One, stone polishing surface waxing purpose

Now on sale in the market of tile and stone maintenance with wax sort is various, including the floor wax, oily water and half solid wax, stearic acid, solvent oil wax, solvent-based acrylic wax, etc., their basic characteristics is not the same, using the results are not the same as those in stone, but is to increase the purpose of using stone material on the surface of the polishing glossiness, hope to be able to make the stone light and bright, green.

Two, stone maintenance wax should pay attention to matters

(1) the wax water containing color materials may cause pollution of stone materials

Stone material is porous material, it is possible to absorb the color material contained in the wax water, causing the pollution of the stone surface.Accordingly, when choosing stone material to maintain to use wax, should use the wax water that adds color makings as far as possible, perhaps before using stone material affirming this stone material surface has carried on effective waterproof and prevent oil to conserve processing first, can conserve the surface of stone material adequately, make its have the ability that prevents pollution.

(ii) long-time waxing may cause stone surface production:

The phenomenon that produce yellow change, but use waxing to maintain to be able to defer the attrition of stone material in the area with large traffic volume the type of wax water on market is diversiform, brand is various, its characteristic and quality are for average consumer character, very difficult to understand clearly and use correctly.Accordingly, the case that wax water produces undesirable effect to stone material has heard.Part of the wax with unsaturated hydrocarbons, long-term exposure in the air will occur after the phenomenon of yellowing, causing the pollution of the stone surface.Polished surface wax water, therefore, used for stone material maintenance at the same time, should avoid the accumulated for a long time in stone material surface, its consumer before use to grasp the characteristics of wax water and have doubts, will want to consider using wax products, to the domestic research institutes to accelerate the oxidation or sun experiment, in order to understand whether it is suitable for use.Based on the above reasons, part of the theory points out that stone should not be waxed maintenance.However, another point of view is that wax maintenance, in addition to increasing the surface gloss effect, in the need to create a magnificent environment and traffic personnel frequent stone wear serious state of the area, such as hotel lobby, hall, corridor...Wax, can be taken into consideration to maintain project, on the one hand, can highlight the effect of polishing after using the magnificence, at the same time can also slow the rate of stone material by foot wear abrasion (on wax can provide slow the rate of material), in general, the above these regions due to the pedestrian and the frequency is too high to move goods, so the problem of stone material surface wax residue is not obvious, consumption is important to note that you should use what kind of wax, and maintenance interval time long.

Household laid stone, in part due to the traffic volume is not large, the abrasion of stone material is very limited, and domestic production of natural stone material, its surface gloss has achieved considerable level, so the home of stone material maintenance should focus on the maintenance of contamination on the surface, suggest to use stone curing agent (after using the effective fixed number of year is long, can keep the number of years) as a way to maintain and comply with mop and neutral detergent to implement the daily maintenance of the floor can be commonly, do not need to consider regular use wax processing.

Three, water wax may contain acid and alkali substances, should pay attention to the use of stone maintenance in the process except for special conditions.

In general, it is not recommended to touch the surface with an acidic or alkaline substance.Because part of the stone by adverse effects of acidic or alkaline substances will occur, for example, acid often leaves yellow granite and pyrite oxidation and causing phenomenon: acid decompose carbonated marble, thousands of erosion surface situation: alkali erosion of granite of feldspar and quartz mineral crystallization product grain, product of grain of stripping phenomenon.The wax or treating agent of water-based system, most often contains acid and alkali substance, sometimes the wax itself is not neutral, sometimes the auxiliary agent in the wax water contains acid and alkali (such as ammonia salt wetting agent that contains alkali).Accordingly, the proposal consumes before using stone material to maintain wax, should with wide use dipstick (general chemical raw material line can be bought) undertake a test to the wax water that USES, in order to confirm the wax water that USES is safe and avirulent.

Iv. Curing agent and wax are different chemical substances and should be avoided to be mixed

Wax can increase the gloss of the stone surface, and curing agent can effectively preserve the stone from pollution, so can the two be mixed to achieve a double effect?The answer is no, because it is often counterproductive.Wax and the mixture of curing agent and even the basic function of two kinds of medicament cannot achieve, main effect is resin curing agent class material, purpose is to generate the proper maintenance of stone material surface layer (which may be visible or invisible film), the key is to emphasize the function of waterproof and oil proof for a long period of time, or part of the emphasis on the increase, the purpose of color and wax is more to fill material, its main function is to filling-in stone material surface is uneven, to improve its luster, the use of the two materials are the most efficient condition is not the same, if its mix, likely the following several conditions:

One, when wax and osmotic curing agent is mixed, the mixture is still liquid when the wax will make the surface tension of the stone surface rise, the osmotic capacity of the curing agent becomes weak, the wax begins to coagulate and block the wool stoma, so that the curing agent can not penetrate into the stone.Therefore, this state and only use wax water maintenance is not much different.

2. When wax is mixed with the coating curing agent, the coating curing agent will usually form a glossy film on the stone surface. When mixed with wax, the film's characteristics will change, mechanical strength will become worse, and glossiness will decrease.Accordingly, the proposal should regard stone material maintenance processing and stone material waxing maintenance as two different things, the procedure that its USES should be stone material maintenance processing is before, waxing maintains after.Because the maintenance treatment of stone material is the basic maintenance behavior of stone material, so should have priority to be used before the installation of stone material, and stone material waxing maintenance is a daily maintenance behavior, should be in the stone material maintenance process is completed before further use.