From: rosen.stuart@gmail.com [mailto:rosen.stuart@gmail.com] On Behalf Of stuart rosen
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 11:32 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Stone identification

Austin,

Fred is right- Rainforest brown is a hard stone to work with. Even taking this stone up high with diamonds you will seem to get an irregular finish.

Definitely finish with a granite polishing compound. I am sure there are several that will do the trick.

I dont want to sound biased or out of line so I will leave it at that. I attached some pics someone sent me of rainforest green. I think the brown is harder but you can deliver a good finish.

We do a lot of travertine-If we are grinding the stone and finishing with a honed surface we use grout mixed with latex filling after 120 grit. We wait a day or so and remove using 120 resins or and or excalibers. Then finish with diamonds and honing powders. Same for polished floors as polyester can be tough to work with.

If the floor isnt flat it is harder to remove the cured fill material.

 If the customer only wants the floor cleaned and honed we use either a latex modified grout or add a small amount of latex into the color of their choice. After we Finish the floor we use the grout and fill everything by hand and remove all signs of residue. We explain to them the differences in techniques. Today we find many customers do not want to pay for grinding travertine.

When it is an older floor they want the soil cleaned out,the surface refinished mostly honed sometimes polished and all the degraded or open fill in and around the traffic areas refilled. So we use a high pressure extractor,chemicals,diamonds,abrasive pads like the norton coarse and honing powders to get it done at a fair price. We would much rather grind them flat however.

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Fred Hueston <fhueston@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes that is Rainforest brown and it is not a grainte.   it can be tricky to get a good polish on it. Try taking it to a high hone and try granite polish instead of marble polish..

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Stu Rosen
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