by Mark on September 15, 2009
A real dilemma with the limestone floor. What happened was the client was left short of 11 900 x 900 tiles laid on the floor. All beautiful polished limestone tiles except for the 11 tiles short. (how does that happen)! I suggested we lay honed (unpolished) tiles then once laid we can polish them to match the rest.
Using a polyvac machine with a white pad place the marble polish powder on the floor then add a small amount of water. Move the polyvac machine back and forward (about 5minues) until the honed tiles are polished to match the already polished tiles. Use S4S marble cleaner to neutralize, then wet vac dry. A good marble cleaning product like S4S works a treat to clean and neutralize prior to sealing the limestone.
A grout cleaning tool will clean the grout as well.
When dry seal with a good quality marble sealer and buff excess.
by Mark on September 11, 2009
We left early for the 1 hour drive up to the hinterlands to continue work on a previous job. Today we will finish the 3 x fireplaces and a clean and seal to the limestone floors in the entry.
With limestone we scrubbed the fireplace walls by hand using S4S marble cleaner and then dried by hand. The floors were scrubbed with an orange pad on the poly vac machine, S4S marble cleaner was used mixed at 10 to 1 with water. We then wet vac dried the floors. After about 1 hour when all prepared areas were totally dried we sealed them with 2 x coats of marble sealer. The excess was buffed off the floors.
Routine maintenance of S4S marble cleaner will keep them looking great. We still have about 120m2 of wall to clean and seal and another 3 x bathrooms. The bathrooms are crema morfil marble. That’s about 3 weeks away until we get back there.
Had a call from a guy yesterday with a problem. It appears the tiler sealed the travertine floors without removing all the excess grout. I will check this out next week, stay tuned.
by Mark on September 3, 2009
It seems lately that I’m getting all the fix up jobs that others have messed up or cant do!
The builders said that two other guys had tried to remove marks in new already sealed external limestone tiles. It was a bit tricky but not impossible to bring it back.
Three different areas with dirt ground into [...]
by Mark on August 27, 2009
Been really busy quoting and running around lately. The immediate future is certainly looking on the up.
I am working on a large external limestone cleaning and sealing job. As you can see by the photo I suspect the limestone was never sealed. The mould and bacteria has really taken over. The owner of the house [...]
by Kirstin on August 19, 2009
Arrived at Unit 26 at 7.00am porcelain/Limestone/Sandstone tiles with transportation wax glued firmly to them. We see a bit of this. You need to use a chemical that will dilute the wax then machine scrubber clean at the same time, and wet vac up waste before it dries. We then use our marble cleaning product [...]
by Kirstin on August 18, 2009
Started once again on time at 7.00am (I’m never late). Finished removing all the wax off the tiles, S4S cleaned and dried about 50ml total was used for lounge, Dining room, bathroom floors and walls.
Now we are back at the Limestone cleaning and sealing job we “ Gold marble cleaned” yesterday. S4S scrubbed the travertine [...]
Finished last 20m2 this morning. Couldn’t do it in one day as we had to move the furniture onto completed area to finish the last small area. While at smoko, quoted a concrete grind. I did a bit of this years ago. It is supposed to rain tomorrow so at least it will fill the [...]
Good day today. Clean and seal 60m2 Limestone internal and external around pool area. They had a bit of mould growth here and there so we pre-cleaned with a mix 1st liquid chlorine to 1ltr cold water.
I machined scrubbed with S4S on all the limestone tiles. This will thoroughly clean and neutralize as you scrub. [...]
What a day. Matt and I did half a day preparing outside limestone so that its ready to seal tomorrow. Then got ready too go to Louis Vuitton to do our regular maintenance work on their store.
We have to clean and anti-graffiti the outside of the store. This means an S4S wash with warm – [...]
I did 2 x ensuite plus bathroom plus powder room to clean and seal. All Limestone highly polished. Using the correct marble cleaning products is essential. S4S cleans great, it neutralizes the stone and prepares it for sealing. Then I make sure it is dried thoroughly with clean white towels.
When all the stone is completely [...]
