Materiales Artesanales : Stone & Terracota

This client called us to go and see the terracotta floor of his house that presented an important problem of a large number of areas with a lot of embedded scum. This problem occurs especially in areas facing north where, because they are very dark areas and where moisture accumulates in winter, scum find the ideal place to thrive and on a terracotta floor without any protective treatment, they find a guest with porous surface where to be able to root strongly and in depth. The client had tried for a long time to remove the scum using pressurized water machines, managing to remove much of the surface but not being able to penetrate internal layers of the slab. In addition, this method of using pressurized machines is extremely damaging to mud floors; since these machines work at important pressure bars that damage the surface of terracotta floor and gradually wear it down until the terracotta slab starts to granulate and to get rid little by little and in many cases becoming ir...

In this work we had to proceed to the recovery of an interior terracotta floor in a detached house on a farm located in Vera (Almería). The soil that had been treated for a long time had the typical deteriorations due to the passage of time such as scratches, dull coloring and areas where the degree of waterproofing had been lost or began to do so. Here are some pictures of how we found the terracotta floor : The procedure to be followed was first to strip to remove any remaining old treatment, open the pore and clean stains that were embedded. Afterwards, rinse cleaning was carried out to eliminate remnants of saltpeter and leave the soil ready to dry in order to proceed with the treatment phase. State after pickling and cleaning phase : Finally after four days of waiting for the soil to dry completely, we returned to proceed to apply protective treatment for interior terracotta floors . In this case, the clients chose th...