Cleaning Flag stones

russbigbelly

I have recently dug up my kitchen floor to replace with a 4 inch concrete floor.

The floor was orininally just huge (really nice) flag stones with a thin layer of self leveling for putting lyno down (Ithink).

Anyway I have managed to salvage the but they are still a bit minging.... Any ideas about cleaning these before I attempt to lay them ? and once they are down should I put some sort of lacquer on them to protect from flaking in the future ?

Any ideas or guidence in this would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Rus

Poppycat

You could try a powerwasher they are good at cleaning flagstones.

Mr_Warren_2

Get a Karsher or similar, protect all your equipment/units etc with plastic sheets and shoot. The stones will be cleaned in no time (you will have to spend the next 4 hours cleaning the mess but your floor will be spot on)

ormus

electric drill or grinder with a wire brush attachment. the mess will be awful though!
cover everything in poly sheet and have a vacuum cleaner operating next to the wire brush. close all doors except the door to the outside world.

fingerman

Jet wash will clean them up, use this for the driveway and it comes up great - might get a bit wet in the kitchen tho :think: