Baird,
The resin terrazzo is no harder to do than cement based
terrazzo. If the floor is coated with wax the first step is to strip the
floor. Then you can determine where you need to start.
I find that most terrazzo is left at a 80 to 100 grit terrazzo
plug. These diamond have a tendency to leave a deeper scratch pattern behind.
If the floor has never been cut before then I would start with a
50 resin then 120 ,220 400, & 800 . the reason I would go this high is due
to the dark stone and the dark / black resin. Then polish it.
On these floors it not a bad idea to do a light application and I
mean light application of crystallization it will bring out a brighter shine.
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Baird Standish
[mailto:bairdstandish@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:41 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] Restaurant Terrazzo
Hi,
We are looking at t terrazzo floor in a restaurant (see
photos below). I have a fair amount of experience with cementious based
terrazzo but this looks like perhaps a resin base, and there is more resin than
there are stones. I was told that the floor was cut before (which may be)
but the managers don't really know much about it and it appears that the floor
has a thick layer of acrylic. My experience with cementious based
terrazzo is that the rocks get pretty glossy but not the cement unless I cut it
as if it were a concrete floor (many honing levels and no polish). Does
anyone have any suggestions about this stuff? I am doing a little test on
Monday.
Thanks.
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Baird Standish
Managing Partner
Facility Specialists, LLC
1616 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-732-7505
Fax: 215-546-9160
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