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Make Your Floor Shiny With Our Travertine Restoration Process

Ken — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:50:30 +0000

A large majority of people that have travertine restoration performed are inclined to lean towards a glossy surface. In a certain amount of cases this poses a problem in the end. Despite all the warnings and detailed pictures homeowners often don’t heed the advice given. To begin with an overwhelmingly amount of travertine imported to [...]

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Marble & Travertine Restoration

Ken — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:24:04 +0000

When comparing marble and travertine restoration services they can be overwhelming and quite deceiving. A portion of people are motivated by price when selecting a company. This by itself may very well lead to a disastrous result. A maintenance or janitorial company will not have the proper tools or experience to restore natural stone. This [...]

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How To Clean Marble Floors

Ken — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:41:24 +0000

Cleaning marble and travertine floors is not as complicated as some make it out to be. The article referenced below apparently has been composed by someone that truly has not much experience with cleaning marble and travertine floors. For purposes of this article we can forgo the composition of the stone. The first major error [...]

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Cleaning Marble And Travertine

Ken — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:33:40 +0000

Several methods are available for cleaning marble and travertine. However, there are fewer choices when it comes to selecting an appropriate cleaner to perform the task at hand. The article we have referenced below comments on a cleaner but fail to give the requisite ingredients it is made up of. Merely being a pH neutral [...]

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Tips On Limestone Sealing Plano|Dallas

Ken — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:41:22 +0000

Sealing Limestone: 4 Tips and Mistakes to Avoid Limestone tiles can add a distinctive look to any floor, wall or fireplace, but sealing limestone is key to ensure durability in the years to come. Here are 4 tips and mistakes to avoid when sealing limestone. Handle with Care Limestone is for the most part quite [...]

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Travertine Steam Cleaning & Sealing Dallas|Plano

Ken — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:01:12 +0000

One of the more frequent questions we are asked is how do we maintain our travertine tile floors (or other surfaces). There is a great deal of misinformation on the Internet, that given at Floor Stores, Home Repair Box Stores, installers and even so-called stone restoration companies etc. A few tips for the day: 1) [...]

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Marble Polishing Dallas|Plano

Ken — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:06:47 +0000

You have most likely seen Emperador Dark Marble somewhere. It’s all over the place, very popular for bathrooms as well as furniture pieces. I don’t know if I’ve ever walked into a furniture showroom without seeing this marble on some table or decorative sculpture Emperador Dark marble comes from a bedrock quarry in Spain. It [...]

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Saltillo Restoration

Ken — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:08:04 +0000

Saltillo restoration was performed for a client of ours in Irving. Ms Layton had extensive damage as a result of water damage from broken plumbing. As the pictures illustrate it was in very bad shape. We initially stripped it all the way down to the raw tile. Next, we addressed the efflorescence and stained the [...]

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Dangers Of Stone Restoration Part 4

Ken — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:54:55 +0000

As with most issues there is good news and bad news. The good news is when we have been in contact with our affiliate stone restoration associates around the country, quite a few of them have related that local franchise operations that practice this crystallization (aka virtification etc) have been going out of business. For [...]

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Dangers Of Stone Restoration Part 3

Ken — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:55:12 +0000

In our previous posts we have provided you with the facts about crystallization and the imminent dangers. In this post we would like to show you a small sample of some floors we have encountered that have fallen victim to this process. The verdict is clear. Most companies that utilize this process do not tell [...]

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