My first diamond drive pad I purchased from VMC about 20 years ago and it was some male Velcro glued onto a cut out section of that flexible clear plastic floor matt material that office chairs go on, it even has cleats on the back. It was placed under a nylon pad. Wish I still had it, will be making a new one for sure.

 

 

Mike,

 

Here’s how I would approach this job.

1.       I would clean the floor using a neutral cleaner or a striper / degreaser using a soft brush, this will go into the grout lines and this would help remove any loose sand from the grout. Not all but most.

2.       Then if the floors has scratches I would hone with a 220 then 400

3.       I would velcro my diamonds onto a hog hair pad. Using at least 4 or 5 diamond pads , this will give you pads some flexibility and where the stone is not flat go into those areas better.

4.       Then I would polish with Stonecare Central 5X polishing powders.  Caution ALL so call 5X powders are not created equal, I know the 5X polishing Powders from Stonecare Central will work.

5.       As always the proper time is important on the honing and the polishing to achieve the deswired results.

If you polish after the 400 on this stone the result will be very good, I would put in my contract stating that the floors contains sanded grout and therefore anytime during the honing or polishing process sand could be pulled from the grout and therefore you cannot guarantee a totally a scratch free floor.

 

In my training I teach the proper timing methods for honing and polishing to assure you get the results   every time on every stone.

 

 

John E. Freitag

President/Director

The Stone and Tile School

Office 407-567-7652

Cell 407-615-0134

jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com

 

 

www.thestoneandtileschool.com

 

 

 

I have this job coming up with this agglomerate. Have not worked on one of these in many years, any thoughts? Has sanded grout so I steered them away from a full flattening, concerned it will come out in places and scratch, also do not want inconsistent looking joints as some will be ground in and others will not, did not price to flatten the edgework, rather to blend. There is metal schluter type expansion joints, stainless steel by the looks, and thinking if I do not completely grind these in I will have to stay off them. So now selling them on a re-hone (220-800/1800 resins) grind then 5x. I want to keep it simple and I could not charge THAT much more for the full grind to justify all the additional risks…   

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