This is a short one on the use of MB-12 polishing powder to pop the shine quickly and easily on a marble counter. This process can be done on most marble surfaces including polishing marble showers, tight areas on floors where floor machines can’t reach, as well as small touch-ups on polished marble surfaces.
I recommend this product for professional use and for ambitious homeowners that have the right tools and take responsibility if they end up needing to call a pro.
How it’s Done
You start with a small amount of MB12 marble polishing powder (a pinch) and squirt a few drops of water on the powder. Using a low-speed polisher and a white or hog’s hair pad (I prefer a white pad), start working the powder into the polishing area slowly. Work your marble counter polishing powder until it dries completely and keep buffing as the shine improves. The process should take just a few minutes. If it takes longer, you are using to much water. It should dry out almost immediately.
As you keep using your pad through multiple polishing steps with the MB12 marble polishing powder, the pad will load up and become caky and hard. This is good for you because you can use that pad after that with just a small amount of water to polish your marble counter. I save all of my pads in case I have a small touch-up on a marble or travertine floor that I have just polished. I like to use my Makita at low speed with my loaded pad. I squirt a small amount of water on the pad and blend the area to a perfect polish.
What to look out for
The best philosophy when using any wet-to-dry polish on a marble counter, shower, or floor is: less is more. By this, I mean that you should always use a small amount of material to polish your marble surface. Plan on polishing the area more than once. Whether you are polishing a large counter or behind a toilet, work your polish slowly and plan on polishing it a couple of times. This will prevent you from using too much marble polishing powder or too much water.
Some issues that occur when you try to overdo it are burning of the material, orange peel, streaks, spatter marks on already polished areas, and other issues related to acid reactions on marble and metals.
Check out the videos
The videos on this page are all related to the use of MB-12 polishing powder and other wet-to-dry polishing powders on marble and other surfaces. There are a lot of great nuggets of information shared in these videos. One such nugget is to always treat the center of your marble polishing pad as the area that is doing the work. So when you are polishing edges around sinks and the fronts on counters, you should hang your machine off the edge by about half. This will make certain that you have a perfectly polished marble counter across the entire surface.
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