APT are amongst one of the UK’s highly trusted stone cleaning companies. Our stone cleaning service has been in operation for over 30 years, supporting organisations with stone cleaning throughout the UK.
When it comes to cleaning stone, building owners and managers are often faced with a dilemma – to clean stone or not to clean stone. Without cleaning stone, your building will not only continue to look unkept, but mosses, lichens, bird lime and pollutants can be damaging to the stone surface having accumulated over the years.
Stone cleaning services must be specialist, ensuring that they are using suitable stone cleaning products, whilst being sympathetic to the stone surfaces, ensuring that they remain undamaged. Commonly, companies just use abrasive discs, acid for stone cleaning, high pressure washing and grit (sand blasting) for stone cleaning. However, since APT are one of the longest standing stone cleaning companies in the UK we have developed not only non-damaging cleaning methods, but environmentally friendly ones too. Soda blasting is a unique method used to clean stone, it’s also suitable for cleaning paving stones, stone floor cleaning, cleaning a stone fireplace and can also be used to clean Indian stone.
Soda Blasting
APT have been using soda blasting for over 30 years, it’s one of our preferred stone cleaning techniques. Using a vortex of compressed air to carry specially graded sodium bicarbonate crystals, soda blasting will remove:
Lime & cement-based paints
Paint residues
Some old oil-based paints
Carbon and bitumen
Lime scale
Micro-organism blooms
Bird fouling
All other surface contamination
A huge benefit of using soda blasting as part of our stone cleaning service is that is can be used for cleaning the exterior of stone buildings, cleaning stone paving, for stone floor cleaning and can be used to clean sensitive objects such as cemetery stones and the like.
Save yourself the hassle of looking online for stone cleaning services near me and reach out today to APT for a free, no obligation quote for your stone clean.
When it comes to cleaning stone, building owners and managers are often faced with a dilemma – to clean stone or not to clean stone. Without cleaning stone, your building will not only continue to look unkept, but mosses, lichens, bird lime and pollutants can be damaging to the stone surface having accumulated over the years. Stone cleaning services must be specialist, ensuring that they are using suitable stone cleaning products, whilst being sympathetic to the stone surfaces, ensuring that they remain undamaged. Commonly, companies just use abrasive discs, acid for stone cleaning, high pressure washing and grit (sand blasting) for stone cleaning.
Stone cleaning requires effective and sympathetic cleaning methods. APT are one of the longest standing stone cleaning companies in the UK we have developed not only non-damaging cleaning methods, but environmentally friendly ones too. soda blasting is a unique method used to clean stone, it’s also suitable for cleaning paving stones, stone floor cleaning, cleaning a stone fireplace and can also be used to clean Indian stone. APT have been using soda blasting for over 30 years, it’s one of our preferred stone cleaning techniques. Using a vortex of compressed air to carry specially graded sodium bicarbonate crystals, soda blasting will remove:
Lime & cement-based paints
Paint residues
Some old oil-based paints
Carbon and bitumen
Lime scale
Micro-organism blooms
Bird fouling
All other surface contamination
When it comes to cleaning natural stone, the priority is to ensure that no damage is made to the surface material. Commonly, companies just use abrasive discs, acid for stone cleaning, high pressure washing and grit (sand blasting) for stone cleaning. However, since APT are one of the longest standing stone cleaning companies in the UK we have developed not only non-damaging cleaning methods, but environmentally friendly ones too. soda blasting is our preferred method used to clean any type of stone since it is an environmentally friendly cleaning method that is safe to use on all types of surface materials.
A huge benefit of using soda blasting as part of our stone cleaning service is that is can be used for cleaning the exterior of stone buildings, cleaning stone paving, for stone floor cleaning and can be used to clean sensitive objects such as cemetery stones and the like. Cleaning stone floors is paramount to ensure a good impression is provided to visitors, clients and staff who enter the building. When it comes to cleaning stone floors, its essential to ensure that the cleaning method does not leave any residues on the surface of the flooring, for example not leaving sticky residues or slippery residues. This could leave to damage and safety issues for individuals in the building.
Soda blasting is one of our preferred methods of stone cleaning and revitalising. This sympathetic brick cleaning method enables us to clean stone and other building facades without causing damage to the substrate materials and joint mortars. soda blasting uses precision compressed air to fire specially graded sodium bicarbonate crystals at the stone wall (or other brick surface) to remove any unwanted surface deposits. Working from the outside in soda blasting gently removes successive layers of contamination, until the suitable brick cleaning has been achieved. Soda blasting is an environmentally friendly stone cleaning technology that is not abrasive and will not damage stones and mortar.
“I would like to thank APT-ICC for their excellent work and assistance on the Barclays Bank project. They delivered the scheme and additional works on time and without issue thanks to Andrew and his team for all your extra effort, long hours and commitment. I look forward to using them on future renovations.”
Graham Lowe – Project Manager, Overbury Plc
“I would like to thank the team at APT for the hard work and flexibility in delivering this project on time and in overcoming some of the abnormalities suffered with recent weather and on-site movements of contractors. The result was outstanding, and I look forward to working with you in the future on similar projects.”
Dave Nicolas
Can be found on our sister company APT Commercial Chemicals via www.aptcommercialchemicals.co.uk
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