Diamond polishing pads for quartz and engineered stone - TilersForums.com

[Concrete guy]

Second new product of the week.

Diamond polishing pads specifically formulated for quartz and other hard man made engineered stone. Wet use only.

Quartz is not as easy to polish as marble or granite and as such it's had to have it's own pads produced especially for it.

It solves that trim problem if you've got a quartz wall tile job as this pad set will enable you to polish up the edge to the same spec as the manufacturer.

Wet only though, so you're going to have to have a polishing machine that's water fed or can cope with getting splashed.

 

[Spud]

how much per set Alan ?

 

[DHTiling]

I desperately need some new dry pads...






















p.s these are diamond pads and not tena ladies before the P takers jump in :lol:

 

[Concrete guy]

how much per set Alan ?

£103.32 inc vat + P&P.

We can manufacture these in a variety of grades, because this is such a specialist product and is likely to be Pro use only we went for super premium which is as good as it gets, but it does come with a price tag.

 

[Concrete guy]

I desperately need some new dry pads...

What products are you polishing mostly David?

 

[DHTiling]

What products are you polishing mostly David?

travs/marbles etc from honed finish through to polished on exposed edges etc.. or finishing bullnosed edges.. i got some from hongkong about 3 yr back but they tend to leave residue on the higher grits..


So looking at better face quality.

 

[Concrete guy]

travs/marbles etc from honed finish through to polished on exposed edges etc.. or finishing bullnosed edges.. i got some from hongkong about 3 yr back but they tend to leave residue on the higher grits..


So looking at better face quality.

Honestly, you're better off going with silicone carbide pads for both of those materials. There really is little value in diamond pads for sedimentary stones and even some of the softer metamorphic ones such as lighter marbles.

One of the forum members here has a set of our dry's which he's used extensively polishing crema marfil 20mm bullnoses, but they took some time to bed in and suffered resin bleed for a while. Now bedded they work beautifully.

So unless you're doing 100's of linear M's of polishing a week, silicone carbide is the way to go. That market is very well catered for and not something we've found worth competing in.

My regular mason customers still used Silicone carbide pads on marble by default.

 

[DHTiling]

Honestly, you're better off going with silicone carbide pads for both of those materials. There really is little value in diamond pads for sedimentary stones and even some of the softer metamorphic ones such as lighter marbles.

One of the forum members here has a set of our dry's which he's used extensively polishing crema marfil 20mm bullnoses, but they took some time to bed in and suffered resin bleed for a while. Now bedded they work beautifully.

So unless you're doing 100's of linear M's of polishing a week, silicone carbide is the way to go. That market is very well catered for and not something we've found worth competing in.

My regular mason customers still used Silicone carbide pads on marble by default.

I have looked at those pads... there is a supplier very close to me ( Harbro ) but he is expensive but a few miles extra i can go to National masonry supplies in hamsterly...

 

[Concrete guy]

I have looked at those pads... there is a supplier very close to me ( Harbro ) but he is expensive but a few miles extra i can go to National masonry supplies in hamsterly...

Yup, two of the well known mason suppliers.

Take a look at Sait abrasives also - pretty good stuff and may supply you directly.

 

[DHTiling]

Harbro seem to have updated the site and look like better prices.. the paper discs will suit me better as they sell them with higher grits than the other silica carbide ones..


ABRASIVES SILICON CARBIDE DISCS VELCRO PAPER DISCS


will check with NMS what they charge..

 

[Concrete guy]

You won't go far wrong with Hermes pads.

 

[Andy Allen]

get them for free dave...:lol:

 

[DHTiling]

I wish...

 

[hillhead]

I get Hermes free
ATS's diamond pads I have are working well now and I have even polished white quartz with them.
The Hermes work well for me too.

 

[Ian]

Anyone got a link for the Hermes please.