Do clean stone surfaces withstone soap or a mild detergent. Do completely rinse with clean water after washing and dry stone surfaces. Do blot up spills immediately; time enables them to sink in and become stains. Don't use cleaners that contain acids such as bathroom or grout cleaners or ...
Paint the mortar joints with grout sealer, using a small, round paintbrush. Wipe any sealer that smears or drips onto stones as it occurs with a damp sponge. The stones can be painted with stone sealer. Sealers protect against water, mineral, oil and grease stains. Cap the top of the po...
Pack the sand or stone dust into place with either an ice scraper or a mason's trowel like the one we used. Some joints will take more material than others. When all the joints are full, sweep any of the excess off the patio, then rinse the surface with a gentle spray of water...
To avoid the bad-builder syndrome I will describe below, once the tile is in position, if I see so much tile setting cement oozing out from behind the tile that it is filling the grout joints, I remove that excess. That makes filling the grout joints easy later. And when I prepare th...
During wet weather, the most frequent causes of UDs and SSOs are infiltration and inflow (I/I) into the collection system due to aging and deteriorating infrastructure. Infiltration is groundwater that enters the collection system through leaky pipes, faulty pipe joints, or defective manholes. ...