Kris,
You would use the StoneCare Central Marble
Cleaner if it’s marble and if it’s granite use the Granite
Cleaner or on Ceramic Tile the Ceramic tile Cleaner. These
are the same products they should be using daily. They will
need to change their water more often due to the salt
residue.
John E.
Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Kris Dougherty
[mailto:kris@marblefloorsandmore.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:32 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] salt and ice melt on
stone
What product are most partners using for
salt and ice melt residue on stone for daily mopping???
Kris
On 12/15/2010 10:23 AM, John Freitag wrote:
Stuart,
With hair line
crack with any stone they are tough to repair. In most cases
the cracks are noticeable because they have trapped dirt
within them. There are a couple ways to attack this.
go in and do a
good cleaning of the crack using an alkaline based stripper
. Get as clean as possible, then use acetone to flush out
the crack and dry the surface if the cracks are open enough
use a professional dental pick that can be purchased from
most Army Surplus store. Use the pick to scrape out the
crack and then flush with acetone again. The crack should be
clean and ready to fill. Use a flowing fill ( polyester
resin ) and fill the cracks. The flowing material will go
into these voids and the fills is complete. Allow the
product to harden and remove any excess material by either
using a single edge razor blade holding the blade straight
up and down and scrape off the excess or hone off the excess
materials.
The second way
is to use a small dermal tool and open the crack slightly
and then clean in the same process as above and use either
flowing or knife grade filler. This is my second choice of
repair and my least favorite
John E.
Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and
Tile School
Office
407-567-7652
Cell
407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Stuart
Young [mailto:santafefc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:45 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] hairline cracks
Gentlemen,
Yesterday
I went to do a price quote on restoring a travertine
floor. Besides the other usual problems, there were
extensive hairline cracks in some tiles. These hairline
cracks would extent sometimes 10 feet, which seem to
indicate a foundation problem. What can be done to these
cracks? Can I make them go away somehow? Is there some
sort of cosmetic procedure to hide them? Maybe color them
the same color as the tile? Please help if you have any
suggestions.
Stuart
Young
Santa
Fe Floor Care
----- Original Message -----
From: Polishedrock210@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] green agglomerate
John: since 1996 when we bought our first marble machines,because of the ease and reliability of a flat ground ,resin honed and polished finish, I have never had the opportunity to hone with powders, it was never a requirement for me.Look i dont want to waste your time, I have to assume on a job like this it would have to cost at minimum .50 per sq ft per step, if we started 50 honing powder, that's 6 steps to finish at least 3 bux a ft, plus travel. Job is near Ocala, but 3 a sq ft for them is out of their budget, would you be interested in a fair split where i bring my body and equiptment,compensate you fairly for experence? how quickly compaired to diamonds do powders work,what would be an approximate cost per ft for the powders?
In a message dated 12/13/2010 5:17:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com writes:
Scott,
if the lippage is bad you could actually hone the floor using honing powders. Them come in grits as low as 50, it wouldn’t remove the lippage but would remove most of the scratches except for those real deep one. Then hone the floors with powders up to 800 then polish with 5X. this would differently help the floor appearance
where the job located if you don’t want it I would be interested in it for my service company. If you are not going to take it
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Polishedrock210@aol.com [mailto:Polishedrock210@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:42 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] green agglomerate
sorry i did not take pictures, they dont want to pay me to grind and do this right, the job might only be about an hour away from you, if you are interested ill set you up with the right gal,or any ideas would be appreciated, thanks John; Scott Wilson
In a message dated 12/13/2010 4:21:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com writes:
Scott.
Can you send pictures ??
Perhaps I can give you some ideas on how to hone and polish this stone.
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Polishedrock210@aol.com [mailto:Polishedrock210@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 3:48 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] green agglomerate
I hope someone may have some experence with this material, A city hall in central florida has about 1400 sq ft of this dark green bordered by a lighter "crema marfil" type light border, It was poorly installed with extensive lippage on every stone, its shows extensive wear, with some deep scratches where someone drug heavy fruniture. the city cannot give me a week to grind lippage, nor do i want to take metal discs for extensive lippage removal , nor do i want to spend nights for the next 5 weeks with 50 resins,and the city will not spring for full restoration.I normaly do not do maintance type work , mostly full restoration, any sugestions beyond a deep clean and severalcoats of a "floor shine hardner" like Stampede Gold buffed then regular maintance. This man made green stone scares me to death, any help appreciated.
Scott ; Wilson Stoneworks Inc
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