Dear Courtney:
I personally have mixed feeling about the resining of stone slabs. All in all it would not represent a “bad doctoring”. In fact, if applied to the right stone and for the right purpose, it has green light with me, and big time, too. But if it is applied to a low-grade slab to “upgrade” it, then I would have a problem. But the real problem is that nobody can tell if that was the
Now, what is resining and what is its purpose?
It much depends on the stone to be treated.
If the resining is done to certain so called “exotic granites” (whatever the heck of a stone they might be and whatever that means) we're talking about structural resining. The resin (epoxy all the time) is applied at the very beginning of the processing of the slab, because it has the task of actually keeping the slab together, or else its natural fragmentation would make it too fragile and virtually impossible to handle. That is good resining, because
it allow
s consumer to enjoy strikingly beautiful stones that wouldn't be available otherwise.
We then have resining
motivated by the excessive natural pitting or fissures or high-absorbency of the different stones to be treated. In this
None of the resin is on the surface of the stone, if not the little specs that fill the fissures and pits and that are flush with the solid part of the stone.
Usually a resined slab is permanently sealed, for epoxy is indeed an amazing
impregnator and will not need any additional sealing. (Actually it would be impossible to seal.)
As for keeping you stone looking great, I believe that all you need is a good-quality stone spray cleaner like MB-5, teamed with a nice stone polish like MB-13 to be used sparingly and once a week or so. It will help a great deal to keep finger marks at bay.
May I ask you now to please read and e-sign our Statement of Purpose at:
http://www.marblecleaning.org/purpose.htm?
Ciao and good luck,
Maurizio Bertoli
Article ID: 1191
Created On: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Last Updated On: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Authored by: Maurizio Bertoli [mail@mbstone.com]
Online URL: https://marblecleaning.org/knowledgebase/article.php?id=1191