http://sungloss.com/professional-stone-care-and-feeding-of-black-marble-and-limestone/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sungloss.com/professional-stone-care-and-feeding-of-black-marble-and-limestone/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Granite Cleaning, Granite Polishing, Granite Sealing | Sungloss Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:52:34 +0000 http://sungloss.com/?p=496#comment-22 [...] There are myths about granite, too numerous to enumerate all here. We’ll just cut to the chase—granite needs upkeep! It is not a lower-maintenance stone, just a ‘different-maintenance’ stone. And the stone industry makes things harder for us and our customers when they take stone not technically classified as granite and call it ‘granite.’ Often we learned about unusual or unexpected properties of these “fake” granites in the midst of working on it—Black Absolute granite is the prime example. It took some elbow grease and consulting with our partners in the industry to come up with a multi-faceted approach to restoring and polishing Black Absolute when it first came up in popularity, because of the fact that some fabricators would infuse black dyes into mystery stone and call it black granite…but that’s a separate story. [...] [...] There are myths about granite, too numerous to enumerate all here. We’ll just cut to the chase—granite needs upkeep! It is not a lower-maintenance stone, just a ‘different-maintenance’ stone. And the stone industry makes things harder for us and our customers when they take stone not technically classified as granite and call it ‘granite.’ Often we learned about unusual or unexpected properties of these “fake” granites in the midst of working on it—Black Absolute granite is the prime example. It took some elbow grease and consulting with our partners in the industry to come up with a multi-faceted approach to restoring and polishing Black Absolute when it first came up in popularity, because of the fact that some fabricators would infuse black dyes into mystery stone and call it black granite…but that’s a separate story. [...]

]]> http://sungloss.com/professional-stone-care-and-feeding-of-black-marble-and-limestone/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Stone Restoration: Beauty Is In the Eye Of the Beholder | Sungloss Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:11:42 +0000 http://sungloss.com/?p=496#comment-12 [...] also even written about ‘fake’ black granite in this blog, which can throw professionals who maintain and restore it (us!) for a [...] [...] also even written about ‘fake’ black granite in this blog, which can throw professionals who maintain and restore it (us!) for a [...]

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