to do about 60m on the floors and about 40m in 2 bathrooms on the walls. now heres the dilema after id measured the floor i peeled the carpet back to...
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    Applying sealer to large travertine floor

    Hello again! I've laid my travertine (tumbled and unfilled) floor and have thoroughly cleaned it, and allowed it to dry. After some reading on here and a call to LTP, I've decided to seal (LTP Mattstone) prior to grouting (as recommended by them. I know opinions differ on this, but I'm just...

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