James,
This could be a good job for you as long as you and your customer are on the same page. You will have to educate him somewhat.
As far as the glass I always tell them that it may need to be replaced and have them sign off on that. More likely the glass will be fine and look great when your done. However frosted glass will look a lot less frosty.
Upstairs you will be polishing but from the pics the grout looks sanded-if so you will need to replace that grout with unsanded.
I would do this first and come back days later schedule permitting to start grinding. You may want to plan on using the same grout color for the fill as well.
If the lippage is bad float the whole floor it will be easier to grind.
I would wait to see how the stone opens up-but for your first grinding job i suggest you use grout mixed with latex.
If you chose polyester it will be harder to take it off if you don't lay it out thin.
I would plan on two grinding cuts followed by 50 then 100 grit resins. Then fill the stone keeping your fill smooth and slightly above the voids.
If you use grout come back two days later and grind off using 220 resins. If you have a uniform floor at this point you can chose weather to continue honing till 400-800 and polish.
On the lower floor you will follow the same procedure except you can probably leave the sanded grout in as you are honing. Keep the hone low like around 150-280 grit honing powder. Of course you will have to see how the other stones react to a lower grit honing. But this may be a good time to use a color enhancer. You may need an extractor to keep the grout lines clean of honing powder. If you have some diamond impregnated pads they may work better in some cases.
Will you be polishing or honing downstairs?
First Issue-sanded or unsanded grout
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM, James Billeaudeau
<james@diamondmarblepolishing.com> wrote:
Hello Partners,
I've visited with a potential customer at his home in Baton Rouge who is interested in flattening his 4 yr old travertine floor that was very poorly installed. There is lippage of varying thickness everywhere throughout. It totals roughly 2000 sq ft downstairs, and 300 sq ft upstairs in a master bathroom. From the pictures you can see multiple types and colors of stone and stone designs downstairs, and there are glass tiles embedded in the installation upstairs. Is there any potential problems flattening with the multiple stones downstairs? How would you recommend handling the glass tiles while grinding and polishing upstairs? What product is best to fill the opened pores after grinding? I appreciate the great advice from many of you before on flattening polished marble, but I don't know if all the same techniques apply in flattening travertine. I remember during my training where John and I visited a flattening job like this one he had going in Melbourne, FL, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with procedure, but I'm not fully confident with timing and pricing this one. All advice on how to approach and price this one would be appreciated. I'd like to provide as accurate a quote as possible as he's very much interested in restoration rather than replacement. Thanks very much in advance.
James L. Billeaudeau
Diamond Marble Polishing
Lafayette, Louisiana
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