Can You Tumble Granite

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Can you tumble granite.

Steve explains how to clean disinfect and maintain your granite countertops. If you don t have a vibratory tumbler don t worry simply tumble your rocks in a rotary tumbler for one week in the medium one week in fine and one week in txp polish. The truth about cleaning and disinfecting granite countertops. Rocks larger than about 1 1 4 inches in size are too big to tumble freely in such a small tumbler.

All of the materials tumbler grit and padding can be hard to find but some specialty shops may have these items. If they are large enough to be distracting you may want to fill them with clear epoxy. How to clean granite countertops. It s possible the granite has a few nicks or chips.

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. Just be sure that you have lots of small rocks or media to prevent the large rocks from crushing one another during the tumble. Add enough water to barely cover the rocks. 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.

Remove all of the material and stones from the barrel and repeat the cleaning procedures used after the coarse grit operation. This is followed by washing and then a stage of finer grits 120 220 then 400 600 mesh before the optional use of a pre polishing compound 1200 grit a washing cycle with detergent to remove any grit on the stones. Very easy do it yourself. Their inability to tumble freely will cause them to shape very slowly.

If not try buying from a catalog or other direct mail order business. A few simple steps and you can maintain your granite looking as new as when yo. All slabs are treated with stoneguard sealer that protects against food and beverage stains and are backed by a 15 year warranty. If a few stones need more grinding you can remove them from this batch and re tumble them later in another batch.