Paul Bunis
Xtremeclean Tile/Boston Stone Restoration
Specialty Stone Care
781-793-0700
617-719-8454

"begin with the end in mind."

In a message dated 12/9/2010 3:57:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, walter@midatlanticstonesolutions.com writes:

New Look has a bio-degradable stripper that works great but it's a little on the costly side. Much better than the Soy products on the market. Go to www.getnewlook.com and the products are Easy Strip 1000 and 2000 I believe. They will remove glue, black mastic, epoxies etc. Hope this helps.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM, <PBunis@aol.com> wrote:

Adam

I know that you have a ton of experience in stone restoration, but I just want to share a quick story about a job I finished yesterday. Ive been trying to get work with a management company in town for several months so when they called me and asked me to bid on an upscale condo building floor restoration, I was psyched. I did the vestibule (terrazzo floor and tea rose walls) last month. This month they asked me to do the floor in the lobby. "Its covered by carpet" they said, "but we pulled it back and its all carrera". I took the job after looking at the part the referred to. I included a part in my contract (written by my brother, a really good lawyer) that said even though I saw a piece of marble, I cannot be responsible for what I cannot see. Fast forward, the carpet comes up an the floor is all 120 year old nasty tile,NOT MARBLE, except for one piece that was part of a stair, and its covered with so much carpet adhesive you can barely see the tile. I tried many strippers without success. I just spent the last two days on my knees with a 4" razor scraper manually stripping this crap. The good news is that I will get paid and although disappointed that the floor aint marble, the client noted the improvement. The bad news is that no matter how good your disclaimer is, you can still get screwed or in my case, screw yourself.

You don't need that job. Tell Mrs. Jones to find a janitorial company to strip the floor and maybe you will come back after that. STRIPPING SUCKS. Nomatter how you do it.

Paul Bunis
Xtremeclean Tile/Boston Stone Restoration
Specialty Stone Care
781-793-0700
617-719-8454

"begin with the end in mind."

In a message dated 12/9/2010 12:44:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, info@restoreyourtiles.com writes:

Partners,

5 months ago I bid the project to strip urethane finish and repolish marble in residential foyer and powder room. Sensing problems and difficulty stripping the floor I bid very high praying that customer never calls me. Guess what, she called and she offered to strip the finish by herself. I agreed to refinish the marble afterwords and accepted the project with some other things like cleaning her ceramic floor in kitchen and fixing some grout issues. Now, when we already done with those other things, she backed out of the stripping job and wants us to do it.

So I got few questions for you to help me do that stinky project most efficiently.

1. Can you strip Minwax polyurethane wood floor finish using something other than methylene chloride?

2. Can I use black pad for stripping (I have to hone it at minimum 220 grit anyway to remove possible scratches)?

3. What would you use other than black pad?

4. Can that finish be ground off with lets say 100 grid metals and can that be quicker than stripping?

5. What past experience did you have with similar projects and what I have to be aware of?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Adam Bartos

BiO Tile

PS Waiver to sign about paint, woodwork and fumes is almost ready.

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781-793-0700
617-719-8454

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