Can You Tumble Granite

From the world s experts in stone.

Can you tumble granite.

Very easy do it yourself. Steve explains how to clean disinfect and maintain your granite countertops. All slabs are treated with stoneguard sealer that protects against food and beverage stains and are backed by a 15 year warranty. Their inability to tumble freely will cause them to shape very slowly.

The truth about cleaning and disinfecting granite countertops. Stonemark granite is exclusive to the home depot and is 100 natural granite. It s possible the granite has a few nicks or chips. The idea behind the first step is to take rough rock or stone and grind it tumble it down into a form which is indistinguishable in shape from the final product.

If they are large enough to be distracting you may want to fill them with clear epoxy. If your tumbler barrel holds less than two cups of water then you should be tumbling rocks that range between about 3 8 inch and 1 1 4 inches in size. Rocks larger than about 1 1 4 inches in size are too big to tumble freely in such a small tumbler. A few simple steps and you can maintain your granite looking as new as when yo.

Just be sure that you have lots of small rocks or media to prevent the large rocks from crushing one another during the tumble. Granite is soft though so it would tumble better without other kinds of rock i think but i ve read on here that it will polish nicely. Add enough water to barely cover the rocks. All of the materials tumbler grit and padding can be hard to find but some specialty shops may have these items.

Remove all of the material and stones from the barrel and repeat the cleaning procedures used after the coarse grit operation. If a few stones need more grinding you can remove them from this batch and re tumble them later in another batch. After mixing the two parts of the epoxy apply it carefully to the countertop let it set then sand. If not try buying from a catalog or other direct mail order business.