Hi I am managing a job where the plaster has trodden multi finish plaster into a new slate floor that was yet to be sealed. It remained there over the weekend rather than being cleaned up immediately.

Can anyone recommend any cleaning products or other methods that we can use to bring the slate floor lokking back to how it should.

Cheers
Alex

You need to remove as much of it as possible before wetting it, hoover all the dust up, get it out of the grout lines if you have not grouted yet. Then I would be using plain old water and lots of it, have two or three buckets with a sponge in each one and do a metre at a time, then replace the dirty water, keep doing this until the water stays clean.
When its all dry get it sealed.

And dont use the messy plasterer again, he is obviously a bit dim for not using dust sheets.

Click on the link for your sealer, you wont get better than these.

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some plasterers are just stupid!!!

Yeah dim alright.
It was a young lad with the plasterer.
Not sure if the water method is gonna be enough as i have tried that already. Might just have to try harder although when it dries there is still a reidue where the plaster appears to have soaked into the porous slate.

Originally Posted by tux75

Yeah dim alright.
It was a young lad with the plasterer.
Not sure if the water method is gonna be enough as i have tried that already. Might just have to try harder although when it dries there is still a reidue where the plaster appears to have soaked into the porous slate.

Have you tried brick acid? That will shift it for sure, make sure you dilute it down.

hello,my 1st port of call would be the plasterer...id be expecting him to pay for any issues your having,if there is one thing i cant stand its trades leaving mess like that

The trouble is we all know about about un-sealed stone, and the plasterer does not. Did you have the area taped off to stop people walking on it? Did you tell the plasterer to be very careful not to get any plaster on the slate...Dont think you can really blame him, plastering is a messy job..unless he was told i think its down to you to sort it out.

Just to add to Enduro's post..

What was the plasterer doing working on an unfinished floor..???

i was going to write something similar to what andrew and dave wrote but i thought nahh, it'll look like i am defending the plasterers union lol

gotta admit tho, if it were my floor and it hadnt been sealed, then id of definately definately made sure it was covered and people were made fully aware!!! your the tiler, the responsibilty lies at your feet, not your plasterers ( excuse the pun)

Originally Posted by enduro

The trouble is we all know about about un-sealed stone, and the plasterer does not. Did you have the area taped off to stop people walking on it? Did you tell the plasterer to be very careful not to get any plaster on the slate...Dont think you can really blame him, plastering is a messy job..unless he was told i think its down to you to sort it out.

you cant be serious? plastering may be a messy job...thats what sheets are for. anyone who thinks its acceptable to make a mess of anyones elses property by trampling plaster all over the floors shouldnt be there in the 1st place totally unprofessional

sorry andrew that sounded like a rant at you and it wasnt meant to be that way...

ive had a similar experience with a plasterer this week lol who decided to trample plaster all over a viccy floor and over the customers carpets

i know plastering is messy but i expect any trde whos attached to my work/jobs to leaver the customers house as they found it,if it was me and a plasterer made a mes sof my floors id be asking for them to clean it at there expense

on a domestic job, id totally agree with you jaime but sometimes on sites, tradesman are always doing things like this.

i was working with phil hobson last week and we were on a site in manchester. while we were there, one of the decorators walked on the victorian tiling, then a joiner was on the scaffolding and started drilling and the dust and k-rap went all over the adhesive and in the end, we had to lock the doors, make all the other trades use the back door and barracade off the front of the shop to stop people walking on the floor while we were away so site situatations cause trades to think, arr it'll all be cleaned at the end by cleaning contractors and they arnt as careful as they sometimes should be.

Originally Posted by Dave

Just to add to Enduro's post..

What was the plasterer doing working on an unfinished floor..???

Exactly!!

Bloomin plasterers, messy oiks the lot of them.....















Only kidding lads!

A good tip is to do the plastering before the floor finish is installed, if this is not possible though that roll and stroll floor protector is good stuff I find.

plastering, tiling, then skirtings should be the order (imo)

Originally Posted by doug boardley

plastering, tiling, then skirtings should be the order (imo)

What about mug of tea...that should be in there!!!

Originally Posted by Deri

A good tip is to do the plastering before the floor finish is installed, if this is not possible though that roll and stroll floor protector is good stuff I find.

damned slippy tho Deri if your skimming a wall, drop sheets are better

Originally Posted by doug boardley

damned slippy tho Deri if your skimming a wall, drop sheets are better

Not really, if u are a good plasterer u don't splash loads of water about and the amount of pink on the floor is minimal.
Messy plasterers give us clean ones a bad name!

Originally Posted by Deri

Not really, if u are a good plasterer u don't splash loads of water about and the amount of pink on the floor is minimal.
Messy plasterers give us clean ones a bad name!

I thought I was a clean plasterer, water on a polythene surface tho Deri is slippy, don't matter how clean you work, there's always some kinda spillage.

Originally Posted by doug boardley

I thought I was a clean plasterer, water on a polythene surface tho Deri is slippy, don't matter how clean you work, there's always some kinda spillage.

For sure it is, but if it's damage limitation we are talking about anything that will have a chance of staining the floor ie gypsum and dirty water it won't go through polythene. I'm happy using it even on stilts doing ceilings

Plasterer was working in a different part of the house. It was a new lad with him that went walkies - moron!!

so if the lads new? and the floor wasnt covered or blocked off, then is he really the moron??

the best plasterer I've used made his apprentice put the roll and stoll type stuff all over the work and mixing areas. Came in Monday and found it absolutley spotless, even the window frames were washed

On the other foot, I did a slate floor and put the same stuff on the floor before the kitchen fitters came in. peeled it off after completion and looked the business