Hello Stuart,Using diamonds like roger said is the way to go-you may have been able to get the deep scratches with 120g on your floor machine.Then use 220,400 and 800 if you want more clarity.Then polish with a quality polishing powder like 5x or what ever you are comfortable using. Was it MB-12 you used-16 is for granite.Mb-12 should be used wet to dry-takes some practice to get it.Also requires a stronger machine.Honing powders work well when you want a honed finish-cant beat them for that.Using them to prep a floor for polishing in conjuntion with norton pads will give you a wax like finish when you polish. The fiber pads simply dont work as well as resin diamonds. Yes they have their place for sure but I dont think they can match factory finishes.With polishing powders you can in some cases do better than factory polish.On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Hector Castillo <hectorcastillo@comcast.net> wrote:
Looks like a floor someone called about lipage removal.
Did you clean the floor between grits?
Hector Castillo
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From: Stuart Young [mailto:santafefc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:05 AM
To: Stone and Tile PROS Technical Support
--Subject: [sccpartners] Polishing marble
Good morning. We are working on a marble floor in a bathroom that had some
fairly deep scratches in it. We concentrated on the deeper scratches with
an angle grinder and were able to get them out. On the rest of the floor we
used 180 honing powders up through 3000 diamond Norton pads and we polished
with MB16 in some areas and 5x in other areas (to see if there was any
difference in the polish - there wasn't much difference).
We will probably need to grind the whole floor down and go deeper, but even
when we have done this on other floors in the past, we are not able to get a
really nice polish on it - certainly not like the factory finish. Are we
overlooking something? What might we try to get a better polish? Does it
matter what sort of marble we are dealing with? A picture of the floor we
are currently working on is attached.
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