[Graeme Smith]

One for Kevin Ceramic tile approx 40 years old in a cafe formally a wimpy burger bar. Owner cannot get it clean. I dropped in whilst the place was open so a machine was out of the question - trailing leads etc. Had a quick play with high alkaline and a bit of 220 honing powder. Made it slightly better but this tile is textured for non slip purposes I presume and it was not shifting. Going back with the machine for a real test. Method will be; wet out, high alkaline, dwell up to 20 minutes, honing powder, rotary machine, wet vac, rinse, wet vac.
Anything else? Bit concerned about this one as the test by hand was not impressive but I would guess dwell time was not enough??? Had a little dabble with solvent based coating remover just to see what that did and the high alkaline was best.
Put a little bit of acidic brick/mortar clean up solution out of interest - did nothing.
100 square metres of this stuff to do - photos attached   

[sherco]

I used some BONAMAIN on a job at a school on some anti slip tiles was very impressed how well it cleaned. Expensive product but did the job and secured another £3,000 worth of work at the school. If you contact them they will send out a sample before you buy so you can test to see if it works.

[Graeme Smith]

Thanks - The tiles in questions are grim

[Jamie Pearson]

Bonamain will work well on these.

I would be tempted however just to jump straight to their Pro2 product.

[Kev Martin]

One for Kevin Ceramic tile approx 40 years old in a cafe formally a wimpy burger bar. Owner cannot get it clean. I dropped in whilst the place was open so a machine was out of the question - trailing leads etc. Had a quick play with high alkaline and a bit of 220 honing powder. Made it slightly better but this tile is textured for non slip purposes I presume and it was not shifting. Going back with the machine for a real test. Method will be; wet out, high alkaline, dwell up to 20 minutes, honing powder, rotary machine, wet vac, rinse, wet vac.
Anything else? Bit concerned about this one as the test by hand was not impressive but I would guess dwell time was not enough??? Had a little dabble with solvent based coating remover just to see what that did and the high alkaline was best.
Put a little bit of acidic brick/mortar clean up solution out of interest - did nothing.
100 square metres of this stuff to do - photos attached   

Pre wet the floor, apply heavy duty alkaline and allow to dwell, scrub it in and add some 320 honing powder, scrub in with a soft to medium brush on your rotary, then rinse and vac and rinse again Job Done!!!

Kev Martin
Tiling Logistics
Marblelife Ltd

[Graeme Smith]

Cheers all

[brilhoservices]

Thanks for sharing.