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Floor Care

Samir Sabu, Director, Soma Specialties Pvt
Ltd shares his knowledge of ideal processes
and floor maintenance techniques, and Sachin

Surie, Director, Surie Polex provides tips for
cleaning and prolonging the life of stone

floors (in the boxes).

Nature of stone Marble floors
Granite and marble are as Stone floors become dull over
different from each other as time due to harmful polishing
chalk and cheese. Granite is chemicals, high foot traffic
hard, resistant and does not get movement, scuff marks from
scratched or damaged easily. shoes, dirt and dust that settle on Samir Sabu
Hot temperatures do not affect it the floors. The beauty of any stone
much. On the other hand, marble depends upon its ability to reflect
is composed of an interlocking the light falling on it i.e. its gloss
mosaic of carbonate crystals, whose levels. Keeping gloss levels intact
primary sedimentary textures requires periodic polishing.
and structures have already been Marble polishing can be a tricky
modified or destroyed. Granite task. A simple crystallising agent
is sturdier, but marble is more can make the floor look great
preferred for its beauty and variety. for a couple of months. Then, it
slowly eats away at the marble’s
Granite floors composite.

Granite comes in various colours Advanced floor pads
but the thumb rule is, darker the
colour, harder is the stone. Lighter The deep shine we see on
the appearance of granite, the softer polished stone is achieved by
it is; at times, it can become softer rubbing the stone with a series of
than marble too. The maintenance abrasive materials, mainly synthetic
of harder granite floors is relatively diamond abrasives. Nowadays, the
easy. Softer ones need all kinds of most preferred polishing process is Sachin Surie
protection, like all marble floors do.
Granite can have lots of pin
holes which get exposed when
grinding floors. The slurry created
by grinding settles inside these
pinholes, giving it a whitish
appearance. If polish is applied right
after grinding, the gloss will also get
scattered and make the stone look
worse than the initial condition. The
slurry has to be cleared from the
pinholes before applying polish.
Granite polishes can be in powder
form or a polymer-based polish.
The latter can also act as a sealant
after application.

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