Kris,

I highly recommend you strip the floor, by grinding off the surface you
never remove the waxes totally from the pore of the terrazzo and you would
need to hand grind the edges to remove the waxes. For the sake of time I
would recommend to just strip the floor hone it and then polish it. If this
terrazzo has never been in a natural polish before in order to get the
finish you want you will probably need to start at a 50 resin and work your
way up. Remember waxes although are topical they do penetrate into the pores
of the terrazzo or stone and will never be totally remove unless stripped.
This could haunt you when it comes to polishing if all the waxes are not
removed.

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: Kris Dougherty [mailto:kris@marblefloorsandmore.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 5:03 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Terrazzo

I am going to natural polish about 5000 sqft of waxed terrazzo. Do I
need to strip off the old finish with wax stripper or can I use a
diamond to remove the finish.
All comments are welcome.
Kris

On 12/16/2010 12:25 PM, John Freitag wrote:
> Tony,
>
> I somewhat confused, perhaps I missed and email. This terrazzo floor was
> ground at a 30 grit ???
> What are they trying to remove are there stains in the terrazzo that need
to
> be removed??
> Do you have any pictures you can send??
>
> If the terrazzo has no stains in it and the floors have been stripped then
> hone the floor from a 30 up to a hone that can be polished. If there are
> stains in the floor I need additional information, are these iron, stains
,
> stains from glues stains for something else. Once we know this information
I
> can give you more advise.
>
>
> 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: Excel Master Floor Care [mailto:excelmasterfloorcare@cox.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:34 PM
> To: Restoration and Maintenance
> Subject: [sccpartners] Terrazzo
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> A company I have done work with is the one working on the Terrazzo floor.
> They asked for my advice.  They have stripped the floor and I had
suggested
> the poultice but I wanted to make sure that I had given them the correct
> advice.  Not sure why they used 30 grit.  Thanks for your help.
>
> Tony
> Sent from my iPad

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