by Mark on December 15, 2009
Awhile ago quoted a job, ensuite walls and floors, bathroom floor and toilet floor. This was a reversal from the normal work. The difference being that the floors were highly polished and the architect wanted honed (Flat unpolished) surface for the floors.
Firstly hand sanded the floors with a 120 grit wet and dry sanding disc. This removed the scratches and flattened the marble floor tiles. Then 320 grit sanded the marble floors. Looking good but not finished, we then scrubbed the floors with a good quality marble cleaner. We used S4S marble cleaning product. This is a top quality stone cleaner that cleans and neutralises the marble. After wet vac drying the waste from marble it is ready to seal once a drying period has elapsed (about 1 to 1.5 hrs)
Applied two coats of a good quality sealant. looked great and the client was very happy. Left them with a maintenance schedule and some S4S marble cleaner.
by Mark on December 13, 2009
Marble cleaner and marble cleaning products are many and varied. Marble cleaning tools are many but a few can be used all the time. A doodle bug and grout cleaning tool to me are necessities but only to be used when necessary, probably every 3 to 6 months. We use them every day as part of our cleaning system prior to sealing to ensure the tiles are 100% clean.
To ensure you are using the correct marble cleaning product check that your marble cleaner is ph neutral. This is an absolute must, let me give you an example. A very large 5 star hotel chain bought me in to repolish almost all of the marble floors. On checking the chemicals they were using I discovered there so-called ph neutral cleaner for the marble tiles actually contained 1% citrus. This might not have sounded much but after using it for a year or so you could of imagine how the marble tiles had lost all their shine. I re did about 30 units that were in the rental pool. After a repolish they came back to almost new look.S4S marble cleaning product is ph neutral and has many other great benefits for using it.It took a while to develop but the results are fantastic.We have had some great testimonials come back lately so these will be posted very soon.
Use S4S as your marble cleaner and I’m positive you’ll stick with it. Not only for mopping floors , washing walls etc, but for a spray and wipe on all your stone benches also.(don’t use too much, a little goes a long way.
by Mark on December 12, 2009
More of the same, but it seems every time I always seem to find something different to add. As usual, mix up the marble cleaner. We always use S4S marble cleaning product. We know it works The feedback is fantastic. Always use the doodle bug to scrub the walls with the S4S applied. There [...]
by Mark on November 12, 2009
Back from Brisbane and finished for the day. Numerous light and heavy scratches on the marble ensuite floor, bathroom floor and the toilet floor.
Had to sand out the scratches in the marble tiles on the floor, then repolish the entire floor.WE use S4S marble cleaning product to neutralise and clean the marble floors. This is [...]
by Mark on November 11, 2009
Work goes in runs.Cleaned two more marble bathrooms today.Once again with the right chemicals and machinery this is a very easy job.This is where S4Smarble cleaning product does a great job. It simply makes it so easy. Stone cleaning products , with marble any way have to be ph neutral. The reason is that marble [...]
by Mark on November 9, 2009
Two marble bathrooms and a laundry to clean and seal today. Very easy when you have the right equipment and chemicals. Here’s how its done. Mix S4S marble cleaner at 1 part S4S to 10 parts water. Spread the solution onto the floor and scrub with the poly vac machine with a tan coloured pad.To [...]
by Mark on October 26, 2009
The tide has really turned lately and we are very busy with advanced bookings for the next 5 weeks.
Just a short note on S4S marble cleaning products. A few people have noted that in using S4S marble cleaning product as a spray and wipe for granite bench tops, marble bench tops or even bathroom [...]
by Kirstin on September 2, 2009
A long trip to work today. About almost 2hrs. The client who has the fire places we recently sealed needs toilets etc to be installed in the powder room and ensuite. Excellent quality ‘Crema marfil’ tiles to floors and walls and two walls had small mosaics.
Doodle bug cleaned walls and machine cleaned floor with S4S, [...]
A brand new “Crema Marfil” marble bathroom stuffed. Someone turned up to anti-slip the floors and decided that an acid wash was the way to go. Wrong!
What the client wanted was this. The area in the actual shower, matt finished and good anti-slip and the dry area of the shower bathroom repolished to match the [...]
I got a call from Susan the other day just asking about cleaning her marble bathroom walls and floor tiles. She said that they just didn’t look as good as they should. It had been about 4 years since they had been installed and sealed. On testing the floors they were in need of a [...]
