Dealing With Damaged Marble Floors

Many builders and architects have used marble floorings to make their buildings more artistic and affluent looking. Even households use this type of flooring to give their home that elegant and classy feel. But having flooring like this would need you to take extra care for it.

Why The Extra?

You may ask why you need to give extra care to this type of flooring; the reason is that they are extra prone to aesthetic damage than other types of floors. It is relatively soft compared to others and it can scratch easily. It is also sensitive to chemicals that contain acid.

You should avoid spilling vinegar on it because a dull spot will appear on your floor.

Also, you must prohibit the following materials from having contact to your floor:
tomatoes and tomato sauce, lemon, lime, coffee, bleach, vomit, urine, tile cleaners, toilet cleaners, and any other detergents with lemon; because all of these are acidic.

They can easily stain and the sad thing is, a lot of household products can cause it to stain, even orange juice, nail polish remover, shampoo, and sometimes plain water too. That's why it is important for your flooring to be dry at all times.

The Damage Is Done

If your floor has already been subjected to too much abrasions, scratches, stains, and damage, and if you feel that it's already time for you to do some repairs or replacements, don’t fret. There can still be a solution to your problem.

Four Step Restoration

You can hire stone professionals who can help you out with restoring your marble floors. If the damage is not that severe, they can still remedy your damaged floor in just four general steps.

First, they level out the flooring. What they do here is, they remove the lippage and loose fragments, and then they flatten out the floors. This step can immediately remove the deepest stains and scratches on your flooring.

Next step is honing, where they smoothen it by the use of industrial diamonds that causes it to shine and have a more uniform look. There are times that the damage is not that severe, and this step would do the trick to restoration.

If honing is not enough, polishing would be the next step. By the use of small graded industrial diamonds, your floor will have a semi-finished luster.

Lastly, they will crystallize it. This would give-off a mirror-like shine finish and this is when you get to see the micro-film like surface of the marble.

With those four steps that stone professionals use, you can have the original beauty of your marble floorings back instantly! Sadly, there are cases in which it is too late to make restorations. In times like this, you would have to consider making replacements.

It is advised that you get professional help to do the treatments to your floor, since handling restorations and replacements like this is quite tricky. You wouldn't want to risk making mistakes because the material you’ll be using is quite expensive.


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