/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2715107
Hard to say, leathering texturizes the stone according to it's soft and hard minerals/veins. Ultimately any texture will mean it's hard to dry out/squeegee/clean, so I'd typically recommend avoiding a textured stone. Flamed is too rough imo, you'd get soap sitting in all the little holes. Picrel is a leathering diamond/brush (bristles are carbide infused).

>>2714943
>coping with bad stonework
About 5-10% of my work is either fixing someone's mistake or doing the finishing for an installer. It could take many forms, either mitre work, lippage removal (full levelling if a not so good installation), epoxy color matching, sealing and cleaning, final polishing because grouts marred the finish (usually black stone). Once an installer finds me or someone like me, they price my work into the project and convince their client to work with me directly.

In general though, poor workmanship is only handled by me for high value clients, your average homeowner is hiring tile setters and giving them marble, hoping for the best. I am not usually in their budget unfortunately. The most common and gut wrenching is when a bad installer skims on subfloor material or doesn't prep the material for installation, I've seen many many floors with numerous loose tiles, broken grout, cracks etc.

The worst was ~2000 square feet of beautiful marble tiles, they had mesh on the back to keep them stable, typically you grind it a bit with a stone and then install. ALL THE TILES DELAMINATED. I was called in, gave a ludicrous price but found a solution. I scraped the loose grout out, color matched 60-70 Quarts of liquid epoxy, poured it into the voids and bashed it with a rubber mallet until it seeped down. Once finished I re-grouted, ground the floor and excess epoxy and repolished it. 2 years later one tile popped. Worst week of my life (so far), you could see the fumes in the air when the front door was open, nobody was allowed in the home or to use tools, smoke, cook etc.