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Natural Stone- Adaptable With Your Changing Tastes and Trends
Many consumers are unaware that their highly polished marble, granite, travertine, or limestone surfaces can be refinished to a different luster. If you are changing your home, that high gloss white marble floor can be honed to a flat finish to better represent your new style. From countertops to floors, honing your material can change […]
Continue readingNatural Stone Selection Now on IPad
You don’t need to travel to Europe to find natural stones. With the tap of your finger you can see beautiful stones of North America. Dozens of marbles, granites and other natural stone samples. The Marble Institute of America has created an app for the I Pad. The only app for finding locally sourced stone, […]
Continue readingLOBBIES – not the Legislative kind, believe me.
The Building or Hotel Lobby is usually the very 1st impression that a visitor has at a property. Often the impression is not even thought about or talked about – rather it is an unconscious impression and memory that remains with the visitor for ______ days, weeks, months ? And all too often – also […]
Continue readingWHEN IS GRANITE NOT GRANITE??
Usually when it’s black. As some Geologists simply state: ” there is no black Granite stone”. And, our experience is that the Black Absolutes and the other popular black Granites are subject to acid etching and staining much like the calcium carbonate based stones – marble, limestone, onyx and the like. They can lose their […]
Continue readingNatural Stone Memorials
Memorial Day reminds me – among other things – of the very profound and beautiful memorials we have constructed in the USA….most of all , made of Marble or Granite… Of course, the Lincoln Memorial comes to mind: its massive, sitting Lincoln carved professionally looking out at his responsibilities to our country…while sitting clean, authoritative […]
Continue readingPorcelain, Pre-cast Limestone and Epoxy Terrazzo
There are many different kinds of surfaces in the world – to walk on, to hold things up ( walls ) and to beautify a bldg. ( facades ). ” Curve balls ” in our industry can fool even the most experienced professional … Porcelain originally was clay heated to a certain temp, mixed with Granite […]
Continue readingChicagoland Spring Cleaning
Sungloss Marble Restoration Company has been serving Chicagoland for over 20 years, in the business of natural stone restoration. We’ve served our clients’ needs anywhere from in Federal building or condominium and hotel lobbies, private residences, or construction sites, to name a few. Our customers include homeowners, banks, businesses, developers, villages, or even State or […]
Continue readingWater-Related Issues in Your Natural Stone
The recent flooding in the Western, Southwestern and Northern Suburbs of Chicago – causing a Federal emergency re both lower and 1st level damages – also included lots of marble, travertine, terrazzo and granite floors… It reminded me of ” water absorption” of stone floors and counters, the measurement of the same and the sealing […]
Continue readingMIA Restoration Committee
The MIA ( Marble Institute of America ) based in Cleveland, OH..has initiated a Restoration Committee composed of practicing experts from around the country – putting their talents and brains together to help solve the many, many ” sticky issues ” and confronting problems that face residential and commercial consumers – ACROSS THE WORLD who […]
Continue readingThe 8 Beatitudes of Natural Stone Care
The “Eight Beatitudes” of keeping your natural stone beautiful (the way it should be). For building managers, developers, homeowners and designers. 1. Choose your stone wisely – don’t mix granite with marble with wood with metal interspersed, unless you want to spend big money with maintenance and aftercare, probably substandard. The care, smaller machinery and […]
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