> 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
>
>
> John,

Thanks. I was thinking that might be the case. I'm not against the
crystalizer on these man made tops at all.  We want to be able to restore
and leave with a dark shine. I will try the crystalizer next time we are
there. Thanks for the good advice.

Ron
>
>
>
> -----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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