Dear Tang:
I don't know what product you used, but the directions the way you reported to me sound rather… unusual. Typically, you must remove the residue of the product from the surface of the stone before it has a chance to dry, not after it dried!
That said, the other part of bad news is that it is virtually impossible to seal polished marble. In fact an impregnating sealer must be absorbed by the stone to work and polished marble seldom absorbs anything. Therefore, the residue that you have now sitting on your stone is most likely the 100% of what you applied to it!
How to get rid of it?
Certainly not by using a cleaner!! (But hey, at the store they made another sale!!... :-))
Before you resort to “its majesty” Methylene Chloride, try to sprinkle some of the original sealer on a couple of tiles and then, using a clean white rag, immediately rub, rub, rub, rub until the new and the old sealer are gone. If that won't work, it's Methylene Chloride time!... And if it gets to that, let me know when you do the job that I'm going to move out of the country for a couple of weeks!! (Nasty stuff!!... You can find it at any hardware or paint store.)
After all the useless sealer that had no business being there is gone, you'd better learn how to take care of your stone; and applying a sealer to it is certainly not part of it! Considering how “knowledgeable” they were by telling you to apply an impregnating sealer to polished marble, I highly doubt that you're ever going to receive any intelligence on this subject by the store's staff!!
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Ciao and good luck,
Mauri
Article ID: 153
Created On: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 at 8:20 AM
Last Updated On: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Authored by: Maurizio Bertoli [mail@mbstone.com]
Online URL: https://marblecleaning.org/knowledgebase/article.php?id=153