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Article: Stone floor maintenance: travertine: I recently received a call from a perplexed technician regarding a stone floor on which he was working. He indicated he had polished the floor with diamond abrasives, and that overall the floor had excellent gloss but, try as he might, he could not polish out the traffic lane in the entrance.(Hard Floor Maintenance Opportunities)
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- ICS Cleaning Specialist
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- May 1, 2008
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When I asked him to identify the floor, he said it looked like sandstone, but thought that it might be marble. At this point I was the one who was perplexed, so I agreed to meet him at the building and have a look at this challenging floor.
After entering the building and looking back across the lobby, it was evident there was a traffic pattern at the entrance. True, the floor was highly polished, but there were two subtle yet distinct paths that forked to each of the elevator banks. The traffic lanes did not appear eroded like normal traffic patterns; they just looked a little soiled. It didn't take long to identify the cause for the problem, and it began with ...