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Floor_Restorer
Dear All,
I have been lurking in the background for a while and have finally come back to contributing to this section of TilersForum!
All we (my company) do is restoration, cleans and seals, polishing and maintenance of floors. We see a lot of floors every year. All sorts of stone types, ages, finishes and locations.
If you are choosing a Contractor to do restoration/maintenance/polishes/etc work on your floor(s) please, please, please, please get references, be they trade or domestic customers. Check them out.
We are having to put right more and more jobs that have gone wrong, the wrong sealants used, sealant applied over dirty floors or that have not been completed properly or to the customers satisfaction. These jobs are being undertaken by under trained and under experienced people. 'Having a go' isn't good enough when treating £10,000 worth of marble wall and floor tiles.
Even yesterday, I went to see 70m/2 of open-faced travertine that had not been cleaned properly, but had been sealed over. The person who did it is not getting paid, but the poor customer is having to go through all of the process again. It is not doing our trade, or industry any good.
Basically, get references, ask to see recent work (which is theirs), see testimonials, speak to other people in the trade if you can.
You wouldn't want someone with a sand filled sponge scrubbing the black paintwork of your nice new Range Rover (if you had one!) would you? You've got to know what you are doing.....
*steps off soapbox*
I promise to contribute more restoration based threads from now on!
Thanks for reading,
Tom
Floor Restorer
I have been lurking in the background for a while and have finally come back to contributing to this section of TilersForum!
All we (my company) do is restoration, cleans and seals, polishing and maintenance of floors. We see a lot of floors every year. All sorts of stone types, ages, finishes and locations.
If you are choosing a Contractor to do restoration/maintenance/polishes/etc work on your floor(s) please, please, please, please get references, be they trade or domestic customers. Check them out.
We are having to put right more and more jobs that have gone wrong, the wrong sealants used, sealant applied over dirty floors or that have not been completed properly or to the customers satisfaction. These jobs are being undertaken by under trained and under experienced people. 'Having a go' isn't good enough when treating £10,000 worth of marble wall and floor tiles.
Even yesterday, I went to see 70m/2 of open-faced travertine that had not been cleaned properly, but had been sealed over. The person who did it is not getting paid, but the poor customer is having to go through all of the process again. It is not doing our trade, or industry any good.
Basically, get references, ask to see recent work (which is theirs), see testimonials, speak to other people in the trade if you can.
You wouldn't want someone with a sand filled sponge scrubbing the black paintwork of your nice new Range Rover (if you had one!) would you? You've got to know what you are doing.....
*steps off soapbox*
I promise to contribute more restoration based threads from now on!
Thanks for reading,
Tom
Floor Restorer