Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 10:07:17 -0400
To: Restoration and Maintenance<sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
Subject: RE: FW: [sccpartners] Question
Travertine should be pretty easy to polish. You may want to play with your polishing technique. Sometimes you can go wet to dry and get better results. Make sure you work the powder and your slurry long enough. Great advice gang
From: John Freitag [mailto:jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 9:29 AM
To: 'Restoration and Maintenance'
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Question
Paul,
In regards to your question on the green marble the first thing I see is that you skipped a diamond grit, you cannot skip diamond grits especially the lower grits. Remember the first diamond grit is the grit that will remove the damage from the stone, the next grit removes the pervious grit scratches and so on , when you skip a lower grit you will never totally remove your 120 grit scratches using a 400 grit diamond. When you are looking for the end results , the more consistent you hones are the better finish you will achieve. Your true clarity and shine in the stone is totally controlled by your diamond honing. Inconsistent honing will result in less then what you expected in the finish polish. This is due to never totally removing the lower grit scratches.
The recommended process is as follows.
1. Determine what damage you have in the stone, and what grit you need to start with,
2. If starting with a 120 you then must follow the grit ranges up until you are ready to polish.
The progression would be 120, 220, 400, 800 etc.
3. In most cases on you lighter stone you can polish after a 400 hone
4. With the green and black stone you need to hone up to a 800 in some cases 1800 the achieve the great shine.
5. After you have completed you honing process proceed with your polishing process.
Now regarding the travertine vanity tops
First determine the damage and the diamond grit you need to start with, if possible if you can remove the damage with a 220 grit diamond this will eliminate 95% of any pulling out of the fills. Travertine is a soft stone therefore you should be able to start with a 220 hone, then proceed using the following process.
1. Obviously mask and protect the surrounding areas.
2. Start honing with your 220 grit
3. After your damage is removed proceed with the following grit 400, 800 you can polish after 800 , some polish after 400 but I prefer going to 800 and on darker stones I usually go up to 1800.
4. Be sure to properly feather between each grit to achieve the finish you are looking for, if you improperly feather you will have a halo on you edges
5. Polish using the polishing powder that you use.
6. Clean up and your done.
I do prefer to seal vanity tops giving them that extra protection.
Then before you leave the customer home remember to sell the customer the StoneCare Central Care Products.
Cleaners , Soap Film removers, Mildew Removers Etc. go the www.stonecarecentral.com for the entire line of care products.
Once you have made everything shinny and beautiful educate your customer on the proper care and you will have a customer for live and sell care products and earn money
Hope this helped, if you have any other questions, please advise, if you are looking for any additional training check out The Stone and Tile School
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: debbie.shaw@gmail.com [mailto:debbie.shaw@gmail.com] On Behalf Of StonePro Solutions
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 8:20 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] Question
Recently I polished a trav floor with green marble accent pieces. Although the results were pretty good, it was harder to get the polish than I would have expected. I ran 120 /400/800(Rosettes) then MB 12. My polishing problem began when I got the pad loaded with MB 12. Usually I just add h2o and Im fine but this time, it stopped polishing and I had to change out the pad. With a new pad, it polished great. On Tuesday I have to polish 4 trav vanity tops and I am wondering what I might do different to improve my results/save time. Should I run the diamonds higher ?
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