This Rainforest Marble flooring located in Longwood had a coating sealer applied in the past in attempt to give the Marble floor for gloss. However the sealer coating quickly scratched and embedded soil into the surface. Nothing will beat a natural polishing procedure on a Marble floor.
Popular treatments to Marble include Antiquing, Brushed, Tumbled, and Leathering. These processes will create a different texture, and in this case, Antiqued marble, the softer minerals in the stone were removed for an Old World look.
Along with the Tumbled edge, these stones can be more difficult to maintain due to the depressed areas within the surface. Another cleaning company tried to clean the floor with muratic acid, resulting in deep etching damage, also further damaging this floor in Winter Springs.
Clean Image of Orlando was able to remove the deeply embedded soiling and complete the marble polishing. However additional diamond sanding may be required to remove acid damage, without removing the antiqued appearance.
This home in Longwood shows how cleaning alone can make a big difference, even on polished marble. Clean Image of Orlando was one of the first companies to establish themselves using the pressurized steam spray within a vacuum recovery. The tool shown was designed and built by us before the turbo hybrid became popular.
Look at what our marble polishing techniques did to this checkered floor? Clean Image of Orlando professionals know exactly what is needed to turn that dull, worn look into a bright new shine.
The marble installation in this 4th floor condo in Winter Park was very uneven. It had tiles with depressed corners that attracted soil. The grout lines became dark and soiled as well due to the lippage. Clean Image of Orlando had to grind the floor flat, using diamond resins and an Italian marble machine. This process is done wet to eliminate all dust, and is contained to ensure the safety of personal property. After grinding and honing, the floor was brought up to a low polish, satisfying the owner’s preference.
The owner of this house in Longwood used hairspray every day. After a year of continued residue buildup and constantly pivoting in the same area with day-to-day use, she was left with an etched floor with some deep scratches from sand and abrasives. The first step was to deep clean the grout and marble. Clean Image of Orlando then restored the marble floor with a two-step diamond honing process, followed by an active polishing compound. When we were finished restoring the mirror like finish, the owner was hesitant to walk on it because she thought it was wet!
This Longwood homeowner said that the floor lost it’s ‘life’ and shine, and that the dirty grout made the room look small. Clean image of Orlando gave the floor a deep cleaning, which includes grout cleaning as well as a perimeter scrub, followed by a mechanical active polish.
This marble floor in Heathrow had been crystallized in the past, and was starting to show some yellowing and heavy scratching. To properly remove a crystallized finish, most of the time it needs to be mechanically removed. In this case the Italian Klindex with the counter rotating planetary attachment was chosen. This shows the process immediately after grinding, and then the finished product after diamond honing and using an active polishing compound to bring the floor back to life.
This is a close up of what exactly causes marble and natural stone to lose its luster, fine scratches. This marble in Lake Mary in installed in the master bath with under cabinet lighting. The constant pivoting and foot traffic causes fine scratches that over time rob the stone of its natural reflective shine. Clean Image of Orlando was able to repair this to like new with diamond abrasives and polishing.
This large format Crema-Marfil marble was cleaned, polished, and sealed.
This marble was vein cut and installed with the veining of the stone lined up for a dramtic effect. This floor cleaned, to remove wax build-up out of the grout, diamond honed, polished and sealed.