Santa Fe Floor Care

Marble Floor Polishing and Stone Restoration Austin, TX

Client: Homeowner in Austin Texas
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A 50-year-old marble floor restored in Austin, TX

Restoring and Polishing a Marble

Marble floors are stunning and elegant. However, they require proper care to maintain their beauty. At Santa Fe Floor Care, we recently faced a challenge that tested our expertise. A 50-year-old marble floor in Austin, Texas, had suffered significant damage due to improper cleaning.

How to restore marble floors?

Marble floors are beautiful and classy. But they do need some attention to thrive. We at Santa Fe Floor Care recently tested our expertise! A 50 year old marble floor in Austin, Texas, had received some serious damage from not being cleaned properly.

How do you maintain marble floors?

The grout lines and the marble floor were badly worn. The damage happened after an acidic solution was used to clean the grout. This acidic cleaner stained the marble, leaving visible etchings and dull-looking spots. Needless to say, the homeowners were left reeling from the damage. It is important to only use PH neutral cleaners made for stone when doing regular maintenance.

How do you fix an etched marble floor?

We were able to remove the etching and restore the marble to how it looked when new using a very careful process. We first used diamond-embedded resin honing pads to resurface the marble. These pads grind away the damaged layers of the marble and reveal a fresh and smooth surface. This step needs to be repeated several times with finer grit each time.

Can marble floors be polished?

After completing six passes of honing using diamond embedded honing pads it was time to polish. We used a circular hogs hair polishing pad along with a calcite stone polish. This is a very technical process and you are at great risk of re etching if the marble is not properly neutralized with an alkaline solution:

Can marble floors be cleaned?

It is important to use a PH neutral cleaner when dealing with marble maintenance. However it is also very important to get your marble and grout cleaned and sealed yearly by a professional for regular up keep.

Wrapping Up
Santa Fe Floor Care takes pride in restoring even the most damaged surfaces. The marble floor in Austin is 50 years old; it is a testimony of our passion and expertise. Get in touch if you have a floor that requires special treatment. We will restore its beauty, just as we did for this historic marble floor.

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Do you have marble or natural stone that needs to be restored to like new? Reach out to us. At Santa Fe Floor Care, we invite you to check our credentials to see for yourself why we are Austin, TX’s preferred and trusted floor care company. Get a Free Estimate Today or call (512) 632-1621 .