Giallo Ornamental - seal twice?

hi maurizio i just had giallo ornamental installed contractor sealed with bulletproof shall i seal again in a day or 2.i cannot see any sign of resining done. thanks so much

 

Dear Mark:

 

“ i cannot see any sign of resining done. ”

 

And neither can I. Nobody can see any resining done to a slab (unless in the cas e of a few samples of so-called “exotic granite” – whatever that means and whatever the heck those stone are). To realize if a slab had been resined you have to able to see the slab before they started cutting it: in that way you will see dried-on runs of resin in the rough edges of the slab. Other than that…

As matter of fact, Giallo Ornamental is a most likely candidate to resining, and, if that's the cas e with your countertop, they applied that impregnator for absolutely nothing.

At any rate, to find out if your stone can be (needs to) be sealed, do this:

Spill some water in a couple of spots of your stone, let it dwell for 5 minutes or so, wipe it dry and observe if the areas under which the water has been sitting have become (temporarily) any darker than the rest. If so, then you will apply a good-quality impregnating sealer. If not, you won't.

Now it's my turn to ask you a question.

I can see that you're so concerned about the sealing of your stone; doesn't it occur to you that what you will be using on it for routine care is – as it should be intuitive – vastly more important than the sealing? I haven't heard a word from you on this: only sealing, sealing and sealing. What is this, an epidemic of nonsense??... J

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