Limestone detiorating ?

[Ttt1601]

not shiny no, slightly darker it is a tumbled stone, but has had some sort of polish or hone on it as 98% of the surface each is smooth like honed and filled it just the edge and a couple of pit/ veins that have any kind of texture to them, think i will try and strip, buff them reseal, but will test first on a stone and talk to the customer, cheers bob will report back when ive had a play round with spare stone

 

[Blunt Tool]

Do you have a set of diamond pads? You could buff them down to clean again, then wheat colour stone fill pock marks and cracks, buff down again when dry then diamond polish back again then reseal! That's what I would do

 

[Ttt1601]

yea was thinking something similar, but want to try other options first as the supplier isnt going to pay towards anything, and the customer really doesnt want to cover cost i can tell, and i dont mind doing a bit of work free ( as its a small village full of money and it only makes me look good lol) to see if things work before it comes to that level of work and i want to be paid for it, but will have to speak to the customer again. what diamond pads to you use @callatiler ?

 

[Blunt Tool]

yea was thinking something similar, but want to try other options first as the supplier isnt going to pay towards anything, and the customer really doesnt want to cover cost i can tell, and i dont mind doing a bit of work free ( as its a small village full of money and it only makes me look good lol) to see if things work before it comes to that level of work and i want to be paid for it, but will have to speak to the customer again. what diamond pads to you use @callatiler ?

Speak to @ATSDiamondTools, if you are doing a lot of stone installations you would be best to get full wet set either hand or machine, 50 grit upwards to 10000 polish

 

[Ttt1601]

ive got hand pads just not machine pads, i dont usually use ats, but will give them a go if it comes to buffing these back fully, sod that by hand lol cheeers mate

 

[Lithofin BOB]

Test a simple ligh cleaner first that the client would use if they had to deep clean their floor, could this be a simple maintenance issue, you do not supply self cleaning floors, if you start padding this floor you will have to match the machine finish, if you even strip it you are completing works that your client may think there was an issue with your install,

 

[Concrete guy]

On limestone or other sedimentary/metamorphic stone (marble, travertine) then silicon carbide discs are probably more appropriate for cleaning and re honing or re polishing.

However if the surface is textured and you want to retain the texture then you need silicon carbide brushes otherwise discs will simply remove the texture and smooth out the tiles worked, creating another problem.

Don't do localised areas, think of it like car bodywork where repairs have to be blended into other panels. Refinish an area of tiles and try to blend into the surrounding ones if you're not doing the whole floor.

Always try a chemical solution to the problem first, mechanical cleaning/polishing is the next step if chemicals don't work.

 

[Ttt1601]

im going to pick up a left over stone from the customer this weekend, dirty it up a bit and have a play round, customer is not trying to hold this as my fault, i he has made that very clear just as i have made it very clear i am taking no responabilty for this issue, just trying to offer a bit of free after care as part of the service, anything more than a quick clean will be being charged for. cheers again gents will see how the cleaning goes and see

 

[Spud]

I was always under the impression that flash was acidic and shouldn't be used on natural stone , I guess it is what it is now but hopefully you can rectify it for them