Cleaning Paint Off Quarry Tiles

Cleaning a quarry tiled floor.

Cleaning paint off quarry tiles.

Step 2 mop your floor with a cleanser. Not the best product for maintaining the natural look of quarry tiles. You can use a bit of warm water for cleaning but wipe it up once the area is clean. Once the initial layer is removed apply another coat and wipe this one off with old rags.

Scrape up the section quickly and wipe the scraper blade on the edge of a bucket. The whole process was repeated several times as the paint was really stubborn and in places i had to remove the paint removal with a scraper. I managed to clean the floor with a strong dilution of tile doctor remove and go which was left to soak into the tiles for a while before being scrubbed in using a rotary machine fitted with a black pad. Also quarry tile is a porous type product and after you have removed the paint you will need to seal the bricks you have stripped clean.

The detergents you will need to clean quarry tiles alkaline tile cleaners. Wipe clean with remover after scraping. The elemens such as rain and algae pose a luminous. Continue with this for an area of about 1 square metre.

Cleaning quarry tiles to get the paint off the floor had to be soaked in a dilution of tile doctor remove and go which is a coatings remove and can pretty much remove. The resultant slurry was washed away using more water and a wet vacuum. This is only the case indoors as out doors the elements have almost certainly removed any wax and oil. Cleaning outdoor terracotta tiles is a whole other project seperate from cleaning indoor terracotta tiles.

Old quarry tiles were originally maintained with natural waxes and oils and due to the porous nature of these tiles there is usually some form of oil or wax in the tile. Scrape off paint with a plastic scraper held at a 45 degree angle. Because quarry tile is usually unglazed it can be stained if you re not careful. If there s no damage to the glaze proceed for the remainder of the tile.

Do not use a vacuum with a beater bar as this may drag grit across the tiles causing scratches to the sealer or wax. Removing bitumen from quarry tiles holding the heat gun above the surface watch for signs a slight bubble or wave appearance that the bitumen is starting to melt. Details below of a quarry tiled floor that we treated in long itchington which had previously been painted with an epoxy paint designed for garage floors. Scrape it off when it bubbles with a putty knife and wipe the knife as you go on a newspaper.