On option one, what grit would you stop @ ?

--- On Tue, 5/12/09, anthony@777-7797.com <anthony@777-7797.com> wrote:

From: anthony@777-7797.com <anthony@777-7797.com>
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Fw: Lobby Restoration
To: "Restoration and Maintenance" <sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 10:27 PM

1-      Budget price, you will grind and polish everything to a marble shine finish, this means the White Thasos will return to a beautiful shine while the border will be grinded, lippage free but they may lose some darkness and shine. 

The granite will not return to its original color but it will have an acceptable consistent color and future maintenance will be a breeze.

2-      After #1 offer to enhance the border with a sealer for an extra charge, this will bring out most of its dark color, but gain less shine than full polish

3-      Last option do a complete grind and polish like # 1 and then run all your diamonds and flexing on the borders to the maximum diamonds 8500, but your problem will still be the polishing.  To polish the Black granite you need a granite powder that normally contains some black dies which would ruin the white adjacent marble. So seal the white marble after all diamonds and marble polishing is done,  finish the black with the proper Nero absolute powders , then you repolish the marble floor (especially close the black border) with marble powder. This should clean up your black residue..  Not impossible but you need a lot of time , a lot of being careful and a lot of patience.

Inform the customer, do a test so he can see and let him decide!