Granite Edges - Advice Needed

[dannywill]

Hi all,

As the title says I'm after some advice.

I am not a tiler, I am a homeowner and have had a tiler fix me granite tiles in my bathroom.

I asked him to finish the extrernal corners by simply butting one tile to the other (no trims)

Which he has done, and I am happy with.

But now I need some way to finish the unpolished edges (These aren't cut edges, they are just unpolished)

I realise the proper way to do the job is polishing the stone with an angle grinder using finer and finer abbresive discs.

This seems like it will be really hard work, and require a fair bit of skill to get a good finish.

The only other suggestion I have had is to rub the edges down with vegetable oil.
I have tried this on a scrap piece and it works - The tile is darkened and almost matched the polished face. BUT surely over time the vegetable oil will become rancid?

Anybody know of a product I can use to blacken the edges that will stand the test of time?

I havn't sealed the tiles yet so will do this after the edges are sorted.


I would really appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance

Dan.

 

[DHTiling]

Hi |Danny..


You can polish the edges up by hand..?

Or if you can still find some.. Aquamix enrich and seal will permanently darken them..


Also, why did your tiler not polish them..?

 

[dannywill]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply.

I want to avoid polishing the tiles if poss, I don't want to make a mess of it.
All of the edges are uncut, straight from the factory so darkening will be fine.

Enrich and seal sounds like the stuff then - I take it from your comment it's no longer made?

The tiler said from the beginning he would be leaving them unfinished. I don't think he had done this sort of job before.