Slate Cleaning, Restoration and Sealing in Pinellas, Hillsborough & Manatee

Slate is naturally layered and textured beauty

Each floor unique in its grain and depth. We'll treat that stone with the respect it deserves.

Picture This: The Entry in Dunedin

The slate entry and lanai at your Dunedin home used to be rich and dark, every tile a little different. Now the old sealer is flaking off in white patches, the grout is dark, and the texture holds dirt that the mop just pushes around. Slate comes back beautifully when it is done right: we strip the failing sealer, deep-clean the stone and grout, and reseal it so the natural colors show again.

Our Slate Projects

Slate stripped, deep-cleaned and resealed to bring back its depth and color.

We, at The Floor Cleaning Experts, provide incredibly thorough and high quality Slate Cleaning, Restoration & Sealing in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater

Slate is a metamorphic stone that is formed in layers. This makes slate floor restoration more complex because the slate floor cannot be restored by honing and polishing. Slate floors require stripping, cleaning and resealing for slate floor restoration.

Slate Stripping:

The first step in the slate floor cleaning and restoration process is to strip any topical coatings from the slate floor. Removing the finish coat from the slate floor will remove the majority of the soil and dullness from the slate floor.

Slate Cleaning:

Using a low speed scrubber with a brush attachment the slate floor has a slate cleaning detergent scrubbed into the surface to list the soils and emulsified slate floor finish from the grooves and texture of the slate floor. The slate is then rinsed with a hot water extraction tool to clean the slate and the grout.

Slate Sealing:

Slate floors can be sealed with either a topical slate floor sealer or a penetrating slate floor sealer. A topical slate tile sealer is used to give the slate floor a matte or semi-gloss appearance while a penetrating slate sealer soaks into the pores of the slate tile making them water repellent and enhancing the natural color of the slate tiles.

Drytreat Stain Proof Sealer

Drytreat Stain Proof sealer permanently seals grout and stone. This product penetrates 3 times as deep as most penetrating sealers and bonds itself to the molecular structure of the stone or grout. Stain Proof comes with a manufactures 15 year warranty when applied by a certified applicator.

Our Slate Projects

Slate stripped, deep-cleaned and resealed to bring back its depth and color.

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"Everyone’s stone floor is as unique as the person that chose the floor in the first place. Your floors, counters, walls, deserve someone’s attention that has “been there” and “done that”. We’ll treat each floor with the respect it deserves, especially when it comes to clean up, and protecting the environment that the stone lives in. With the investment you have in your floors, you’d never settle for someone’s first time out, and we would never give you anything but our best.

4145Slate Floors Restored and counting
3Generations of Floor Care
3Generations of Floor Cleaners, and hoping

Who Is Floor Cleaning Experts

You just might get a surprise opera sample when getting your stone floors refinished.

We run a magnificent team of highly qualified stone professionals. Each person that is in your office, or home, has been trained by Tom Workman, a third generation Floor Cleaning Expert.

In Tom's spare time, Tom is an active participant in local theater, and local opera, as well as finding time to relax with a raucous weekend band of fun-loving rag tag collection of misfits! Life is not all work - but your floors - that's serious business.