janet
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Does anyone have any advice on how I can clean the old quarry tiles we have taken up and are planning to relay on top of new floor with underfloor heating? I am currently soaking them in water with washing up liquid. I am then using elbow grease and slave labour - 2 sons - scraping off any old lime plaster and a following up with a good old fashioned scrubbing brush. They are coming up reasonably well but there is still some discolouring on the surface once scrubbed and I would like to get rid of this. It seems to be a whitish deposit in places.
The builder keeps muttering ' brick acid' but I don't want to put anything on that might attack them too much. They are about 100 years old, red and in old money 9 inches square and 1 and a quarter inches thick. We have 'done' 80 so far and my pessimistic elder son calculates we need 500 in total!
Many thanks, in hopeful anticipation,
Janet
The builder keeps muttering ' brick acid' but I don't want to put anything on that might attack them too much. They are about 100 years old, red and in old money 9 inches square and 1 and a quarter inches thick. We have 'done' 80 so far and my pessimistic elder son calculates we need 500 in total!
Many thanks, in hopeful anticipation,
Janet