Couple of bits I didn't mention. I repeated the cleaning and washing stage several times to work through the grime making sure all was rinsed thoroughly before leaving to dry. Hopefully one day we will get to the restoration side of things. Check out Opus Tile Restoration on FB and IG for some pro info and before and afters! 👌

Love, it; so satisfying to watch things being maintained, renewed, held on to, given a new lease of life! (Especially in our ‘throw away’ culture). Your attitude to restore things and look after them reminds me of my late Grandparents, who also had a very similar floor to this in their pantry. 👍👏

Absolute genius Tim. I love this show. The look of concentration on your face as you went for the joy ride on the wife's sewing machine lol Freedom !!!

I stencilled the pattern of our encaustic tiles on the section of concrete. Many years ago (1940's) heating was put in and steel pipes put under the floor. A large area of concrete was left which looked awful. So I stencilled the existing pattern onto the concrete and it looks great. The house was built before 1840 and the tiles are original.

From what I understand Tile Tessellation are laid on a bed of "wet mortar" with tiles abutting one another. which means that you lay the bedding material and start laying tiles because if the bedding material dries you rip up all the work and start again. Only saw it once on a TV renovation show where a tiler was laying a tessellate pattern on a front entrance porch, dont know if the tile layer was accurate in what he was saying or doing but he did a great job it just looked stunning.

I always get so much more done when the wife and kids are out no distractions 😀 great work 👏

Them tiles are brilliant. It amazes me how good they look. The colours are still so vibrant after so long

I laughed out loud when you moved the princess dress to frame one of the kids after using the sewing machine!

That looks stunning. It must be very difficult to resist not replacing the missing tiles but it will take a while.

I didn't realize you had kept the tile floor! It looks wonderful. Hopefully, the rest can be restored at some point!

This is the video I've been waiting at least two years to see!! Love that floor! I tried to get those patchwork tiles but could not find them in Canada and would not buy from the states. Ended up having my tile setter cut patchwork shapes to my design from the large tiles we floored with, for a modernized black/white/grey take on the style, and we put an inlaid patchwork "tile rug" at each entry door. (Soaring labour cost but I love the result) I hope you're able to find tiles to fill in the other areas, it'll be a fussy job but will look fantastic. In the meantime, I wonder whether you could get some paint matched, and just stencil the patchwork pattern onto those concrete bits... Wouldn't a quilted wall hanging or throw in the same pattern and colours look great in one of the sitting rooms. But maybe leave that to Jo, eh? You have mad skills with everything except the sewing machine. I almost yelled at my screen...

Beautiful tiles and well worth preservation even though it looked hard work.

Can I ask how you dealt with pitted tiles? I noticed some of your white tiles had pits that were filled with dirt. We have a lot of those!

Man, I am an absolute sucker for a Minton floor. Great job.

My wife loved your comedy routine on the Janome.

Another job well done, 😂 It must be a old builders thing, you hold on to stuff like my old man, thinking it’ll come in handy for a job somewhere down the line. And sure enough it does. Keep up the good work 👍

Hi there I recently pulled up 3 layers of vinyl flooring in my kitchen(recently bought) 🤢to find the original quarry stone tiles underneath about 200 years old. I have the exact same issue as you where they used to have a Matt in the floor it really bugs me but I just cover it amazing how much a bit of sealer makes a massive difference you done a really good job well done keeping it original 👍🏼

This must of been a popular style of that time period. I’ve seen this almost exact pattern in so many homes. Normally from 1820s an up

Seeing you do all that scrubbing made me think you should have got cleaning attachments for a drill, I have some and they make doing tiles so much easier!

My exact tiles! I must give it a go! Thank you ❤

Is Bill burr moonlighting. Nice work

Hi bud the best knee pads i ever bought are the padded material one like wrestlers use or marital arts. I do have the plastic type but they kill my knees after a bit, love the floor😊.

Love these tiles they look great. Why not try and take up the ones next to the Matt well and have a full width Matt? That way you may have a few spare tiles if you can get them up in one piece. Love the channel guys keep the vids coming 👍🏼

always an inspiration keep it up bud

That window vac was surprisingly effecive at at removing the moisture. If you ever want those empty floor sections completed with a matching set of Victorian tiles talk to Tile Doctor who operate across the UK and specialise in this area.

Going to start on mine soon but got a few little ones missing.Where did you get the new blue and cream tiles from?

that looks great, i'm going to do that to the tiles in my hall. stupid amateur question i am sure but what is the yellow machine with the squeegee thing on?

A contender for The Great British Sewing Bee.

Woah! How did I miss this - the video I have been waiting for! EDIT: When you said you were going to dilute down the cleaner - what was the dilution ratio? Thanks!

Nice work, How did it hold up after time and wear? Did it start peeling off ?

Thank you so much for sharing!

What acid cleaner did you use?

I have a victorian property and the gunk from the carpet is still on it I'm ganna try and use tile doctor and a few hours of scrubbing would this work?

What a treasure!

If you have to reset the mechanism of the sewing machine after botching it up with a very thick material, a 'how to' video would probably be appreciated. There aren't many decent ones and some sewing machine maintenance isn't that difficult if you have some guidance. Not that I've had a bad experience.

What is this yellow vacuum cleaner ?

mate i have the same floor near enough ty for this

Is the music a stylised Bob the Builder??

Really good. Thanks for sharing. What is that tool that looks like a shower scraper called?

The place is looking better and better, shame your moving after all the work.

Wow a Karcher product that lasted long enough to complete a job! Surprised the battery didn’t die after 5 minutes or the product simply fall to pieces which is what has happened every time I have bought one of their crap pieces of equipment including 5 of those window vacs that all refused to recharge.. Apart from that interesting video.

What are your plans for the floor area where your dog is laying?

Sorry the dog got so excited while you were working. Did you check to see if he was breathing?

That STAIRCASE. LOL why the hell do people tear the original down!!! Lol.

Original Style do all those tiles

One of those jobs where you put a shit-tonne of effort in and the missus asks "what have you done today?"

Step 1: Frame the kids Step 2: Put confession video on the internet.

I find it a shame that you didn't explain what you were doing and what product you were using when we see you clean. We don't know if it's just water at the beginning for example

Did you consider how much damage incurs to your lovely dog inhaling these chemicals and not put your dog somewhere with less harm not good

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