Preview of a 30 year old floor semi started

So, heres an example of what your tile might look like under that mess.

The picture is an example of 30 years time gone by without the tile being stripped. You become acustomed to what this looks like and in a period of time start to believe that this is what the tile should look like. Well, no. This is not the case. The clean part is what your tile should look like. I personaly stripped this section. Because of the long period of time that went by with out proper treatment, the coats of sealer added during this long period of time kept getting yellower and yellower. If you look closely, you can see this.

look even closer and yo can see how dirty the grout was before and how the grout looks in the stripped area looks now. This area took me 30 minutes to do. Yes, very long. It takes time to do this properly and if anyone rushes this job it coold lead to mistakes being made and things going very wrong. The companies I worked for love to do this. They rush the job and hope nothing goes wrong with your floor. In the case that something went wrong.....they will offer to fix it for free and sometimes not for free. Its a lose lose situation for the customer. You lose valuable time you could have been doing something else rather than being home while your floor gets done, or lose more money to fix the mistakes they made!

So you decided to do this yourself. Well, I can give you a step by step how to. soon as I get some readers. I need some expamples of floors and images to be emailed to me. No floor is the same and sometimes it takes different steps. I wouldnt want you to mess up your floor because you did extra things to your floor.

Relax, I have an alternative its called a "clean and seal"

you will have to spend about 70$ worth of supplies. my next blog post will cover this. I will post images of the cleaners and brushes and maybe some grout epoxy colorants to make your floor look almost new >.< (doing this sometimes can save you hundreds of dollars and all you need is some elbow grease and some time to clean and reseal your floor.)

soooooo, tune in... :)