Bizzare Question: can you use auto polish on Granite Worktops.

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I only ask, as living in a hard water area ... I noticed around the sink area of our black granite, there was a sort of limescale haze. Despite the wife fastidiously wiping it down.

a call to the guys who installed it, resulted in an estimate of £300 to come and give it a quick polish.
in the end I used the trick of rubbing it with 0000 wire wool daubed with a good blob of Lithofin’s non abraisive polish creme.

Took about 3 hours to make it look like new. :(:(

then I thought I have a variable speed 1400W angle grinder and a cheapo M14 backing pad.
hmmm could you just stick on a cheap ebay microfibre pad and machine polish it?
Reckon you could Do that area in 15 mins.

Looking for similar to car compounds ... MB 20 Granite polish compound is $85!
i just wondered would 3Ms Yellow Extra fine polish do the same thing?

Note there are no scratches , its just a sort of final gloss up polish needed. (I know you need diamond abrasive pads to remove scratches in granite)

anyone tried it?

I am just not brave (or stupid) enough to risk putting a nice dull glaze in the middle of “her” worktop ... just dont fancy finding a bottle of paint stripper dumped on the roof of my S Class Coupe!
 
Yes you can...it would probably remove the water spots, not nearly aggressive enough to repair any defects in the granite.
I would be afraid of using an aggressive compound. I've watched them put a gloss on cut pieces. I think they finish out with 600 grit wet sanding.
You might be better off using a water spot remover more frequently than letting it get so bad you need to compound/polish it off.
 
•Let’s see:
-You “used the trick of rubbing it with
0000 wire wool daubed with a good
blob of Lithofin’s non abraisive polish
creme”... and made it look like new.


With that in mind:
Unless you would intentionally buff in an
unorthodox/(destructive) manner...I don’t
see how by just using 3Ms Yellow Extra fine
polish—coupled with a variable speed grinder
and buffing pads—could possibly be a more
aggressive approach than the one with which
you previously were successful.


JMO

Bob
 
FUNX650 said:
•Let’s see:
-You “used the trick of rubbing it with
0000 wire wool daubed with a good
blob of Lithofin’s non abraisive polish
creme”... and made it look like new.


With that in mind:
Unless you would intentionally buff in an
unorthodox/(destructive) manner...I don’t
see how by just using 3Ms Yellow Extra fine
polish—coupled with a variable speed grinder
and buffing pads—could possibly be a more
aggressive approach than the one with which
you previously were successful.


JMO

Bob
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I just wondered if it would put a deeper shine on it, and then use it as a maintenance routine.

I dont know how 0000 wire wool equates to polish or even 5000 grit .
But I was surprised it gleamed after doing it. But the trial patch worked.
Maybe all it did was remove the limescale bloom and reveal the original polished surface
 
I've buffed my granite with good results. I use my DA and usually a cleaner wax and they are left gleaming. For tough water spots you may want to try something a bit more aggressive. I didn't have any tough spots. I polish and wax about every hard surface in my home. Yes I'm insane, when my wife caught me waxing the toilet I thought the relationship may be over but we survived it.

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Cleankat said:
I've buffed my granite with good results. I use my DA and usually a cleaner wax and they are left gleaming. For tough water spots you may want to try something a bit more aggressive. I didn't have any tough spots. I polish and wax about every hard surface in my home. Yes I'm insane, when my wife caught me waxing the toilet I thought the relationship may be over but we survived it.

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Now that's hilarious

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