RE: [sccpartners] Polishing marble Hector Castillo 24 Jan 2013 10:52 EST

Looks like a floor someone called about lipage removal.

Did you clean the floor between grits?

Hector Castillo

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Young [mailto:santafefc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:05 AM
To: Stone and Tile PROS Technical Support
Subject: [sccpartners] Polishing marble

Good morning.  We are working on a marble floor in a bathroom that had some
fairly deep scratches in it.  We concentrated on the deeper scratches with
an angle grinder and were able to get them out.  On the rest of the floor we
used 180 honing powders up through 3000 diamond Norton pads and we polished
with MB16 in some areas and 5x in other areas (to see if there was any
difference in the polish - there wasn't much difference).

We will probably need to grind the whole floor down and go deeper, but even
when we have done this on other floors in the past, we are not able to get a
really nice polish on it - certainly not like the factory finish.  Are we
overlooking something?  What might we try to get a better polish?  Does it
matter what sort of marble we are dealing with? A picture of the floor we
are currently working on is attached.