Black Polished Porcelain stains, HELP!

[swiss]

Hi all,

My brother in law has just laid 18m2 400mm x 400mm black polished porcelin tiles in my kitchen, but where they have been walked on in trainers, not overly dirty just bit of dust its marked the tile and i cant get it off, its not like a stain as such its as if its imprinted on the tile, there's a fair few other marks as well, I've been back down the tile shop and they said they should have been sealed before being layed but they never told me that. If worse comes to worse I think they'll pay for them if they need to come up but thats really last resort. Does anybody know anything that would get rid of the marks, i tried a porcelin cleaner but it didnt do a thing. Would a floor polisher work? Or a stronger cleaner? There not grouted yet.


Thanks in advance.

 

[brian c]

yes they should have been sealed.I am sure fila do a product.i will try and find it for you.

 

[DHTiling]

Do the tiles have a transit wax on them..?...

 

[swiss]

Dave you'll have to bare with me I'm not to clued up in terms of tiling not my fortay, what do you mean by 'transit wax'?

 

[DHTiling]

Some polished porcelain tiles have a transit wax on them to prevent stains etc whilst in transit ..say from china...


Did the tiles have a high gloss from the start...like out of the box..?

 

[swiss]

Not overly glossy as I remember when I took the sample home I cleaned it with glass cleaner to see how much it would clean up. But say that it did have the transit wax surely it would be wrong to seal them before laying?

 

[DHTiling]

Deffo seems like you have a transit wax....polished porcelain is like a mirror unless it has a protective wax on...and sealing with a penetrating sealer will not work.

Lithofin do a remover called Abra clean..this removes the transit wax and allows a penetrating sealer to seal the porcelain surface and thus allows easier cleaning and that high gloss to be achieved..

 

[brian c]

cheers Dave ,couldnt remember the name.

 

[david campbell]

cheers Dave ,couldnt remember the name.

i think the fila one is just called wax-remover,would use the abra clean though

 

[DHTiling]

i think the fila one is just called wax-remover,would use the abra clean though

A general wax remover isn't the same as this transit wax....needs a grainy remover to shift it...nano scrub i believe does the same..