Mechanical Restoration |
Mechanical restoration of a stone floor means mechanically sanding the floor to remove scratches, blemishes, acid etches, and anything else that might negatively affect its appearance.
Typically, mechanical restoration is combined with chemical repolishing to properly refinish a stone floor.
To mechanically sand a stone floor, The Stone Poets usually begin with an aggressive, coarse grit sanding disk, something that removes a large amount of stone from the face of the floor relatively quickly. Once the initial sanding pass is completed, the floor needs to be sanded again seveal times, using progressively finer sanding disk grits to begin producing a reflection on the surface of the floor.
Many stone restoration companies will refer to each sanding pass as a "step," identifying the service as "three step diamond sanding," or "four step diamond sanding." The more steps needed to properly finish the floor mechanically, the more the job typically costs.
Honed stone floors usually stop at two or three diamond sanding passes, and never require an additional chemical polishing pass, so can usually be completed for less money than can a polished stone floor.
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