Limestone Polishing

[Cameron DeMille]

We installed new office floor for a client to match up with their existing floor. The material is Beaumaniere French Limestone. The new floor was honed and he existing is polished.

I used Stone Pro resin diamonds and Stone Pro 5x, then sealed with MB Stone Care's MB-4 Impregnator.

The shine isn't that great, but this is a very soft limestone. I'm happy with the results.

Please excuse the watermark, I am playing around with a trial photo program.

Before

After

other angles

 

[Mikey P]

that must have been a lot of milk.




really nice!

 

[Ron Lippold]

Very very nice.

 

[Charlie Lyman]

Will that scratch easy?

 

[Cameron DeMille]

It's a funny stone. It's limestone, so very soft by default, but light scratches don't really show up. It's more like minor gouges. Marble can get very light, faint scratches but this stuff will resist that well. It is extremely porous though and needs a good sealer. It wears the crap out of the diamonds, it's extremely abrasive. You'll go through a set in about 800 square feet

 

[CleaningLA]

Very nice.

 

[alazo1]

Looks great. I wonder if using a densifier before honing would help in increasing diamond life. I know it's done on concrete but wonder if it works on stone.

Albert

 

[ted mcfadden]

Looks great. I wonder if using a densifier before honing would help in increasing diamond life. I know it's done on concrete but wonder if it works on stone.

Albert

This has been tried a few times with mixed results. Densifiers don't seem to have a predictable effect on calcite (calcium Carbonate) based material.

 

[Bee Busy]

NIce work Cameron