A truly wonderful floor over in Stone Staffordshire. The owners had originally found the floor under carpet and over the years worked hard to remove the old adhesive and underlay rubber. Their efforts to maintain this beautiful floor have certainly paid off as there was very little dirt on the floor; compared to the average Minton floor of this age.

Just take a look at the detail in those encaustic tiles; truly a work of art and surrounded by the red they really are eye catching. The floor is similar to their neighbours which we cleaned their floor last year.

As the floor had been kept in such a good state, we aimed to improve the colour and increase the tiles durability by adding a hard coating of satin sheen which would protect the floor and reduce cleaning and maintenance time.

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