Trust you all are having a fine Easter weekend.

 

 

   The prescription was 220, 400 & 5X polish. Everything went fine up until the polish. After drying there appeared to be splash etching marks on the stone. My first assumption was that the mix ratio of the neutral cleaner was too light, so I quadrupled it. Repeated the polish which removed the etch marks, only to have new ones appear.

 

   Okay, so maybe using the pump sprayer to lay down the neutral barrier wasn't such a good idea, even though it appeared flooded. Switched to the academic bucket & mop method. Took extra care to lay it down thick. Yet still the marks appeared.

 

   The only other variable was how I removed the slurry. Used both wet vac & our truck mount spinner. Neither seemed to make a difference.

 

   I even tried just doing 10 sq at a time before extraction, as opposed to the normal 20. Same problem.

 

   http://bit.ly/HoGh4T

 

   Not a great photo, but the etch marks should be obvious.

 

   I was even sparing on the 5X as I discovered that the one pound container we had was only going to cover 250 sq.

 

   I know I'm a newbie, but this is ridiculous. Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong?