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Covina's marble polishing by Eddie Evans as scheduled or as needed. Prices reflect working families and budgeting businesses' marble polishing needs and more. I'm somewhat lower priced because I do my own polishing, not employees. But readers must not get the idea that my skills, abilities, and knowledge come cheap with my equipment and chemicals. I get paid enough to make a decent profit. There's no point to this work, otherwise, but one.

The one point beyond profit comes within the idea of "art." It's not marble polishing as an art-for-art's sake. It's an enjoyment that comes with watching a dull marble floor or countertop become an enhanced natural stone; colors and marble's natural history come to light as marble polishing reveals these natural wonders. This one outcome creates an unpaid perk for me. I call it "art work" in the form of marble polishing.

There's more for me in marble polishing. Marble polishing gets me out into the world and away from my computer. It's easy becoming addicted to software programs and a computer's powers for enhancing thinking. Getting out and helping others with their marble floor maintenance and polishing needs offers me an adventure.

So I do marble polishing throughout Orange County and Los Angeles County because I need work and an exit from sedentary practices. I also need a fair return for my time and investment. The work and its outcome create a genuine sense of satisfaction for me. What else might a person want from life than a rewarding business, employment revealing beauty, and knowing they get to do it all over again in a day or so?

My Covina marble polishing clients also need their marble cleaned and maintained at regular intervals (maintenance). They get what they want. I get what I want. And we both enjoy their marble floors.

So it's to my business interests to meet my needs and my clients' needs. So many of my clients have others services, like landscapers, window cleaners, and car washing services; they schedule my marble cleaning and polishing in the same way.

Marble Polishing Appointments

I polish and seal by appointment throughout Orange County and Los Angeles County. I've polished many marble floors and offer flexible hours. Because I live in Cypress I prefer to travel to West Orange County and East Los Angeles County during traffic congestion if I must travel at all. When asked to begin a marble polishing service in early hours, distance does not seem so important. Covina becomes closeer as the wee hours become closer. For me, I nap and read before showing up for marble polishing early. Fell free to call at any time for a quote or to arrange for an on-site assessment (free).

Most often, it takes only a few minutes to make an appointment for marble polishing. However, you may not get an appointment any time soon, depending upon my polishing schedule. Some of my marble polishing tasks take more than one or two days. Still, I do manage to keep going and will not take a day off so long as my schedule for polishing extends beyond three weeks. Some of my scheduled stops take little time. In these cases, clients have their marble polished "whether it needs it or not" because of their desire to present a highly polished shine at all times. In these cases I've been known to do three marble polishing jobs in one long day. Usually, you can expect about a three week wait before I can polish for you. Unless someone changes heir appointment.

Unscheduled Polishing

It never hurts to call and ask if I can fit your polishing into my schedule for the next day or so. If there's no hope of getting your floor polished any time soon, like within a week, I'll let you know. Usually when my schedule is full for a month or two, I can squeeze a couple floor polishing jobs in. These I do at odd hours.

Sometimes making an appointment for marble polishing may lead to breaking your appointment; in these cases life goes on and I simply move others forward. At the worse, I take a day or two off. You can reschedule if you care. I do not mind.

Marble Restoration - Grinding and Honing

Although I do not usually care to include grinding and honing in my marble polishing services, I will do so given the incentive. I need latitude, too, for restoration work. I like to take my time. I have come to this business decision because I have no real interest in grinding and honing any longer, but I am flexible. In any case, grinding and honing marble takes time, it makes a mess, and it costs me a lot of money for diamond pads.

I use water when grinding and honing marble floors and counter tops. This creates a mess. It takes time to clean and work at the same time. I must dispose of marble's slurry. So expect marble restoration work to costs some real money because of my time and the price of marble restoration tools and equipment.

Marble Polishing for Covina

Today's technology allows for much faster marble polishing than at any time in the last two thousand years. Ancient Greeks and Romans used crushed sand, salt, and various fibers to polish marble. Today I use diamond pads, polishing powders, and chemicals. Knowing when and where to apply appropriate abrasives and techniques becomes the mark of a true marble polisher.

Covina's marble floor polishing, like marble polishing anywhere, requires a process of steps. Anything else fails to return marble floors to their best shine. Perhaps a floor needs polishing and little else. Know where to begin, which diamond-pad to use, and little details like revolutions per minute (RPM) return floors to their best luster. This requires skills, knowledge, and abilities learned by practice and observation.

Often a floor requires grinding when first installed or after a catastrophic incident in a home or business. An entire marble polishing process begins with grinding to remove lipage. Removing lipage allows for easier maintenance. By grinding, marble floors become flatter and reflect their one piece illusion, a monolithic image. Important too, grinding removes excessive grout from grout lines.

Every inch of marble floor or counter top receives the same expert care and service. Much like a manicure for your nails (calcium), your marble (calcite and/or dolomite) tiles have a potential for a unique and extraordinary shine and beauty. Because every inch of marble possesses a unique mix of chemical mixes it becomes a mark of beauty when refined, polished. Somehow pressed together over many years with great force, it becomes a unique mass of metamorphic rock akin to surrounding stone with similar qualities and differences.

Like a finger-print revealed by fingerprint dust, marble polishing reveals every square inch of marble stone has a uniqueness unlike any other square inch. Marble's uniqueness arises from its chemistry; marble's part in geological processes accounts for its compression below mountains over eons. Eddie Evans's polishing reveals the outcome of these incredible forces. They also have more than a sign of compression forces, they have their beauty and hygienic value.

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I enjoy bringing out marble's many qualities. Sometimes these qualities create a bit of confusion by their uniqueness. Becoming expert at identifying natural marble takes time, and marble sometimes throws us a curve with its distinct veins, swirls and bands. Sometimes when I count on these tell-tale signs of a marble stone, I find veins adding to their exotic beauty as light veins meander to-and-fro, showing the compaction of quartz and feldspar in their ancient compositions.

My job becomes much like manicuring your floor, bringing out these unique qualities, more ancient than the great stone pyramids. Sure I may need to grind, hone, and polish; yet I do so with the same care and concern a manicurist would use with your hands. It may seem odd that marble polishing uses similar principals today that were used in the age of the Pharos; yet, the similarities remind us that I share a craft with marble polishers accustomed to using various grits of sand for marble polishing two thousand years ago.

Marble work in Covina resembles the same or similar methods used hundreds of years ago for marble polishing. Although marble polishing's principals remain the same, it's technological innovation that has brought about mass produced and mass maintenance of marble floors. Technology made marble polishing a more democratically experienced practice for all. It seems odd that I remain so much like the earliest marble polishers in my methods and outcomes. Gleefully, I can add, my clients live with beautiful marble floors surpassing that of kings and queens' marble floors.

So I do have a long heritage, an ancient craft that I take great delight in sharing. I glory in my craft, a craft producing works of art from newly installed or re-polished marble. Redundantly, I say that "I enjoy calling out marble's natural beauty, hidden by nature's geological processes eons ago." I work at staying abreast of technological changes. I focus on staying informed of industry trends and technological improvements. I do my best to bring out those hidden delights in every marble tile's potential.

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Marble Floor Maintenance For Covina

Maintenance for a marble floor means paying some attention to who comes through your doors, what's between their shoes' soles and your marble floors. So keeping marble polished requires some forethought, and it's best not to ignore your floors' polished shine; yet it would be wrong to give the impression that this metamorphic stone blemishes easy, because it does not. With that said, beware of acids. Acids will take away your floor's homogenous, monolithic shine rather quickly. In other words, if you must have lemon aid, try not to spill any on your marble floor. And if you do, call me and I can help with a quick shine. That's what I'm about. Your small floor polishing needs have my utmost attention, too. I'll find a way to schedule you in to my regular Covina maintenance routes as soon as possible. (return) Before forget, I usually add a sealer to your marble just in case you do spill lemon aid.

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Facts About Marble Polishing

You might want to know a tiny bit more about your marble floor. Your marble has a respectable hardness when it comes to all of Earth's minerals; it comes in about the middle, not too hard and not too soft. Of course, some people prefer hard and others prefer more soft; it's a matter of what an individual feels most suits their aesthetic and practical needs. Marble's right there on both counts. Besides, I seal after marble polishing to help protect your floor's ageless beauty.

Now, when I grind to begin my marble polishing work for restoration or uneven installation, I find new, delightful colors and shines as I remove layers of marble.

I never, ever expect to duplicate a manufacture's polished shine, but I do expect to match such shines. I do unveil in my stone polishing projects surprises many families new to marble floors find both appealing and wondrous. Some have shades of red where before there were white, black, brown, green, or red shades. Emerging red reflects new cleavages, new mineral breaks and fractures, all reflecting a room's light in a new, warm shade. Red reflects a marble's iron content.

There's nothing like grinding marble to reveal iron pressed into metamorphic stone so long ago. As noted above, every inch carries its own finger-print-like uniqueness. There's never a need to worry about any of your Covina neighbors having a duplicate design, that's for sure.

Expect my honing to sharpen new, emerging colors as I bring out your marble floor's best qualities. Sometimes a slight white, rose pink, violet or smoking gray appears with a vitreous to waxy luster. Because these unique minerals have only a small makeup in any one marble tile, their appearance creates a stunning relief against your marble floor's overall color and shades.

Whatever marble floor polishing service I provide, it's guaranteed. I've lived in Orange County for over thirty years, one mile East of Los Angeles County's Coyote Creek. I expect to continue Covina marble floor polishing services for another thirty years.

Eddie Evans

Evans Marble Polishing