Bathroom Floor Tile Clean & Restore - Limestone?

[Wilmeister]

Hi,


First I'd like to say hi. I came across this site doing some research on tile restoration and found the information on here very helpful. I recently moved into a new flat and the bathroom is looking a little tired. Ideally I'd like to do a full bathroom restoration but don't have the funds at the moment after forking out for the deposit. So in the meantime, I thought if I re-grouted the tiles I could inject a bit of life into the bathroom for the next couple of years.

There are plenty of guides on this and I thought it would be something I could do myself with a bit of elbow grease. However after coming across this site I am not so sure. The bathroom floor tiles aren't standard ceramic but some sort of stone, I think Limestone? I've attached pictures.

They appear to be polished and have seen better days. The floor tiles beside the bath/shower screen have become rough and discoloured with a white residue from water collecting there of time. Limescale I'm guessing.


Could I just get away with cleaning, regrouting & sealing the floor tiles or would I need to polish them as well? If the later is required could you recommend anyone in East London for the job?


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,


Will

 

[SJPurdy]

The first thing I see is the five rings on each tile in the area of the toilet bowl. This looks to me like the tiler fixed the tiles on 5 blobs of adhesive and these blobs (or the salts from) have stained through the tile. If I am right about this then I doubt if there is a remedy, but others may know better.

The second thing (white marks) may be limescale stains on the surface or they could be where the honed/polished surface has been attacked by acid (or other chemical eg. cleaner) to give a duller/whiter appearance. I think this is probably treatable using a polishing/re-honing polish/scrub

 

[Wilmeister]

Thank you for the response. I didn't notice the 5 spots you pointed out but see them clearly now. I'm starting to think that I need to get get an expert to come and take a look at it. Depending on the work involved in restoring the tiles it might be worth me leaving them for now until I redo the bathroom.