scratched cloudy marble?

[tileunique]

Hi everyone, i have a scratched black marble floor to make good and hopefully shiney as a new pin, can anyone impart some wisdom as to how i can make this happen please?:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Dontiler]

hi
you can hire marble polishing machine, cost about 50£ for one day, you will need different grades polishing pads to remove scratches, also you should buy some polishing powder, and soapy water
gl

 

[tileunique]

thanks, ill look into it, could i use a hand held polisher, its like a slow speed angle grinder, do you know what i mean?

 

[Dontiler]

if the area is small you can do, but you will not get as good finish as with polishing machine, if you choose to use variable speed grinder then you will also need another 180mm grinder with wool pad for paste or crystallizer application, sometimes if the scratch is not deep you can just polish it off with wool pad and marble paste
gl

 

[Topshop]

How big of an area is the floor?

Black marbles usually need to be taken up pretty high in the diamonds (1500 to 3000) to get the polishing powders to pop the shine. How low in the diamonds depends on how deep the scratches are. You will need a 175 rpm machine and proper diamonds to do the job right. Another thing that comes into play is if there is any lippage between tiles on the floor. If you try to polish without removing bad lippage you could get picture framing and that would be bad.

Basicly leave a job like this to a pro restoration guy. Leave the crystalizers at home if you(or your customer) want to be happy in the long run and have the stone look natural and not like plastic.