Dry the tiles with a dry mop or cloth.
Chinese slate floor tiles cleaning.
The grout in particular was quite discoloured and of increasing concern to the owner prompting up the decision to contact me about a restoration job.
The old sealer protecting the tile and grout from stains had virtually vanished because the customer in basingstoke had been using washing up liquid to clean them.
You can clean slate floors regularly with a dust mop a broom and a damp mop.
Use the wet vac to remove the clean water.
Rinse the slate floor with a clean mop and clean warm water.
Apply new stone sealer according to the manufacturer s instructions.
Ideally you should dust mop your slate floor every day and damp mop it once a week.
In this case the tiles were chinese slate and were proving very difficult for the property owner to keep clean due to the lack of sealer to protect against dirt and stains.