Restoring a tiled floor - part 2!!

[Simon]

OK, so the only responses I had from my last posting were two replies that both said - don't do it! Conserve what's there, don't restore.

Too late for that! One session with a floor scrubber later and all the muck that accumulated on the floor over the last 80 years or so is now down the sink! Tooke 3 sessions to clean!

Anyway, I know that I now have to seal the porous floor tiles - Could I use diluted Unibond or should I use a specific Tile Floor sealer?

The tile floor sealers say to leave the flor a few days to dry out thoroughly - if I used diluted Unibond, would this still be the case?

Cheers!!!

Simon

[Grunff]

Don't use PVA (UniBond). Use a terracotta tile sealer, such as one of the Lithofin products:

[Andrew Gabriel]

I don't think we said not to clean it, just warned you about the ongoing work if you subsequently dress it.

I suspect using Unibond (PVA) would be a disaster. It's a glue which softens when it gets wet (probably excellent for glueing your muddy footprints to the floor) and isn't transparent enough to use on something where you expect to see through it.