Limestone cleaning and sealing Oxfordshire

We were asked to restore the Great Hall floor at Blenheim Palace prior to their re-opening to the public. The Palace staff had previously been applying layer upon layer of seal to give a nice shine prior to events etc over 30+ years so the floor had become very built up with old seal with dirt sealed in making the floor look dull, patchy, dirty and discoloured. We unfortunately do not have any good before photos of the whole floor but the below shows some close ups of what it was like.

Stripping back the floor of all the old seal was a real mission and required some pretty intensive stripping and re-surfacing, going over the floor multiple times, and even scraping by hand in places. This took the majority of the time but you can see a real difference in the pictures below to the ones above! The stone looks much brighter and lighter and really brightens up the whole space. We then deep cleaned and neutralised the whole floor before applying several coats of a low sheen topical seal as this was the preferred finish the Palace had requested. It gives a lovely sheen to the floor and a durable, protective coating to allow for easier maintenance and prevent staining etc.

The below photos show the floor half finished and then completed. Restored to its former glory and all clean and hygienic ready for re-opening. It looks gorgeous and the Palace staff are very happy. They had been wanting it done for years so were over the moon that it had finally been done!

We also cleaned and waxed the wood floors in the Long Library, which also look great and I shall blog about this separately.

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