Roger,
 Yes, use the same approach, however when it comes to sealing does the
customer want the color enhanced or do they only want to honed look with no
color enhancing?

When it comes to sealing the stone have you tried using the Enhancer or both
of the stones? If you are only going to enhance the black then you could do
each tile or protect the tile you don't want to enhance, I think I would do
each tile rather than taping off the tiles I don't want to enhance.

John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
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Cell 407-615-0134
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Konarski [mailto:qm144@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 12:42 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Granite Floor !!!!

John,
Thanks for the info. Some more info on the job. The floor is checkerboard
white thassos and black absolute. Yes they only want a honed finish. So I
assume your recommendation for handling the job is the same strategy.

Normally when it comes to honed granite, you want to use a color enhancer as
a sealer. To me that present a problem because you only want to enhance the
granite. Thus I would envision taping off the white thassos and color
enhancing the granite. Then removing the tape and sealing the entire floor.
Any suggestions  or feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,
RK

--- On Fri, 6/18/10, John Freitag <jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com>
wrote:

> From: John Freitag <jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com>
> Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Granite Floor !!!!
> To: "Restoration and Maintenance" <sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
> Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 8:15 AM
> Roger,
>
> The mastercraft machine will work fine, you may add some
> weight to the first
> grind if you're going to flatten the floor. Does the
> customer want the floor
> flat or just honed? There is a difference. If they only
> want the floor to be
> at a honed finish then you do not need to flatten it. Hone
> the floor with a
> 400 grit granite diamond, I use the 3 inch Ceramic pads
> from StoneCare
> Central. They are the DI-CP pads call Margie and she know
> the pads.
>
> Then I would mount the diamonds on a hog hair pad, you can
> buy a industrial
> Velcro from StoneCare Central it comes 4 inches wide and 36
> inch long. Cut
> this into 3 to 4 inch squares and glue them onto anew hog
> hair pad. I like
> placing 5 diamonds to a 17 inch pad. When attaching the
> Velcro to the pad
> use some super glue, the Velcro has a self adhesive on it
> the glue just make
> it stick better. Let the pad set over night with some
> weight on it
>
> Your ready to grind if the final result is to achieve a
> honed finish I would
> try starting with a 400 grit granite diamond, NO your
> marble diamonds will
> not work! I would not use any weight on the machine for
> this process. Once
> the honing is complete if you have any picture framing use
> a honing powder.
> This will remove the picture framing and leave the floor at
> a nice honed
> finish. To remove the picture framing you may need to use a
> 250 honing
> powder then follow up with a 400 powder. Then seal the
> floor
>
> If you have any other questions, please let me know
>
>
>
> John E. Freitag
> President/Director
> The Stone and Tile School
> Office 407-567-7652
> Cell 407-615-0134
> jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
>
>
>
> www.thestoneandtileschool.com
>
>    
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Konarski [mailto:qm144@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:10 PM
> To: Restoration and Maintenance
> Subject: [sccpartners] Granite Floor !!!!
>
> I got a call today on new granite floor insulation; I
> believe they said it
> was polished black absolute. They want a hone finished on
> the floor. The
> positives are that the floor trim has not been installed.
> While I can top
> polish granite with no problem, I have never ground flat a
> granite floor. I
> was told it is about 300 sq. ft. I have Mastercraft (that
> needs to be
> replaced). I also have a Clarke MP1800, would one of these
> machines do the
> job and what type of grinding disc and pads would you
> possible recommend?
> Thanks,
> Roger
>
>
>
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