Can you color CA? Most of those cracks look like a black hair (dirt
inside) and need to have color to make them invisible.
From: fhueston@gmail.com
[mailto:fhueston@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dr Fred
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:08 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] thin cracks in travertine
you can also use CA glue to
fill them if you have trouble getting the glue into the hairline cracks.. This
glue is used by fabricators to repair hairline cracks
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, John Freitag <jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com>
wrote:
Stuart,
I would approach this crack the
following ways
1. First purchase some dental tools from
the local Army Surplus Store. Or if you know a dentist ask them for their old
tools what you are looking for is the professional dental pic
2. Use the dental tool and acetone clean
out the crack this should eliminate the dark area in the crack.
The dental pic will not open
the crack any larger than it currently is.
3. Use a Polyester fill Clear if
possible and the crack will be filled and you will hardly notice it.
What
making the crack noticeable is the dirt that down in the crack remove the dirt
fill the crack.
If the
clear is not of your choice then mix a color to best match the stone.
I
always tell my customer that a crack is a crack and the customer will always
know where the crack is but the average person coming into the home would not
notice it.
Hope
this helps
John
E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
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specified.
From: Stuart Young [mailto:santafefc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:12 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] thin cracks in travertine
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I just looked at a floor of travertine tile. It has very thin cracks
(hairline)a few feet long in 3 different areas. How are these cracks
repaired? The travertine is light in color and the thin cracks are
dark.
This happened to me using VMC
Kleerseal a long time ago, when flouro polymer technology was new and this
was one of the first of these type sealer, water based. Don’t know why it
happened but it was very noticable. From: rosen.stuart@gmail.com
[mailto:rosen.stuart@gmail.com]
On Behalf Of stuart rosen last year I used a water based sealer witch our customer spec out for
us.We sprayed the sealer on limestone and it caused very light etching.We had
only just began when we caught it so it was easy to correct.When I read
the back of the bottle the instructions mentioned some stones can be etched by using this product.Showed that to
the customer and got the ok to use a product that we knew. Anyway just heard a story that it happened to someone else only with a
different water based sealer. I think siloxanes are corrosive
(high alkaline) when not diluted. But I know that diluted in a sealer they are in small amounts so its not
normal for this to occur. Does anyone know why it does occur. Has anyone else
had this happen to them?
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