How long does a Coffee Wood Marble floor last?
Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.
The figures, and where each one comes from
| What ages | What is done about it |
|---|---|
| The polish on a busy floor | Professional honing and re-polishing, usually every few years in a commercial building |
| Scratches in the surface | Polished out if shallow; a deeper one is a repair |
| Etching in a wet area | Repolished, or accepted as a patina |
| The stone itself | Not what limits the life of the floor |
Why it behaves the way it does
A wood-grain marble is chosen for places that look after it — a corridor that is swept, a lobby that is cleaned — and in those places the stone outlives the finish several times over. The number to plan for is the restoration interval, not the replacement interval.
What these figures are, and what they are not
We publish no service-life figure for a floor we have not installed. What we can say is which parts of the finish are consumable and which are not.
If you are specifying this
We have not published products against this question yet. Send us the process, thickness and quantity and we will quote it against what we can actually form, rather than against a catalogue.
A long time, if the finish is maintained. The stone is Mohs 3 and it will scratch, but the stone itself does not wear out in a building’s life — the polish does. In a hotel corridor the polish is normally restored rather than the floor replaced.
The figures
| What ages | What is done about it |
|---|---|
| The polish on a busy floor | Professional honing and re-polishing, usually every few years in a commercial building |
| Scratches in the surface | Polished out if shallow; a deeper one is a repair |
| Etching in a wet area | Repolished, or accepted as a patina |
| The stone itself | Not what limits the life of the floor |
Why
A wood-grain marble is chosen for places that look after it — a corridor that is swept, a lobby that is cleaned — and in those places the stone outlives the finish several times over. The number to plan for is the restoration interval, not the replacement interval.
What these figures are, and what they are not
We publish no service-life figure for a floor we have not installed. What we can say is which parts of the finish are consumable and which are not.