Breaking trail to our Travertine job

Mark Saiger

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No plows out yet

About 6 plus inches fresh stuff still coming down

Slippery too.

Snow up to the bumper is in the back areas

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Mark Saiger

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Travertine loaded with ironiron ore dust

2 Rotovac 360 XL's

One with Red pad under drive block

Other with Tile and grout head...

Working good in this job today!
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Mark Saiger

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The Rotovac 360 XL's were really nice to use on this job today.

One set up with the Red Drive Block and Red pad...

the other with the new Tile and Grout cleaning head....

Not going to replace your Turbo but nice for this type of soiled job.

Super smooth and not feeling beat up running the Turbo all day....

This one had a lot of Red Iron ore dust...get's all over everything as they have a production plant right down the road....nasty stuff sometimes....

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GeneMiller

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nice job. i never use the red pads on travertine, just the white. of course, I'm not an expert on marble. the one time i did it seemed to dull it a bit.
 
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Mikey P

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nice job. i never use the red pads on travertine, just the white. of course, I'm not an expert on marble. the one time i did it seemed to dull it a bit.
Travertine almost always "dulls" after cleaning.

Removing built up oily soil that caused a false shine
Possible peroxide etching
Possible high alkaline 'burn/etch
Dulling from over agitation like Gene mentioned
 
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