Marble Floor
Cleaning & Polishing

Marble

Marble is one of the world's longest-standing materials, used in buildings over thousands of years of human development.

This metamorphic rock is formed from limestone by heat and pressure in the earth's crust in a process called re-crystallisation. The minerals that result from impurities in limestone give marble a wonderful variety of patterns and colourful veins. It consists mainly of calcite or dolomite, or a combination of these carbonate minerals.

Marble is highly durable and regarded as a luxurious choice of flooring material. It can be polished up to a really high shine either by diamond polishing, using diamond abrasives of progressively finer grades, or by using marble polishing compounds in a process called crystallisation. The use of marble impregnators will help protect the floor from staining by closing the porosity of the stone while still letting it ‘breathe’.

Unique Floorcare carries out thorough restoration on all natural stone floors, and we discuss the different options available to our customers before we start the process.

Once the stone cleaning or restoration process has finished, you receive a floor-cleaning guide explaining how best to maintain your floor. For more information or to discuss your floor restoration options, please call us or send an email.

Case Study

Marble Floor Restoration, Warwickshire

The Marble floor had lost some of its shine and was beginning to have a hazy appearance. Acid etching caused by using the wrong cleaning chemicals had left marks by the main door. Deep scratches and minor cracks were repaired, and a polishing powder was worked into the floor to create a high shine.

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Marble Polishing, Theatre Entrance

The Marble floor in the entrane area of this theatre had become dull and the management wanted to polish it up again, so visitors would be impressed by the beautiful chequered pattern when they entered the building. Before preparing the whole area, we polished up a small section first, and the customer was very pleased with the result.

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News, Advice & FAQs

Does Your Floor Stand Up to the Footfall?

Busy supermarkets often have a tough job on their hands trying to keep their floors clean and safe. A high flow of traffic takes its toll on the surface which will quickly become dirty and slippery and in the end wear out prematurely, unless it is treated.

Dust Free Concrete Floors

Concrete dust create real cleaning problems for warehouses and production facilities with power floated concrete floors. Our Concrete Polishing system solves the problem, creates stunning floors and reduces cleaning cost.

How to Keep Floors Clean

Entrance matting act as the first line of defence when it comes to preventing outside dirt and grit from being walked into a building, and, even more importantly, they reduce the risk of slips and falls - a key consideration for all publicly accessible buildings. Research shows that up to 90% of all dirt and debris present within a building is tracked in from the outside on the bottom of shoes. An effective entrance mat measuring 6 meters can remove 75% of all this dirt, contain it in one place and reduce the cleaning cost otherwise required in the building.

The ‘Wet & Dry’ Floor Cleaning Method

What is the 'Wet-and-Dry' Method? When using the Mop & Bucket system, the 'Wet-and-Dry' method is a very simple yet incredibly effective step in picking dirt and grit off the surface during floor cleaning. First you wash the floor with a wet mop until you're satisfied you can't clean any more dirt off. Then you go over the damp area with a CLEAN, DRY mop to pick up any leftover dirt and grit you couldn't pick up during the clean. You will be amazed at how much dirt you can still pick up during this simple step, please see below.