Should You Hone Marble With Acid

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Should you hone marble with acid. You can pay to have it honed by a marble specialty shop or you can do as i did and hone it yourself. I don t see a problem with a diyer honing marble. Start out sanding the surface of the granite with 100 grit sandpaper until a consistent gritty unpolished or honed surface is achieved. You will generally need to re seal your marble about once every few months.

If you have a honed white marble surface that shows acid etching you can either call in a stone professional to treat the surface or you can try the following technique on your own. Take a scouring pad and move in a circular motion to hone the material. Confirm that the majority of the shininess has been removed and manually sand corners or hard to reach spots with individual pieces of sandpaper. Polished marble will show all the etch marks but they are way less obvious with honed marble.

A honed surface is smoother than acid washed and will most likely show etch marks more easily than acid washed though with white marble they won t be very noticeable with honed but it will be less porous with greater stain resistance. Sealing will help prevent liquid and stains from working their way down into the pores of the stone. I shared how to hone marble with a full tutorial with domino. Sprinkle a scrubbing cleanser onto the surface with a few drops of water.

If you don t catch a spill quickly hello red wine spilled at a lasts until 2am dinner party there s hope. So any spills that happen on a honed surface have to be cleaned up immediately otherwise they can sink into the stone and cause an etch or even cracks and. It is much simpler than you might think. Secondly even with that you ll be there a while trying to get a nice even finish.

Getting out pesky stains. For instance i try to use natural and gentle. If you do find yourself getting lots of etch marks i did pick up this etch remover but haven t yet had to use it. First you ll most likely have to go with an emery cloth and i don t know if it even goes up to 4 600 grit which is what you need to hone the stone.

After just a. The downsides to a honed finish are that more of the stone s natural pores are exposed than on a gloss surface and because of that it is more susceptible to water or acid damage. So go find yourself some marble on the cheap and turn it into something beautiful. To start you should always make sure your marble honed or polished is properly sealed.