Marble Polishing San Jose
Stone Restoration and Marble Polishing services:
Natural stone such as marble is the most beautiful choice when installing new floors, kitchen counter tops, vanities, and showers in your home. There are 1000's of different colors and choices when it comes to marble, travertine and other natural stones. There are marbles like Serpentine, White Carrera, Botticino, or Rosa Perlino. Granites like Jet Black, Baltic Brown, Counter White, or Deer Isle. Maybe you chose a stone like Travertine or Limestone.When you chose natural stone you expected it's natural beauty and elegance to last a lifetime.With proper care natural stone such as marble will last forever. Through no fault of your own marble, travertine and other stones can experience problems with wear, etching, improper cleaning agents, scratches, or loss of shine. In most cases this damage can be restored and brought back to "Like New" condition.
Let's cover the major points in getting your marble or travertine surfaces looking new and beautiful again.
Marble Cleaning / Natural Stone Cleaning
Obviously, all surfaces need to be cleaned on a regular basis. Not only for appearance, but for health and preservation of the surface. Professional cleaning periodically is vital to maintaining a beautiful natural stone or tile and grout surface. Professional Maintenance Cleanings every 6 months to a Year will help maintain and preserve marble and other natural stone surface, especially floors. Cleaning followed by a light polishing or buffing will keep the hard surfaces looking beautiful and shining year round. Professional cleaning will get the grout lines looking good again too.
Marble and other natural stone Restoration and polishing
Unfortunately, cleaning may not solve the more serious issues with your natural stone surfaces such as Marble. Restoration may be needed before a "cleaning program" is to begin. Let's cover some points to determine if your natural stone needs to be restored. First, have an experienced professional from a marble polishing and stone restoration company inspect your hard surface issues. This way you will know what can be restored and determine what needs to be done. In most cases restoration is the cheaper option versus replacing the surface.
There are primarily 2 categories for restoration:
Simple Restoration. Honing, Polishing Marble and other stone
This refinishing of stone is known as the "2 Step Procedure". The first step involves Honing the very top of the marble.With honing the top of the stone will be "filed away". This can eliminate most etching and some or all of the light scratches. Honing will bring some clarity back to the stone too. The second step of simple marble restoration is Polishing. Polishing is meant to produce a high gloss finish your floors, counter tops, showers, and vanities. This involves techniques not found in the stone manufacturing process. In most cases polishing can bring back the gloss to factory finish or close to it. Nonetheless the appearance will be much better.
3 Step Restoration
Marble Polishing / Stone restoration / Resurfacing
A natural stone surface such as a marble floor may require the "3 Step Procedure" in order to have the hard surface properly restored. This may involve Grinding prior to Deep Honing and Polishing Procedures. This more aggressive procedure may need to be done if the surface has extreme etching, deep scratches, excessive wear and dulling. Tiles with "high edges" or lippage, may need to be ground down. Done properly the deep honing will bring back the beautiful clarity in the stone-thus producing an even better polish or gloss. You may even have what we call a Honed finish on the surface. This natural stone look has a lower sheen or matte finish. Honed or Polish is in the eyes of the beholder. Even though this procedure can solve most issues with floor damage; areas with deep scratches, gouges, or nicks may need to be repaired or filled. This will all depend on the make-up or integrity of the marble, travertine or other natural stone.
Natural Stone Services
| Marble Cleaning |
Granite Cleaning |
Countertops |
| Marble Polishing |
Granite Sealing |
Floors |
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| Marble Honing |
Stone Restoration |
Walls |
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| Travertine Cleaning |
Marble Countertop Polishing |
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| Travertine Honing |
Marble Countertop Cleaning |
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| Travertine Polishing |
Marble Showers |
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| Marble Floors |
Marble Grinding |
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Our Experience and Training
We were trained by world renowed Maurizio Bertoli in Marble Polishing and other Stone Restoration as well as being certified by the IICRC.
Our Service Areas:
San Jose
Los Gatos
Los Altos
Saratoga
Sunnyvale
Palo Alto
Mountain View
Silvercreek
Almaden Valley and others
