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TILE DOCTOR Travertine Tile Cleaning & Sealing Information. |
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Travertine Stone Tiles - Cleaning and Sealing
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General
Travertine tile is a natural material that has unique features that no other stone can offer. The distinctive design of Travertine creates some of the most distinguished floor tiles. Travertine is ideal for commercial and residential use. It can be used for floor tile, kitchen flooring, bathroom wall tile, bathroom floor tile, and it is often used externally.
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| PThe photographs above show Travertine stone tiles on a kitchen floor before and after cleaning and sealing. |
Travertine Tile Maintenance
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To remove any excess sealer before cleaning use Tile Doctor Remove & Go Sealer remover.
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Use Tile Doctor Pro-Clean Stone, Tile & Grout cleaner to effectively clean tiles, highly effective against Wax Sealers, Grease, Grime and general dirt build up.
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For difficult floors mix Pro-Clean with Nanotech Ultra Clean for a double whammy cleaning solution. Nanotech-Ultra Clean incorporates Nano technology to help lift the dirt from the tiles (it really works), especially useful for those hard to clean floors where the dirt has ingrained itself over many years.
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Always neutralise floor with clean water prior to sealing, mop up and allow to dry for 30 minutes or more.
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Apply Tile Doctor Pro-Seal sealer using a paintpad applicator and tray. 4 to 5 coats of sealant may be required, always allow to dry before applying furhter coats. Use a water test to achieve full cure sealability (F.C.S.). |
| Most sealers break down after 2-3 years (depending on usage and cleaning products used) so for regular cleaning use a sealer friendly cleaning product such as Neutral Tile Cleaner which has been especially formulated for the regular cleaning of Sealed Stone and Tile surfaces keeping them fresh with a pleasant mint scent. |
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Travertine Problem?
Click here to Ask the Tile Doctor for his advice.
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Joan
Sufolk |
UGH! My son recently missed the toilet while running to throw up and some landed on my travertine floor. I cleaned it up immediately, and the next morning could see a stain with splash marks and all. Any suggestions as to how to get the stain up would be greatly appreciated. |
| Tile Doctor |
Hi Joan,
Could be the acids in your sons stomach have etched the stone, the best you could do is reseal it with another coat of sealer, if you know which sealer was used then use that one, if not then I can recommend Tile Doctor Pro-Seal, if this doesnt work then the stone is damaged and there's not a lot you can do. |
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James
Stockton |
Is it neccessary to seal Travertine tiles and is ok to put them up and then seal them. If any cement gets on the tiles will this stain them or is it easy to get the cement off?. |
| Tile Doctor |
Hi James,
We have a sealer called Pro-Seal which is ideal for Travertine, you need to seal the tiles first as this will make it easier to remove the grout afterwards.
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For more Tile Doctor advice see the Ask the Tile Doctor web page.
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| The photographs above show Travertine stone tiles on a kitchen floor before and after cleaning and sealing. |
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