Residential Sealing Services

To protect against your surface being stained.

Why is this a concern? Because

1. There Is no guarantee a stain can be removed
2. the more things that were tried to clean the surface the higher the likelihood the stain has been modified and potentially set
3. the cost of having a service person apply a poultice every 24 hours at a minimum visit cost rate 1 to 20 times can quickly approach the cost of replacement, which is why MARBLELIFE will offer to show you how to perform this service but even then can be many times more expensive than sealing.
4. Replacement is not a real option even if you can source a replacement from the same quarry mother nature lacks a quality program, so when the replacement is installed the human eye can discern the color difference, unless you replace the entire surface – expensive.

Instead arrange to have a MARBLELIFE Craftsman visit every 24 months to apply a seal OR you set your calendar to remind you to purchase your next seal treatment from www.MARBLELIFEPRODUCTS.com and self apply.

Yes

You have car insurance against the possibility of being involved in a car accident. If you have been in one you recognize this as a valid possibility. We have all met someone that has been in an accident, and seen them weekly on the highways and byways where we live.

Your marble floor or counter is present whenever you are walk by with a drink or prepare a meal. Once stained there is not guarantee it can be removed – or said another way – your marble could be totaled. That stain will forever remind you that it could have been avoided. Unless you know your stone has been sealed it is an eventuality that something is spilled with the potential to stain.

The cost of staining, your insurance, is a fraction of the cost of replacement, and generally needs to be done only every second year, unless the surface has encountered an acid, as acids will dissolve your seal. How quickly you ask? So quickly that we use them to actively remove a seal when we seek to address grout staining so that the surface will evenly accept the new treatment and subsequent seal. The only exception is if you know your surface has been resonated.

Resonation is the process of vacuuming a polyester resin through the pores of a stone slab in order to enhance its flexibility so that it can more easily survive the arduous ship transit from its home quarry around the world to your home. Most stone options available today were too brittle to be transported successfully without this process.

As the resonation must be able to do its job without altering the stone’s appearance it is engineered not to be seen. When working with a counter it may be observable on the backside (under the sink) but there are presently no non-destructive tests to confirm its presence. Most slabs and stones quarried since the late 90’s have been resonated, however if working with an older surface one is recommended to be safe-versus-sorry and have the surface sealing. Sealing is inexpensive versus replacement or a multi-poultice stain removal (which are not guaranteed to be successful).

Resonation is the process of vacuuming a polyester resin through the pores of a stone slab in order to enhance its flexibility so that it can more easily survive the arduous ship transit from its home quarry around the world to your home. Most stone options available today were too brittle to be transported successfully without this process.

As the resonation must be able to do its job without altering the stone’s appearance it is engineered not to be seen. When working with a counter it may be observable on the backside (under the sink) but there are presently no non-destructive tests to confirm its presence. Most slabs and stones quarried since the late 90’s have been resonated, however if working with an older surface one is recommended to be safe-versus-sorry and have the surface sealing. Sealing is inexpensive versus replacement or a multi-poultice stain removal (which are not guaranteed to be successful).

Sealing is essential to resisting stains. There is nothing more frustrating than learning a stain is permanent. This can mar an otherwise beautiful floor. Marble being a natural surface does not lend itself well to replacing a stain tile. While this is suitable for manmade tiles due to the quality assurance designed in to maintain color and pattern, mother nature has no such program. Even if a marble tile is quarried from the same quarry the variation in color can be sufficient that when installed the human eye can clearly detect the difference and identify the replaced tile as different.

When a marble restoration expert hones the surface they are removing the top layer of stone where the seal will be most concentrated. Not all pores reach the surface, so that newly revealed surface can have newly opened an unsealed pores capacble of being stained. If the expert uses the most advanced marble polishing compounds they will have an acid designed to facilitate the process. Acids dissolve the current seals that have been used on marble and granite for the past several decades effectively removing the seal. In both cases, it is prudent to reseal the surface. As such, they are not seeking to pad the invoice, but rather insure that your surface protection is restored after their work is completed.