Try not to allow for the powders to dry, this is where I use my standard vac rather than my walk behind to ensure I suck it all out. If it does then as you soap it up use a grout brush to loosen the powders while your scrub brushing the floor and then again I suck it out using the wand rather than the walk behind.

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From: Roger Konarski [mailto:qm144@yahoo.com]
Sent: October-11-09 10:22 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Honing vs Cleaning and Seal

How effective is marble soap in removing the honing powders from the grout?

--- On Sun, 10/11/09, anthony@777-7797.com <anthony@777-7797.com> wrote:

From: anthony@777-7797.com <anthony@777-7797.com>
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Honing vs Cleaning and Seal
To: "Restoration and Maintenance" <sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 9:18 PM

For limestone, I hone it first but then clean it with marble soap to help me remove that white film and leave a really perfect color.

antonio

From: Stuart Young [mailto:santafefc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: October-11-09 10:09 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [!! SPAM] RE: [sccpartners] Honing vs Cleaning and Seal

My experience with this is cleaning travertine in a showroom. The stone was very dirty. I cleaned it 1st with an alkaline cleaner and theen used 800 grit honing powder. I compared that to a sectiion where I only used the honing powder instead of cleaning 1st. When I did the 2 steps the stone was slightly cleaner looking.

From: Roger Konarski <qm144@yahoo.com>
Subject: [sccpartners] Honing vs Cleaning and Seal
To: "Restoration and Maintenance" <sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 5:12 PM

All,

On a new installation, such as limestone. If one hones the floor with loose abrasives, to give it a more consistent finish. Is there any reason to scrub the floor 1^st with a neutral cleaner to remove surface residue? Wouldn’t honing powders also clean the surface?

Thanks,

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