Adam,
Here's an inexpensive idea. Grind up to 400 grit then apply a liquid hardener like Prime Grind. Once the floor has been densified grind with your diamonds up to 1800. Purchase a blue dot (3000 grit) a yellow dot (8000) spinergy pad from a janitorial supply company like Cleaners Closet. I think the pads run about $65 per. They last for a few thousand square feet and the price is affordable. If you can, apply weight to your floor machine. Use little water, not alot. These pads are effective. We used this process on a combination floor an installer did a horrible job on. Quarter inch lippage etc......very bad. The floor was in the National Archives in Washington, DC.
This process worked well for us. Best of luck.
Ron Moore
American Stone Care, Inc.
No i have not used chetas. I was waiting for user's option before i spend a grand.
On Oct 15, 2014 8:28 AM, "cpstaples" <cpstaples@msn.com> wrote:did you try the cheetah pads or pucks on this floor because they seem to be able to polish anything with the right machine and weight.
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From: Dayron
Date:10/15/2014 9:19 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: Limestone from hell
This limestone is getting pretty popular down love to see your results
Sent from my iPhoneGuys and gals,
last week i did a sample polishing for one of our clients on their limestone floor and to my disbelief i couldn't get it to shine. I went up to 1800 grit and still no gloss. Little better but no gloss as it in their atrium. The lobby where I was working had some glossy and some honed tiles. The atrium, which is connected to the lobby has only glossy tiles. Was told that it was like that from the beginning and to the designer request. I don't think so but now the client wants entire floor glossy. When we evaluated that floor prior to bidding we didn't expect this kind of difficulty getting it to the glossy finish. I tried 5x, mb22 and mb20 and no big difference between them. Crystalizer is next to try. Some veining are glossy like mirror but not the rest of it. Am i doing something wrong? Did anyone experienced something like that? What else can do?
Adam Bartos
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