Ron,

It sound like you are missing color only and you have achieved the clarity
in the stone. I am assuming that these counter tops have been in a natural
polish before?
If they have then you process in the honing stages are correct. If the
terrazzo has never been I a natural polish before then you need to start
with a lower grit. This hold true with floors and counter tops etc. When
terrazzo installer make these tops and when they install the floors they
usually leave them in an 80 grit or 120 stone/ brick.
Therefore to achieve the finish you need to drop down to at least a 50 grit
resin diamond. In some cases if the company did not achieve a good grind on
the terrazzo in initial process you could have some resins left behind.

Now that we have ruled out all these possibilities let's talk about the
polishing process.

1. First remove all the waxes, and all the other items you have used to add
color.
2. using you 5X powder repolish the tops and get you shine and then go after
your color.

The next process may partners may not like my recommendation, but seeing the
terrazzo approves this a an accepted way of polish I will give you the next
step.

3. take a good crystallizer polish, with a #1 or #0 steel wool pad and your
hands machine and crystallize the top. You may need to repeat this process
more than 1 time this process will bring back the color and add additional
shine to the terrazzo.

This should solve your problem. This is one time a crystallizer will work
and get you off the job.

Be sure to clean up ALL steel wool fragments.

Please No negative comments on crystallization, I've heard them all over the
past 20 years. In this case it should work.

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: rmoore@americanstonecare.com [mailto:rmoore@americanstonecare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:26 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] epoxy/resin terrazzo

Pros,

We are looking for a solution for counters we are working on in the World
Bank. The bathroom counters are an epoxy-resin type of terrazzo(Black). We
have re-surfaced a couple tops starting at either 100-220 resin to remove
water deposits and light scratches. We have brought them up to 800-1800
resins and tried three different things to polish. First, the old 5x-
polished up nice but is way to light. Second, Minwax polishing paste.
Results so so, again way to light. Third, Beeswax, best result yet but
client wants darker finish. Suggestions would be appreciated. Hope
everyone is doing well.

Ron Moore
American Stone Care, Inc.
16458 Lone Oak Place
Hamilton, VA. 20158
877-338-5559 office
301-602-2307 mobile
www.americanstonecare.com

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