Rojo Alicante milky looking

I looked at a marble top for a previous customer who bought a new house. The vanity & tub deck are rojo alicante. The backsplashes, & areas further away from the sink and tub look great. The closer you get to the sink & tub , the duller, and milkier it looks. I think it is a cleaning and marble polishing issue. Wanted your opinion, and product suggestion. Thanks, our company is learning a lot from this site, and our customers are reaping the benefits.

 

Dear Dan:

Thank you for your nice words.

 

“ The closer you get to the sink & tub , the duller, and milkier it looks. I think it is a cleaning and marble polishing issue. ”

 

The wrong cleaning product may have contributed to the problem, but the polishing is not part of it. In fact, the polishing is the solution. And stone is polished by abrasion and friction, like gemstone, not by slapping some products (sealer or whatnot) onto it.

Unfortunately polishing stone is a very difficult craft due to the fact that no two stones polish the same way.

I teach 3-day classes at international level on stone restoration and I can assure you that at the end of the course we only scratched the surface.

In conclusion, nothing in a bottle will enable you to have your stone brought back to its pristine conditions.

Your only option is to hire a bona fide stone restoration contractor who will lightly grind (hone) and then re-polish your stone.

Now, you'd better watch out! I consider stone refinishing as the very pinnacle of all the activities related to stone from a professional point of view. Unfortunately, there are a lot of quacks on the loose out there! You get one of those, and you may even have to kiss your stone bye-bye!

How could you tell a champ from a chomp? Could you trust the recommendation of your local stone distributor, or contractor, or your interior decorator? Hardly!

We have available a very comprehensive article on how to select a bona fide stone restoration contractor, which will give you all the intelligence you need to make a competent choice. It does carry a small price tag, and you can order it by logging on the Educational Literature section 0f our website at:   http://www.mbstone.com/literature/literature.htm. It's available in pay-per-download format and I consider it a cheap “insurance premium” to pay when there are thousands of $ involved! Not to mention the little and much needed support you'd be giving to the cause – YOUR cause, since every single penny of the cost of the article will be used to support it.

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Thank you.

Ciao and good luck,

Mauri zio Bertoli

 

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