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Is Coffee Wood Marble durable enough for a busy floor?

The stone is durable and the finish is not, and a busy floor is a maintenance item rather than a material question. In a hotel corridor the polish is restored every few years; the slab underneath is the same slab in year twenty.
Rows of polished grey-brown marble slabs with straight wood-like grain laid flat on trestles across a large workshop floor, the surfaces wet and reflecting overhead lights
Slabs on the polishing line, which is where the finish that wears first is put on.
A large polished marble slab wrapped in film and strapped with green bands, standing upright on a wooden shipping frame
A banded slab, wrapped and ready to travel.

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 happens How it is dealt with
The polish wears in the traffic line Professional honing and re-polishing
Scratches appear Buffed if shallow, a repair if not
A spill sits too long A stain, or an etch if it was acid
The stone Changes very little over the life of the building

Why it behaves the way it does

The number that matters for a busy floor is the restoration interval and not a wear rating, and it is a budget line rather than a specification line. A client who knows the floor will be restored can choose a beautiful stone; a client who expects it never to be touched cannot.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We publish no wear rating for a floor we have not tested. What we can say is which parts of the surface 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.

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The stone is durable and the finish is not, and a busy floor is a maintenance item rather than a material question. In a hotel corridor the polish is restored every few years; the slab underneath is the same slab in year twenty.

The figures

What happens How it is dealt with
The polish wears in the traffic line Professional honing and re-polishing
Scratches appear Buffed if shallow, a repair if not
A spill sits too long A stain, or an etch if it was acid
The stone Changes very little over the life of the building

Why

The number that matters for a busy floor is the restoration interval and not a wear rating, and it is a budget line rather than a specification line. A client who knows the floor will be restored can choose a beautiful stone; a client who expects it never to be touched cannot.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We publish no wear rating for a floor we have not tested. What we can say is which parts of the surface are consumable and which are not.

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