Home Improvements
By Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
South Africa
September 5, 2016 12:45am CST
today i might be a little missing in action - but promise to pop in once in a while when i get safe passage to my PC.
We are doing the "strip and seal" of the stone floors in my family room while the furniture is being re-covered. Taking the opportunity to utilize the less cluttered space was a smart move. Now the professional cleaners only have to move HALF the amount of furniture and can you believe it, it made a difference in the cost of the floor sealing.
Since my floors are stone - REAL STONE - not ceramic or brick, this process strips off all excess polish, two years of cleaning agents, any other grubbies that I might not have been able to eliminate and then it stands to get dry before they apply 3 layers of sealant. Its rather a very easy floor to maintain, but once in a while I like to have it totally stripped and sealed!
After the sealant is dry its buffed and my floor looks like the foyer of the HILTON HOTEL in Beverley Hills.
That's my Monday - leave your calling card and don't do anything I wouldn't do.
Keep it real!
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11 responses
@LadyDuck (502657)
• Italy
6 Sep 16
@Inlemay Most of the houses in Switzerland have the heating under the tiles. It's a low energy heating that works very well, because the heat goes up, so it makes sense to have it in the floors. We have stone in the basement. My mom has marble flooring, it's very cold.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
5 Sep 16
someday I want to lose this old icky carpet (I clean it but it's pretty stained and was when we moved in), and put in flooring. I'd like bamboo, but would be ok even with a nice laminate
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 Sep 16
@Inlemay it's not just that I want the changes,it's that the carpet looks moldy thanks to an accident with a powdered drink mix and a male deciding to wetvac it up before he swept it up, setting a dark purple into the carpet. it needs changed out. just never have the money for that sort of thing
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
5 Sep 16
well our floor is made of stone also because our house is not just a house it's an old house.my wife puts only floorwax and scrub and then it will shine.but sometimes she use a candle she puts under the coconut scrub
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
5 Sep 16
i'd love to've stone here, though i'm most certain my floors'd not handle the weight well, lol. 'tis gonna be jest lovely once ya get such completed. gonna feel like a whole new room once ya get all tended 'n that furniture back :)
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
5 Sep 16
Oh, I'm intrigue how your floors made of stones look like. Can you post some pictures? Our floors in our house are made of granite tiles only.
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