SHlifovka and polishing of stone floors (marble, a granite and so forth)

Natural stone materials are historically used for cover of floors public and residential buildings where architectural expressiveness and good wear resistance is required. The choice of a kind of rock for a floor covering depends on operational loads on a floor. So, for floors in halls and underground transitions where intensity of movement firm breeds (a granite, gabbro) are very great, preferable. Application in such premises of marble leads to floor rapid wear. It is impossible to lay floors from breeds of different hardness s it leads to non-uniform deterioration and infringement of flatness of a floor.

Marble floors are very effective and beautiful. But they wear out and crumble in due course, losing the attractive appearance. And anything here you will not do - people go from street, and even three-stage protective protivogryazevyie carpets (extended enough now) not always rescue from deterioration. At the expense of abrasive effect of grains of sand being in a dirt - on a stone surface scratches, sometimes deep enough are formed. If defects of a stone are so serious, that preparations on the basis of wax and polymeric materials cannot help with its restoration any more, remains two exits:

To change floors/steps or their parts for the new;

Polishing and restoration of floors.

In the first case, replacement of a floor tile and steps, as a rule, is connected with the big capital costs and long closing of a premise "on repair". But there is also other exit:

First grinding car Karlo of Kazan 1904/1910

The Italian masters in the beginning of 20th century have developed special cars which allow successfully pereshlifovat and perepolirovat a stone, not removing it from a surface of a floor (ladder). Thus, after processing, the stone starts to sparkle again protogenic freshness and novelty.

By an action principle such car reminds usual rotornuyu the floor car, only instead of brushes in it stand abrasive, korundovyie or diamond) sharoshki, same as are used for manufacturing of stone plates industrially. The worn out surface is cut off on 1-3 mm, and then by means of the same car is ground and polished. In case the reflectivity factor remains at low level (less than 70 % for marble and 90 % for a granite), crystallisation process (this process allows to make also a stone surface of more abrasive resistant) can be made. About crystallisation process - we will talk little bit later, in the chapter devoted to care by firm floors.

The well-groomed stone has that advantage, that its surface becomes impenetrable to insignificant pollution, pushing away and not allowing to be detained in itself a dirt, in comparison with rougher surface. Accordingly, behind the processed stone surface easier professionally to look after, make protection and cleaning. We receive all these conveniences in addition to a magnificent kind of floors.

What is more economic - replacement of stone plates or repolishing?

As show researches - cost of works on polishing approximately in 5-6 times more low, than cost of complete replacement of floors or their refacing by a new stone. For comparison: cost of polishing of marble of 1 sq.m. experts can fluctuate (depending on quality, deterioration, type, obema works etc.) from 3,00$ to 20,00$, cost of new cheapest marble of 1 sq.m. makes 25,00$-27,00$, disregarding expenses for it zastilku, and it still plus of 10 %-20 % from material cost!

Thus it is not necessary to forget and about economy of time which is rather essential at restoration of floors by polishing. At the skilful organisation of works (for example it if to conduct all works at night) it is possible not to close at all a premise on repair. It too rather essential factor.

But - the main thing the FLOOR! It after repolishing is received more equal, almost ideal. It is very similar to the floors laid on the Italian system - when stack shlifovannyie plates and already at-sight them definitively polish (the technology applied by builders in TTS).

There is a question, and whether always it is possible pereshlifovat a stone surface? Under what conditions it should be done?

Variant when in a floor covering simply is absent 20 and more % of plates, we will not discuss, of course, and we will speak only about those floors where all cover is whole.

Polishing process is expedient for applying at depth of hollows or differences between plates to 3-4 mm on marble floors and 1-2 mm on granite, at an average thickness of plates of 20-30 mm (to level deeper hollows too many forces and means is required). But depth of hollows in 5-6 mm meets not often. In 90 cases from 100 depth of scratches and differences does not exceed 3-4 mm. And in this case pereshlifovyivat not only it is possible, but also it is necessary. And even if on a surface is a little deep having chopped off all the same such floor can be restored. All surface on depth of the basic hollows is ground, and deep are simply closed up - for this purpose there are their special methods zadelki, for example, by means of glues for a stone (). Certainly, if it is a lot of deep hollows, polishing process is inexpedient. In this case, really, partial or complete replacement of floor cover can rescue only. But the expert can define it only.

Now we will tell about grinding cars and grinding stones.

At the moment in the Moscow market of the equipment for kliningovyih the companies the engineering and the equipment for restoration of the lost shine of floors from a natural stone is widely presented. This equipment, basically, foreign manufacturers, but already there are quite sound and inexpensive domestic models.

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