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Environmental 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 […]

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Building 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 […]

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Relative 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 […]

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Sungloss 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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Cork Flooring, Linoleum Flooring, and Concrete Flooring: Green Alternatives

This week we highlight some greener flooring materials that may have been hiding ‘under our feet’ without widespread knowledge of their environmental nature. And, we are excited to inform you Sungloss Marble Restoration is able to refresh, renew, and restore these flooring materials for you! Cork Flooring is a renewable resource. It is harvested every […]

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Common Customer Questions Regarding Marble, Granite, Terrazzo, Limestone, and Other Natural Stone Refinishing

At Sungloss Marble Restoration we enjoy talking with our customers, and making sure they are educated on what benefits we offer to their concrete, terrazzo, marble, limestone, Silestone, granite, travertine, or other natural stone, and how we approach the work we do. During the course of our history of cleaning, concrete refinishing, polishing, grinding, honing, […]

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Sustainable Modernization and Green Appeal in the Stone Maintenance, Cleaning, Polishing, and Restoration Industry

At Sungloss Marble Restoration Company, one of the things we offer to our real estate developers, banks, condominium associations, homeowners, and real estate management clients to name a few, is the ability to increase the curb appeal of their property. The services we provide are all designed to improve the quality and beauty of a […]

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Big and Small Jobs Pt 2: Marble, Granite, Terrazzo, Limestone, and Other Natural Stone Restoration and Refinishing

When we think back through our 20-year history we are amazed at the progress and growth of the industry. We marvel how the US Green Building Council and LEED, along with the Marble Institute of America (MIA) have become guideposts in our effort to be the most environmentally friendly home and professional marble, granite, terrazzo […]

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Big and Small Jobs Pt 1: Marble, Granite, Terrazzo, Limestone, and Other Natural Stone Restoration and Refinishing

At Sungloss Marble Restoration Company, we have a history of performing all different kinds of historic restoration, refinishing, cleaning, colorizing, sealing, honing, and polishing work. We have done some big jobs, small jobs, and a few pretty weird jobs along the way. We even have contributed to a LEED-CI certified project in Chicago this year. […]

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Green Choices in Marble, Terrazzo, Slate, and Other Natural Stone – Recycled Glass Terrazzo and Tumbled Marble

It seems like choosing natural stone can have multiple effects towards a green environment. There are two stone surfaces that come to mind that use reclaimed material, which embody a green approach starting out of the gate. Glass terrazzo is terrazzo made with recycled pieces of glass, instead of marble chips. According to an article […]

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