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[onion]

I was being sarcastic the reason floors are not ground down in the uk is because there is little knowledge about stone fitting because anyone with a wet cuter from b&q can call them selves a stone fitter. The reason for stone grinding to be done is simple stone scratches and stains are unavoidable. How can you remove these scratches without it being noticed on a British floor impossible. With a ground floor it takes 8 steps to remove lips and bring back to a gloss leaving the floor perfectly flat giving the floor a monolithic appearance. Now to remove scratches and stains on a floor like this only takes 2-3 steps and with the correct machinery a 50m floor would only take 2 hours leaving the floor brand new

 

[Mike Mike]

I was being sarcastic the reason floors are not ground down in the uk is because there is little knowledge about stone fitting because anyone with a wet cuter from b&q can call them selves a stone fitter. The reason for stone grinding to be done is simple stone scratches and stains are unavoidable. How can you remove these scratches without it being noticed on a British floor impossible. With a ground floor it takes 8 steps to remove lips and bring back to a gloss leaving the floor perfectly flat giving the floor a monolithic appearance. Now to remove scratches and stains on a floor like this only takes 2-3 steps and with the correct machinery a 50m floor would only take 2 hours leaving the floor brand new

I think the root cause of this problem is a question of supply and demand. As Adam Smith wrote 300 years ago, "supply creates it's own demand". Tile shops importing cheap Indian and Chinese stone and selling it from £15/m2 creates a demand. A demand among customers who have no business buying natural stone tiles. By that I mean they (the customers) are too cheap to be in this market. In the (good) old days, the only customers of stone were affluent enough to be able to pay for quality and arrogant enough to demand it. Now, it feels to me, every Tom, Dick and Harry, wants a magazine look for their 3m2 bathroom, with an all in price of under £250.

You sell stone for peanuts, you attract apes, who then demand that monkeys come and install it for bananas... :lol:

 

[Gazzer]

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[onion]

Fantastic reply

 

[Olz]

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[radim]

welcome!