enhancing travertine

I was reading about your MB-6 enhancer and could not find the information about when the stone should be enhanced. Could you please tell me: 1) How long I have to wait to enhance the stone after setting it? 2) can the stone be enhanced before grouting? 3) If the stone can be enhanced before grouting, do I use a different product on the grout to seal it or the same enhancer? 4) If the stone cannot be enhanced before grouting, how long after grouting do I wait before putting the enhancer on. Thanks.
 

Dear Joyce:

Before I answer your questions I have to start by saying that enhancing travertine may turn out to be tricky: some times the stone is not dense uniformly and when that happens you may get a blotchy enhancement. So, before you make any decision, you should try on a few spare tiles by rubbing them with baby oil to see if your stone will be able to get enhanced properly. (The bay oil will evaporate in a matter of a couple of days.)

Assuming that your travertine can be successfully enhanced, then the answers to your questions are:
  1. A couple of weeks.
  2. It is best not.
  3. Moot.
  4. Like I said before, a couple of weeks.

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Ciao and good luck,

Mauri z io Bertoli

 

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Article ID: 645
Created On: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 3:28 PM
Last Updated On: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Authored by: Maurizio Bertoli [mail@mbstone.com]

Online URL: https://marblecleaning.org/knowledgebase/article.php?id=645