Kris,
Grinding wax off with metals may seem only to be faster but like Stu said the edges and corners need to be stripped anyway, So what's the point of grinding with metals? In addition, most terrazzo floors are finished with about 50 grid and if you lucky you may start with 100 resins and safe yourself a ton of time.
Adam Bartos
BiO Tile

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:28:31 -0600
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Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Terrazzo

Kris,
You cannot use resin diamonds to remove the wax-you could use metal diamonds depending on the amount of wax and the condition of the terrazzo.
Even if you use metals you will still have to strip the edges which are always loaded with wax.
Determine the condition of the terrazzo because if you can start with resins it may be a better option to use a good stripper and stripping pads.
We like to start with 50 grit resins on cementitious terrazzo if we dont use metals.It seems to smooth the matrix so we can get a better result.
Once you are at this point you can finish using any method you are comfortable with based of course on the job specifications and price.
  


 
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Vince <vpezzano@embarqmail.com> wrote:
If you would go thru stone and tile school you would know to use stripper degreaser.

Thank you Vincent Pezzano

On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Kris Dougherty <kris@marblefloorsandmore.com> wrote:

> I am going to natural polish about 5000 sqft of waxed terrazzo. Do I need to strip off the old finish with wax stripper or can I use a diamond to remove the finish.
> All comments are welcome.
> Kris
>
> On 12/16/2010 12:25 PM, John Freitag wrote:
>> Tony,
>>
>> I somewhat confused, perhaps I missed and email. This terrazzo floor was
>> ground at a 30 grit ???
>> What are they trying to remove are there stains in the terrazzo that need to
>> be removed??
>> Do you have any pictures you can send??
>>
>> If the terrazzo has no stains in it and the floors have been stripped then
>> hone the floor from a 30 up to a hone that can be polished. If there are
>> stains in the floor I need additional information, are these iron, stains ,
>> stains from glues stains for something else. Once we know this information I
>> can give you more advise.
>>
>>
>> John E. Freitag
>> President/Director
>> The Stone and Tile School
>> Office 407-567-7652
>> Cell 407-615-0134
>> jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
>>
>>
>>
>> www.thestoneandtileschool.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Excel Master Floor Care [mailto:excelmasterfloorcare@cox.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:34 PM
>> To: Restoration and Maintenance
>> Subject: [sccpartners] Terrazzo
>>
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> A company I have done work with is the one working on the Terrazzo floor.
>> They asked for my advice.  They have stripped the floor and I had suggested
>> the poultice but I wanted to make sure that I had given them the correct
>> advice.  Not sure why they used 30 grit.  Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Tony
>> Sent from my iPad
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