This soft porous stone absorbs every days soils both dry and wet much like a Berber/loop  does, every thing sticks to the surface and stares at you right in the eye.

and mopping just makes it worse..

These two Labredoodles mucked up this floor after we steam cleaned it in  just a few short months.

A stone cleaners best friends..

Luckily, the home owner had us Dry Treat the floor so now we can come back and quickly and efficiently steam clean it for the same price as regular carpet cleaning.

Due to Dry Treat’s durability, our process will not remove it so the cost of resealing is avoided for many years.

here is the floor after cleaning..

This says it all...

Click here to see floor being cleaned..

Grout is too white..

As you can see the wrong color was used and the contrast was way to strong..

So we Color corrected the grout with out removing it with a durable acrylic/concrete based color seal in Kahlua Cream..

Much more homoginous..

Our color sealing process is much safer and cheaper than removing the grout and the end result is beautiful, consistent color that is almost impossible to permanently stain.

Call Connoisseur to have your dirty or mis-colored grout situation corrected today!

 Connoisseur is now excited to offer professional deep cleaning of all type of wood floors.

Whether you have Solid, Engineered, Parquet, Laminate or Veneered, from Oak to Bamboo to Cork, we can clean them all!

Watch this video to get a brief explanation of how our cleaning machine works..

We also offer an application of gloss or satin refinishes. This coating will bring back the luster of your worn wood flooring and provide protections from soil, water and foot traffic.

Our system does not involve sanding so deep stains, scratches and damaged areas will remain.

For a free quote and assessment of your flooring please call our office to set an appointment

update-

We performed a test at a popular Santa Cruz Sandwich shop today..

As you can clearly see, the long term effects of using a string mop and a bucket on a wood floor.

We’ll be cleaning the whole floor next week.

Amazing results!

Just six months old and already permanently stained. That is what happens when the grout (very porous!) does not get sealed after instillation. Staining from drink spills, mud and dirty mop water and the like will darken your grout at home as well as a heavily trafficked commercial setting like The Nick in no time at all.

Here is a grout line after we steam cleaned it two times, once with a strong alkaline de-greaser and again with an acid cleaner to etch the surface of the grout in hopes to expose clean grout underneath. As you can see the results were poor due to very deep saturation of the various soils.

Stained Grout

And here is the same grout line after we applied our “Grout Perfect” Color Seal in the same Antique White color. Our Color Seal product is a dye made of concrete and and acrylic that bonds to the grout line in seconds but should last a life time if properly cared for. Not only does the product hide old stains but makes future clean ups a breeze. Soils will not be able to penetrate the Acrylic surface no matter how long they sit on the surface.

Color Sealed Grout

 

This is a photo of the lobby before we started, notice how the dark, soiled grout lines really stand out. From a distance it does not look so bad but in person and up close it really bothered the owners and management team.

and us!

 

 

Before...

 

Now look at the effect the Perfect Grout has on the room..

 

 

Just like new!

Definitely not one of our dirtier jobs (or even close to it) but excellent results and very happy customers.

They will be thrilled with how easy it will be to maintain the floors/grout now.

DIY Grout Cleaning Video

or if you have a better things to do, just call Santa Cruz ‘s favorite Professional Tile, Stone and Grout cleaner to take care of your cleaning project in a fraction of the time and with much better results.

1.A non-toxic neutral cleaning solution is applied to the grout lines and worked into the pores to loosen embedded dirt and oils.
2.The solution and soil is then washed off with our tidy high pressure, contained rinsing system.
3. After forced drying, Grout Perfect® Color Seal is applied to grout by hand with apatented brush to insure an even application.
4.The final step is to clean or buff the entire surface to remove any cleaner or Color Sealer residue from the tile. Your floor will be ready for use in just a few hours.

Soiled Commercial Bath Room Before and After..

And another...

Residential Bathroom Before..

And After...

Color Sealing will fix mix matched grout colors, fading, deep staining or if you’re just tired of that 1970′s Avocado Green and would like a nice Summer Wheat instead.

Tile, Stone, Wood, Vinyl, Concrete, Laminates..

Any and all hard floor surfaces will come and stay cleaner with this fine little machine.

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Wash, vacuum and dry all non-carpeted hard surfaces with the Hoover FloorMate . Seven scrubbing brushes cover a 15-inch cleaning path, and the dual tank design allows you to have separate tanks for clean and dirty water so you don’t put dirty water on clean floors.

Hoover FloorMate SpinScrub 800

Make sure to have plenty of Neutral pH cleaning on hand for using with this machine. We recommend Lemon Clean available from Coast Paper Supply in Santa Cruz

151 Josephine St, Santa Cruz

The tile setters goofed and used at least 4 shades of white on this floor.  None of which looked very good.

The owner of this Santa Cruz business is thrilled with the new look were have provided with our Color Sealing process

Before..

After...

What a difference!

The owner and staff are thrilled with the final look.

New grout, old grout, uneven color, stained, Avocado green, blotchy, or just plain ugly…

Give us a call to see what we can do to improve your grout’s outlook!

Enhancing penetrative sealers provide protection against oil and water based soils, dirt grime, mold as well as providing a wet look but with out the shine.

Here are some photos of a flagstone floor we recently cleaned and enhanced. You can really see a nice deep “enhancing” of the stone’s natural colors..

Flagstone Dining Room

before and during...

Done!

Inside or out if you have dull lifeless stone surfaces that need steam cleaning and sealing or enhancing give Santa Cruz’s finest rock cleaners a call.