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Please help – I’ve cut an arch into my wall to increase my view. For the ledge I installed a custom piece of crema mar fil marble. The painter dripped some paint onto the marble, and wiped it off with sometype of abrasive sponge. Now it has several small surface scratches and the appearance is dull. I need to remove the scratches and bring back the shine. I cannot take it to be refinished because it is built in. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Automotive polishes will work fine for this. Start with a very mild compound ( I like Meguire's products; -their #9 would be correct) applied with a right angle polisher and pad. If you don't have a polisher/sander you can buy an inexpensive kit to chuck into a drill. See if the mild compound takes out the scratches well enough to suit your tastes. If not, use more aggressive compounds (in the case of Meguire's, #3, or strongest, #1) until the scratches and dull areas are gone. Then work back up the chain until you finish with the finest formula. That should take care of it. You could also call your marble fabricator and either have them sell you some of the products they use, or have them come out and fix it themselves and hand the bill to the painters who were dumb enough to use abrasives so incompetently.
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Right on David! Back charge those drunken wifebeaters. When will they learn that if they spill something, it is best if they just leave it without trying to wipe it up?
Karatich, the dullness may be caused by the residue of whatever was spilled. The scratches can be polished off though. Every surface has scratches, even polished marble. But when the scratch becomes less than 400 Angstroms, it looks polished to the human eye. This equates to 5,000 grit used to polish to that high luster. Try a car polishing compound--please, no wax--then, switch to Jeweler's rough. Use the white rouge for your marble. You'll find it sold at most autobody supply houses, or possibly Graingers.
If you do use a power tool for polishing, keep it under 8,000 RPMs.
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Please help - I've cut an arch into my wall to increase my view. For the ledge I installed a custom piece of crema mar fil marble. The painter dripped some paint onto the marble, and wiped it off with sometype of abrasive sponge. Now it has several small surface scratches and the appearance is dull. I need to remove the scratches and bring back the shine. I cannot take it to be refinished because it is built in. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.