Many thanks. stu, what would you consider a good alkaline cleaner? I typically use NCL Hurricane, which is neutral (I think) and not alkaline. I have used alkaline cleaners that have etched travertine - too high on the phone scale I guess.________________________________________From the desk ofBaird StandishManaging PartnerFacility Specialists, LLC15 West Highland Ave. Suite EPhiladelphia, PA 19118Phone: 215-732-7505Fax: 215-546-9160You can search it onlinewe buy it from a local company who sells detergents to commercial laundries.If you buy it in 80 lb barrels it is way cheaper than a branded product and you add other detergents.I think we do like 4-5 scoops of sodium percarbonate to a scoop of detergent.But you can always just use a good high alkaline cleaner.On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Fred Hueston <fhueston@gmail.com> wrote:sodium percarbonate is oxyclean--On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:43 AM, stuart rosen <mail@stoneshine.com> wrote:Nice-That is a great job-client must have been thrilled.That is an old travertine floor which is way more difficult to clean than a more modern travertine floor in a residence.The floor Chris did is basically unfilled.Clients generally want to keep that look but will always ask to fill the bigger voids leaving alone the smaller ones.The more modern floors(filled travertine) are generally easier to clean-once they have been extracted and any open voids filled you can continue honing doe the desired level.Yes Roger if you use a lot of tide with bleach- the house will smell like the washing machine overflowed.It is a great cleaner though-when I use to clean those trucks my hands were like surgically clean-however they stayed red for days.In place of those products and even oxi-clean products we make our own mix of sodium percarbonate and commercial laundry detergent. Sodium percarbonate is oxygen bleach which is the main ingredient in most of those oxy-type cleaners.It is easy to work with,effective and has no bleach odors.You can google it up-we have even used it to poultice large areas on floors.On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Chris <csantospago@gmail.com> wrote:Baird, yes I cleaned and extracted twice. Then I made the 1st cut with vortex red dot and they extracted the slurry.Next day I did grout repair.3rd day I used 220 diamonds to clean up the excess grout and finished with #1 vortex
Sent from my iPhoneMaybe stupid question, but do you clean (get truck mount guy in etc. ) before or after any honing and/or polishing?On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Chris <csantospago@gmail.com> wrote:
<image1.png><image1.png>Just did an 800 sq ft travertine floor that was installed in 1920 and was really dirty. I used Stu's technique and hired a truck mount extractor company to work with me for half a day for $300. Floor came very nice. Some of the big holes remained a little dark but I ended up filling them in when I did the grout repair. Customer was very happy.
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