How to Polish marble

Despite the natural strength, over time, marble loses its luster, tarnish and is covered by a network of microcracks. Marble needs special care and thorough polishing to preserve its original beauty. Polishing at home is quite difficult and time consuming process.

You will need

• Paraffin, sandpaper of different rooms, grinding wheels, soft cloth, sand, pumice-containing wax means to care for stone.

Instruction

1. Major damage (chips, cracks, deep scratches) to fix on its own will not succeed. Materials, accessible to the layman, you can only add luster to the marbleand to remove minor defects. For polishing do not use products that contain any acids: they are destroying the stone structure, eventually leading to fracture. Wax and lacostera means will not damage the stone. Some damaged marbletion surfaces are difficult to remove without abrading.
2. Rough marble- ing the surface with noticeable changes first polished with coarse abrasives, such as grinding wheels and rails. The circles are attached to a special drill. Fine sand and pumice can also be used for grinding. To the marble glistened and looked perfectly smooth, for polishing use a few rooms of abrasives. To make the stone monolithic type you need to remove a significant layer of material (not less than 3 mm). Small items can be sanded fine sandpaper.
3. After sanding, helps to eliminate shallow potholes, cracks and scratches, marble must be protected from external impact by using the polishing that will give the marblethe glitter. To do this, use the special tools on a wax-based, they fill the cracks and protect against water, dirt, food dyes and other destructive substances.To carry out the polishing using a mixture of fine ground iron oxide and sulphur; after applying this powder RUB the surface with a piece of leather to Shine. Sprinkle the marble with wax and rubbed it dry with a soft canvas, you will also give it Shine and protect from harmful influences.