Commercial Buildings’ Stone Restoration and the Environment
One of biggest goals at Sungloss Marble Restoration Company (besides providing excellent stone cleaning and restoration) is to assist large and small commercial buildings to reduce their impact on the environment. We encounter opportunities to show our value to commercial buildings, developers, designers, banks, and construction companies in many ways. We observed one such opportunity […]
Continue readingPreparation and Service in Marble Restoration and Maintenance Projects
At Sungloss Marble Restoration, we work with commercial and residential clients to provide the highest level of service, expertise, and education. During a marble, granite, terrazzo, slate, limestone, bluestone, or other natural stone maintenance, polishing, or restoration project, there are many steps of preparation that go into our service, some of which may or may […]
Continue readingSungloss Marble Restoration Visits Surfaces and World of Concrete Trade Shows
This week we are glad to report Lisa Park, Sungloss Marble Restoration’s Vice President, attended the Surfaces and World of Concrete trade shows in Las Vegas last week. Among the highlights of the shows was her visit with Jim Hieb of the Marble Institute of America, and learning more about grinding and polishing, as well […]
Continue readingGreen Practices in Our Marble Restoration Contractor Work
Sungloss Marble Restoration Company admittedly goes through a lot of supplies in our daily work of marble, granite, limestone, terrazzo, slate, and other natural stone restoration, cleaning, and polishing. We have ‘honed’ our practices over the 20 years in this business, to recognize ways to deliver high quality stone restoration work while being smart about […]
Continue readingMaintenance and Planning Tips For Natural Stone Restoration
The goal for our blog about natural stone is to provide education and tips about natural stone care and maintenance, as well as explore ways we all can contribute to a greener world. This week, we at Sungloss Marble Restoration Company observed two recurring things our customers encounter, and wanted to share. Murphy’s Oil Soap, […]
Continue readingCommercial Marble and Granite Restoration – What Exactly is Wet Grinding?
Being in the business of commercial marble, granite, limestone and terrazzo restoration in lobbies, reception areas, and the like, we at Sungloss Marble Restoration use a process called ‘wet grinding’ often. However, not all our clients would be able to accurately describe that process, or its’ parameters. Simply speaking, wet grinding stone is akin to […]
Continue readingEnvironmental Impact of the Building Industry, EPA and U.S. Green Building Council
Part of Sungloss Marble Restoration Company’s Green Mission Statement says “we cannot, in good conscience, promote our services without knowing our impact on the environment is as tempered and light as possible.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) are two titans of leadership in the promotion of environmentally friendly […]
Continue readingBuilding Green, Restoring Green
Sungloss Marble Restoration Company admires BuildingGreen.com as a rich resource of information to builders and designers to ultimately “bring the built environment into greater harmony with the natural environment.” It is a one-stop-shopping site for reading on all aspects of environmentally responsible building, from single-family home issues to corporate responsibility and everything in between. The […]
Continue readingRelative Costs of Granite, Marble, and Other Stone Restoration and Maintenance
We are repeatedly asked questions about stone maintenance costs and procedures. At Sungloss Marble Restoration Company, we emphasize customer education, to help everyone to be on the same page when it comes to making decisions. Here are a few issues that have come up recently: Natural Stone Sealing. It seems the internet and every stone […]
Continue readingSungloss Marble Restoration – Restoring Natural Stone Commercial Lobbies and Entries
At Sungloss Marble Restoration, our foundation of quality refinishing is largely based on relationships with banks, hotels, condominiums, commercial, and government buildings in the city and suburbs in the Chicago area. Any given day will find us cleaning, grinding, polishing, and/or sealing a marble lobby or granite entry of a commercial building. It is this […]
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