@@de0509 Bro. We use a fresh blade on the bottom inch of the door and a little around the edges. I'd love to see how long this would take you to get these results with blades & no damage. I have lots of videos using blades, they're awesome, just not for doing entire glass doors. I used to do them that way 15 years ago before I actually learned how to polish with a machine.

@@jessiecee6564 I like MBSTONECARE'S line of Natural Stone Care cleaners. Easy Oxy, Easy Scrub, MB-5, MB-9 etc.

It's a 3M 4100 Supershine pad....mix lutefisk with peroxide-soda (Norwegian trick). On a serious note Mr. Hardwater Powder that you mix into a paste works well, MBStoneCare's "Easy Scrub" works well, "nothings better"-hard water spot remover works well, Glass Renu Cerium Oxide works well. I'm not in the business of selling the products, in my neck of the woods (Bainbridge Island-Gig Harbor etc.) hard water mineral deposits are really tough to remove (the typically pinterest hacks of vinegar, dryer sheets, acids, etc. kind of just laugh at people's efforts. This video is more of a "it's possible and here's how we do it so please hire us so we can feed our kids" than it is a training video for d.i.y.ers. Mr. Hardwater's channel has the best videos and products for that route in my opinion. I've spent thousands of dollars on his products through the years but I've probably saved over a million dollars in shower glass over the last 15 years of polishing and sealing hundreds of shower glass doors every year.

Gotta "curl" the blade, start with a fresh blade and don't flip it. Most people don't cut themselves shaving and if they do it's small. Same thing here. If it's scratching that means the blade is catching & you can feel it. This process is still way faster...as Thomas Sowell says "there are no solutions only trade offs"

There's a system for refinishing engineered stone called Quartz Renew. The process is similar to refinish real stone (honing starting with lower grits and working up to desired sheen) I'm not an expert on Quartz by any means.

There's a chance you just cleaned an area via the vinegar and you removed a layer of build up. I'd that's the case then deep cleaning everything with a product like MB StoneCare's "Easy Scrub" would do the trick. That would be worth trying 1st. (Before attempting to refinish)

600 rpm (the slowest setting on both this Makita 9237c & the Dewalt machines we use) continuous. We don't speed up. Just keep going at 600 until pad has burnished everything off. Sometimes it takes multiple applications (when really really bad) However most areas don't have nearly this bad of mineral content in their water so not as difficult to remove.

That's a big MAYBE. There are rust removers that you can try, I believe 1 is called f9.

Glass polish

Do you think I left it like this? :) This was just a demonstration before honing all of the marble with diamond resin abrasives.

@@CleanGroutNW - 180 Grit - 220 Grit - nice, even, consistent finish. I have serviced tops in the past, and I can always tell it has been acid etched by the roughness of the finish. Plus, never use a coating - big mistake - it scathes easily, and over time it starts to peel or chip - when moisture gets under coating - there is a whitish haze. The worse part is removing a coating - I will not touch a stone with a coating - too messy to remove.

Porcelain tile is night and day easier to maintain on a shower floor. Porcelain (& most ceramics) are not harmed by acids which is what is preferred to be used for calcium or scale build up cleaning/removal.

@@CleanGroutNW so it is good durable tile for shower n bathroom floor *

@@CleanGroutNW I thought limestone was durable under water 💧 conditions, soap 🧼 etc?

@@jesusm2159 I personally would never install Limestone on the lower portion of a shower or floor. As a deco tile higher up then maybe...but there are porcelains that mimic limestone very well nowadays. It's like asking for trouble

@@jesusm2159 I've seen quite a few Limestone showers with spaling....where the stone is literally eroding and falling apart. I've never seen porcelain do that.

Stone specific cleaners (pH neutral or alkaline)

Hi Chrispy M !!! May I please know which boat cleaner you used ?

Around 1500 psi at the machine, I think this was about a 200 foot hose run. Tap water temperature. Machine is a Prochem Power Vac II in a GMC Savana 3500.

The purpose of having a niche is so that you don't have to have a soap dish protruding out into the shower taking up space.

@@CleanGroutNW I am very familiar with what a nice is and they are generally filled with shampoo bottles ,I absolutely love the solo soap dish ,,and using the protruding into shower is a lame argument ,,its not as deep as the valve ,,I think you are just looking for things to beach about

@@billhamilton7524 I've been installing tile for 20+ years and have built a lot of niches and installed soap dishes. There's nothing wrong with soap dishes. It is however very rare to see a soap dish directly under a niche. If you like the look then go for it. Myself and most others think that it's hideous and pointless.

@@CleanGroutNW Whatever you say boss

@@The_Invisible_SelfGood one , Let me guess your sleeping with NTSC,,

It's very difficult to get a uniform honed look via etching. It is also dangerous to spread large amounts of acid, which can cause more harm than the good you're after. That being said I have seen matble floors that vinegar has been used repeatedly for years and the floors have looked uniform in sheen, and filthy since vinegar is a terrible stone cleaner. (Alkaline or pH neutral work much better) Honing a floor the correct way is not very difficult with a floor machine and diamond resin abrasives and honing powder.

@@CleanGroutNW I gotta get some honing powered I’ve been honing for 2 yrs now with just water I was thinking since we in different times it would be a better a better choice to try a acid that can give a flat etch

I don't understand what you are asking exactly. The drain is higher than the floor. If it wasn't then the water would be draining.

Granite doesn't etch like marble does. It takes a significantly lower acid (like battery acid) to damage granite, whereas marble will etch with just lemon juice.

A biodegradable & septic/sewer safe glass polish. I don't tell anyone how it's made and get asked around 500 times per year (literally). We don't sell the product just the service. The most similar product that I have found that I can share is Stone Pro Stone Scrub followed by Mr. Hardwater powder. Both work great just take longer with more splatter (runnier).

Yes I buy the big floor machine pads. Take the pad driver off of the machine and use that as a template. Use a fresh utility knife razor blade to cut around. We cut up a bunch and have a spot in the van for them. We cut 3 inch, 4 inch, and 5 inch circles and use the scraps to polish the fixtures and edges, metal tracking, and edges where the machine cannot get to.

We've seen worse as well but this is definitely a fail. We don't always get permission to record and post our findings.

Better than a straw

We just cleaned it, sealed it, & re-grouted the changes of plane (corners) with epoxy grout. They didn't want to spend the thousands of dollar$ on a rebuild yet.

I don't but my friend Ted McFadden has one removing a big scratch out of granite. It's the same process with marble only the diamond resin abrasives are different. If you have honed marble then 80 grit, 120, 220 sandpaper would probably do the trick. Honed is much more forgiving than polished and can be fixed with a lot less steps/grits.

I think you will have plenty of scratches in marble using a razor similarly in this video on marble floor.

@@tonymanero5544 "Curl" the blade, don't flip over and then change blade out when it starts to catch. Doing this properly will not scratch. Just like how shaving your face with a razor won't cut....if you do it correctly.

@@CleanGroutNW I use shower gel to shower but I can still rough the slightly rough surfaces on the marble surface. How can I get rid of it easily.

@@vern0018 mbstonecare MB3 should do the trick. Easy Oxy should do the trick. There's probably 100 different (non acidic) cleaners that should remove light soap scum with proper dwell time and a white pad like a 3m 4100 supershine pad (instead of a brush but soft bristle brushes are fine for marble, even polished marble). MB-3 is formulated specifically for removing soap scum without marble and is guaranteed not to damage stone.

How do you mix it? 50/50? Just pure white vinegar from grocery store? I've done the razor blade to mine, but even that takes forever. I've used other cleaning chemicals with magic eraser but the eraser falls apart.

I just tell am, 'I was recommended for a reason. If you don't like it I am ok with that. Good luck."

Many years ago I was looking at a shower tile cleaning job with a really bad install and I was making comments about how bad it was...the homeowner said "I installed it, yes I could have done better"...hahaha. AWKWARD. I think a lot of the really bad ones are homeowner jobs but they don't admit it was them...I've had a lot of homeowners say (when I've asked them if they had it installed or if it was in the house when they bought it) that it was a "friend" who said they'd done tile before. I think a decent percentage of the time it was actually them but they're too embarrassed to say anything. It looks a lot easier than it is.

@@CleanGroutNW Tiling isn't hard, I think most people are just useless these days lol!! Most of homeowners can't even change the oil in their car, and that's about as straightforward as it gets with no variables or customization needed. I am working with a buddy of mine in his new house who's never laid a tile in his life, and I will document the process. I think he will do well with the right guidance and planning/tools.

If you use a fresh blade and "curl" the blade it will not scratch. If you were to flip the blade over and push then yes it will dig in and scratch.

Go to work on a full stomach. A plate full of lutefisk in the morning so once we're working we just need a little bit of snacking to get through the day and not eat all of the product. Hope this helps.

@@CleanGroutNW I'll give that a shot, thank you

Nice to hear Tim, thank you for the comment. Hope you get that deposit back.

3M 4100 Supershine pad, Makita 9237 C, 5 inch hook in loop backer, glass polishing paste.