Marble Floor Restoration
Marble floor restoration process of restoring marble floor to its original appearance, it may involve following: scratches, stains removal, grinding, polishing, buffing, tile replacement, regrouting and as final sealing.
Stones, such as marble, travertine, and limestone will be wearing-out with use. Foot traffic, cleaning will cause the stone scratching and losing luster. This process can be speeded with inappropriate care or overmuch harsh stone cleaning.
The one enemy of a marble floor are sand particles which are carried from street by feet. For extending operation of a marble floor it is necessary to use a door mat for feet cleanup, regularly to wash a floor with the special cleaners which are not contains acid, alkaline or abrasives.
Marble floor loses the shine, mostly on places where people often walk, there are micro scratches.
Here it is possible to return original shine and beauty of marble by restoring it.
The most popular methods of floor restoration are:
For slightly damaged marble are used the marble polishing by fine diamond abrasives (Diamond pads) and then buffing or crystallizing, while crystallization the light polishing procedure creates marble dust, which chemically oxidate and by high friction heat, crystallizing into oxidation film, which is as one body with marble, but this film has gloss finish, higher hardness and water resistance.
For more worn or damaged floors, steps, tables and other surfaces
often used deeper polishing, known as grinding.
