I have recently completed a kitchen floor comprising of 600 x 900 x 15(ish) polished limestone.
The limestone came as part of a 'bespoke' kitchen order and the floor was part of a very tight schedule!
The stone came in 2 crates. In one crate the tiles looked nice with neat edges and an obvious polished top side and matt uderside.
The other crate appeared more 'rustic' with tumbled corners and a lot dustier/dirtier than crate 1.
Anyway the customer asked if we could make sure that the 'nicer ones' were in the main areas and where possible the more 'rustic ones' under the units etc.
I didn't think this was unreasonable so proceeded.
When we got to crate 2 which was supposedly part of the same batch we realised that there was no evident 'polish' to either side and you could see where the tile had been calibrated on both sides.
We pointed this out to the customer who asked us to lay them as the Kitchen was arriving in 2 days along with the plumber and electrician!
Anyway long story short the tiles are down with a small number that have no visible polish, what (if any) would be the procedure to get a more uniform appearance, i.e can you retrospectively polish a tile such as this.
The Kitchen company apparently sent another tiler round when I wasn't there who pointed out all the matt tiles saying they were upside down. How they could be upside down when they don't have a top is beyond me.
They have taken responsibility though (as they should being the supplier) and are apparently sending a stone mason over to wet polish the tiles.
In a perfect world I would have stopped as soon as we had realised the fault however my work partner did his back in during the job so I was working 12 hour days to get the job done
Sorry for the rant.
The limestone came as part of a 'bespoke' kitchen order and the floor was part of a very tight schedule!
The stone came in 2 crates. In one crate the tiles looked nice with neat edges and an obvious polished top side and matt uderside.
The other crate appeared more 'rustic' with tumbled corners and a lot dustier/dirtier than crate 1.
Anyway the customer asked if we could make sure that the 'nicer ones' were in the main areas and where possible the more 'rustic ones' under the units etc.
I didn't think this was unreasonable so proceeded.
When we got to crate 2 which was supposedly part of the same batch we realised that there was no evident 'polish' to either side and you could see where the tile had been calibrated on both sides.
We pointed this out to the customer who asked us to lay them as the Kitchen was arriving in 2 days along with the plumber and electrician!
Anyway long story short the tiles are down with a small number that have no visible polish, what (if any) would be the procedure to get a more uniform appearance, i.e can you retrospectively polish a tile such as this.
The Kitchen company apparently sent another tiler round when I wasn't there who pointed out all the matt tiles saying they were upside down. How they could be upside down when they don't have a top is beyond me.
They have taken responsibility though (as they should being the supplier) and are apparently sending a stone mason over to wet polish the tiles.
In a perfect world I would have stopped as soon as we had realised the fault however my work partner did his back in during the job so I was working 12 hour days to get the job done
Sorry for the rant.
