Cleaning Flagstones and natural stone flooring
Stone flooring is extremely beautiful, long lasting and durable, making it ideal for both interior and exterior flooring. Any type of natural stone floor is very expensive and looking after it is essential to ensure that the high quality appearance is maintained. Keeping stone floors clean isn’t always as simple as it seems, especially when a sealant has been used to offer a protective coating to the floor, as this coating can remain slippery and cause a major heath and safety hazard for quite a time if not cleaned correctly. To clean an internal natural stone floor you should consider hiring a Kärcher Scrubber Drier, as they can leave even a coated floor clean and dry just seconds after it has been cleaned, so not only can you easily improve the appearance of your stone floor, you can also achieve this safely without causing a slip hazard. Most coatings are designed to provide a non-slip property to the floor and correctly cleaning using a Kärcher Scrubber Drier can help to maintain these non-slip properties for increased safety. Kärcher scrubbers driers are available in a wide range of body plans to suit any size of area that needs to be cleaned from a small reception area right through to larger atriums, halls and whole shopping centres.
Because of this natural hardness and durability, natural stone floors and flagstones can also ba a very popular options for use outdoors for paving and driveways, for example. Unfortunately this can leave the stone looking dirty and unattractive unless kept clean. Primary candidates for this are mosses, lichens and algae, tyre marks and oil stains, which can all leave your stone flooring looking old, grimy and worn.
Kärcher Center JHS Hire have a huge range of machinery that can help to clean all manner of stone floor types such as:
- Marble
- Travertine
- Slate
- Quartzite
- Limestone
For external areas, effective cleaning of mosses, lichens and algae, tyre marks and oil stains can be performed using a Kärcher Cold or Hot Water Pressure Washer for smaller areas such as pathways or hard-standings. For medium sized areas a Cold or Hot Water Pressure Washer can be combined with a hard surface cleaner to provide a more efficient and larger cleaning area. Hot Water Pressure Washers can even be combined with a specialist tool for effective weed control using just hot water to kill weeds in a very ecologically friendly way without using harmful herbicides. For cleaning larger areas such as concourses and precincts, the Karcher B300 RI is an ideal machine as it sweeps and cleans the floor in one pass, ensuring that large areas can be cleaned effectively and very rapidly.
If you want to hire any of these types of machines, please take a look at the range of machines below or get in touch with us to speak to one of our Hire Colleagues for further information or advice.
