James,
You have received a lot of good ideas from the partners how to handle this situation with the wood and the corners. Here is how I would address this job.
1. Using blue tape I would tape directly onto the wood floor.
2. Then I would apply the red tape on top of the blue tape to make this water area water resistant.
3. Then I would hone with honing powders in those corners to remove any damage or picture framing using my hand machine
4. Then repolish using 5X polishing powders
5. Clean up
6. Remove the tape and your are done.
If I understanding this job correctly, there are areas large enough to use a floor machine on then to get into the corners you need to do these by hand. So the taping process needs to be done regardless of how you address the corners. Seeing that the taping and protection is already done the honing powders seem to be an easy solution.
If you have any other questions on the above process please let me know
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: James Billeaudeau [mailto:james@diamondmarblepolishing.com]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:47 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] Marble Polishing Detail Work
Hi All,
I've just completed polishing a test area for a customer who has 500 sq ft of marble flooring that has been waxed for almost 30 years with acrylic floor wax. Needless to say, after removing the wax buildup and honing and polishing a test area, the difference was like day and night and they would like the entire floor done. The test area was at a rectangular front door entrance bordered by a wood floor on two sides with a wooden T-molding border. About an inch or so from the T-molding and at the 90 degree angles I wasn't able to hone or polish very well. You could see picture framing in the corners and about a one inch line along the T-molding where I couldn't overlap with the diamond pads or polishing powder. All suggestions on how to handle these area most efficiently would be appreciated. There are many more 90 degree angles and areas under kitchen cabinets that may pose the same problem. I do have a makita and 5" diamonds and understand that all this may be handwork, but some of the angles may be too small even for the 5" diamonds. Is there a smaller backer pad that we could use with 3" diamonds? I'm not aware to this yet, and if so, I must get one. This is my first "major" job and any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a million,
James
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