This is the Saloon at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire which we completed a while back. It had years of old layers of seal and dirt to strip off to get the floor back to the bare stone and get it all nice and clean before sealing. This is the same type of floor – Portland stone – as the Great Hall which we did previously and also their Orangery which we have done many times before. We did this floor in two halves whilst the Palace was still open to the public, so we were very much an exhibit which many of the public were finding very satisfying and interesting to watch.
Limestone floor cleaning and sealing Oxford
You can see in the before photos below that the limestone floor was very patchy and discoloured, with layers of old seal and dirt.
Below is a section of the floor after we had stripped it back and before sealing. It looked lovely even at this stage as a bare and natural, clean limestone floor but a shiny finish was requested so of course this is what we delivered. We could have used stone polishing processes to create a shine and then applied an impregnating seal, but as this is a high traffic area with the public walking through, they specifically wanted the floor to have a topical seal put on to protect it.
Commercial stone floor restoration Oxfordshire
The before/after photos do not do it justice, but there is a great difference and the floors look absolutely stunning! The limestone looks so much brighter and whiter, and the shine gives it the wow factor. Staff commented that they had never seen the floor looking so good!
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