Bona Stone, Tile and Laminate Floor Polish - 1L

I’ve used this on my kitchen and hall tiled floors. I find it excellent for wear and tear and once polished it lasts for months. The floors are easier to keep clean once the polish has been applied, I would recommend this product

Good

Brillant floor Polish

Now at first I applied it the way I would apply similar cleaning products: sprayed and stretched with a cloth, and it did not work, actually there were smudges all over the place. Then I decided to apply it in a little bit thicker layer, just a little bit. It says it needs about 1 hour before you can walk, so I simply used a brush, very flat one, sprayed the product and then used the brush so the surface becomes sufficiently and obviously just about wet so there is something to dry. It looked wet at first and although it did not look wet after a few minutes already, I did not walk on it for about an hour. And there you go: it looks shiny as expected. So just a little bit more of the product since it has to create a layer not just dust it off with a wet cloth as you would do usually with these products. Do test a little bit before applying. It looks to me that it is a very good product.

I've used this on two types of hard floor - grey slate in my utility room and limestone in the kitchen. Regardless of floor type the polish is very easy to apply. However the results between the slate and the limestone (in my case at least) are very different. I applied two coats to both types of surface and in each case followed the instructions to the letter. The final finish on the grey slate is excellent - absolutely uniform, clean and with a nice gloss, exactly what I was looking for. If I was just reviewing the slate I would give this product 5 stars. The limestone is a very different story. I should add that my floors were laid just over 12 years ago and have experienced fairly light use as I live alone. Both surfaces were professionally treated once laid but that protective layer has gradually worn and this has begun to show. I also made sure to clean the surfaces before glossing - using the Bona cleaner (note that this cleans Ok but leaves a dull and streaky finish regardless of stone type - at least in my case. So not impressed and would not buy again). After applying the polish to the limestone the initial 'wet' gloss finish looked very promising indeed. However this is not how it dried at all. The finish was at best (on a few tiles) uniform with more of a satin sheen than a gloss. I could have lived with that however many other tiles had a very uneven, dull finish - so across the floor no uniformity at all. It may be that this reflects the nature of limestone compared to slate as well as variable wear patterns across the floor (though you would be hard pressed to identify these with a visual inspection). Either way the end result is very disappointing. I would add that the dried polish appears to be hard and durable (which is good). I know this because I tried to hand polish up some of the unevenly dried tiles using a micro fibre cloth - just impossible. I'm now considering buying a floor polishing machine... So for what it's worth I would approach this product with caution and possibly do what I should have done - test it on an area of floor which may not be noticed. One last point - and I stand to be corrected here - I saw nothing in the product description or instructions which cautioned against using this on limestone).

Quick drying easy to use looks great

At first I thought this product was good until I tried to wash the floor as instructed by the manufacturer oh dear the floor became a gluey mess and my tiles seemed ruined I have had to scrape this mucky mess off of my lovely black studio tiles I feel like crying my floor looks dreadful I wish I had never used this diabolical stuff

very happy with the result

Exactly what I was looking for. Gave my tile floor a discreet glossy look. Will definitely use it again. Just hope that it will last 6 months....

... Produkt, für meine Zwecke (Laminat) optimal geeignet.

I need to learn properly how to use this product efficiently

Extremely difficult to apply, when it dryes out it gets hard, which is okay, the difficult part is to leave the layer uniformly spread on the floor.

I used this product but it didn’t work as described, I tried to redo & it just all balled up, not happy