Refinish area with hand buffer or weighted 175 rpm floor machine at 130 140 lbs fitted with a natural hair pad.
Buffing stone floors.
2 10 per square foot including floor wash to prep grout line application of powder solution polishing.
The most effective type of buffing pad for stone floors is one with diamond.
Apply approximately 1 2 cup shining powder plus 1 cup clean water to stone surface.
But just like standard buffing pads diamond pads come in various grit sizes for removing more or less material per rotation.
This is simply because standard buffing pads won t make even the tiniest dimple in stone.
A standard 175 rpm floor machine with a special heavy drive plate is used to create the heat and friction needed to form and polish the crystals.
To polish a floor use commercially available polishing powder and an automatic scrubber or.
Add shining powder as needed.
Buffing removes the scratches and leaves the floor with a renewed shine.
Using special polishing pads with a buffing machine is like sanding down all the blemishes and resurfacing the tiles.
Renewing stone flooring through polish can be accomplished by do it yourselfers through commercial kits.
Polishing floor with diamond powder.
Burnishing natural stone floor with a diamond impregnated pad.