Very pitted granite! Help!

[whittle7]

Hi I am new here but hopefully you can help me with a problem I am having with our granite! We had our granite installed almost 2 years ago! I have never been happy with the finish on our granite. The people who put it in was a friend of a friend and gave us a discounted price so I am pretty sure we did not get a top of the line job done. The granite has very deep fissures throughout and also looks as though there is fingerprints on it when the sun hits it a certain way. They used Miracle 511 Impregnator to seal it. Do you have any suggestions as to how to fill in the fissured areas? The gloss is pretty much very hard to achieve ( Lot's of buffing with a soft cloth!) I am wondering how much bacteria is actually trapped in these fissures and pits in my granite! I am hoping there is a product that will actually fill in these areas to make my countertop more smooth. Please Help! Thanks, Kelly

[Mark D.]

How wide and deep are the fissures? When the light hits them do they look like spiderwebs? I need more info in order to recommend product(s) that will help you. Is there any way you could get it to show in a picture and post that up?

Mark

[faseeh]

Frankly at home you can not solve this problem.

It seems you have purchased a China Made Granite.

Your granite top need a machine polish by experts. I would like to suggest you to resell this to any granite top reseller or on ebay, and buy a new instead of this.

You can exchange your granite top at http://www.buystonesonline.com

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[Mark D.]

That's not necessarily true. If you have spiderweb microfissures you can treat them with Tenax Pectro and they will be invisible.

Glad to be of service,
Mark

[Kris Jorgensen]

The answer to this really depends on how open the fissures are.  As Mark said, pictures would be great.

If the fissures are open, then a penetrating epoxy could be used to fill them.  Once that cures a razor blade can be used to scrape the epoxy off the surface.  This is not a fun job, but I've done it before with a granite that had lots of pits in it.

If the fissures are micro fissures then the Pectro will work as Mark said.