You get floors that look the way they did when your house was built. Not “better than before”—actually original. That matters in Lawrence, where so many homes date back to the early 1900s and feature marble you can’t buy anymore.
Restoration costs between $5 and $15 per square foot. Replacement runs $70 to $190. You’re not just saving money—you’re keeping the character that makes your home worth what it is.
And you’re done worrying about it for the next 10 to 15 years. Professional restoration lasts. The marble itself lasts forever if you treat it right. What wears out is the finish, the sealer, the polish—and those we handle.
High Definition Marble Restoration Inc has worked on historic floors across Nassau and Suffolk Counties for over 25 years. The owner oversees every job personally. That’s not a marketing line—it’s how we operate.
Lawrence has some of the most beautiful old homes on Long Island. Victorian shingles, prewar estates, properties that have been standing since before the Revolution. A lot of them have original marble. We’ve seen what happens when someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing tries to “clean” or “restore” it. It’s not pretty.
We were featured in the New York Times back in 2001. We’ve been the exclusive stone care provider for the Garden City Hotel for over 16 years. We don’t take shortcuts, and we don’t hand your floor off to a crew we’ve never met.
First, we come out and look at your floors. Not over the phone—in person. We need to see the stone, the damage, the wear patterns. Every floor is different, especially the old ones.
Then we give you a price. Upfront. Transparent. No surprises later. If the floor needs grinding, honing, polishing, sealing—we tell you exactly what’s involved and what it costs.
Once we start, we mask everything off and keep the space clean. Dust control matters. So does protecting your furniture, your walls, your baseboards. We treat the house like it’s ours.
The actual work depends on the condition. Minor polishing might take a day. Full restoration—grinding out scratches, repairing cracks, bringing back the original finish—takes longer. But when we’re done, you’ll see the floor the way it looked a hundred years ago.
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We handle marble floors, countertops, bathroom walls, stairs, tub decks—anywhere you’ve got natural stone that needs work. We also do concrete restoration and polishing now, which matters if you’ve got a basement or garage floor you want to bring up to standard.
Lawrence sits right on the coast. Salt air, humidity, hard water—it all takes a toll on marble. Add in decades of foot traffic, old sealers that have broken down, cleaning products that weren’t meant for stone, and you’ve got floors that look tired. Dull. Scratched. Stained.
But the stone itself is usually fine. That’s the thing people don’t realize. Marble doesn’t wear out—it just needs the right care. We grind out the damage, hone the surface smooth, polish it back to a shine, and seal it properly. The floor you thought was ruined? It’s not. It just needed someone who knows how to fix it.
In a market where original details drive property value, keeping your marble intact makes financial sense. Buyers pay more for authenticity. They pay less when they see you’ve ripped out the original materials.
Restoration typically runs between $5 and $15 per square foot, depending on how bad the damage is. Minor polishing—just bringing back the shine—might cost $3 to $7 per square foot. Full restoration, where we’re grinding, honing, repairing cracks, and resealing, costs more.
Compare that to replacement. New marble installation runs $70 to $190 per square foot. And that’s assuming you can even find marble that matches what you’ve got, which is unlikely if your floors are 50, 75, 100 years old.
We give you a price before we start. No guessing. No “we’ll see when we get in there.” We look at the floor, we tell you what it needs, and we tell you what it costs.
Yes. In fact, that’s our specialty. The older the floor, the more we want to work on it.
Historic marble has challenges you don’t see in modern installations. Settling cracks. Outdated sealers. Wear patterns from a century of use. Sometimes the stone itself is a type you can’t get anymore—quarries close, materials change. But the marble is almost always salvageable.
We’ve restored floors in Lawrence homes that date back to the early 1900s. Floors that have been walked on by generations of families. The stone doesn’t give out—it just needs someone who understands how to work with old materials. That’s what we do. We bring them back to the way they looked when they were first installed, and we make sure they last another hundred years.
Professional restoration typically lasts 10 to 15 years in a residential setting. Sometimes longer, depending on traffic and how well you maintain it.
The marble itself doesn’t wear out. What breaks down over time is the sealer, the polish, the protective finish. When that happens, the stone gets dull, it stains more easily, it’s harder to clean. That’s when you call us back.
But 10 to 15 years is a long time. Compare that to basic cleaning services, which might make your floors look better for a few months before the shine fades again. Real restoration fixes the problem at the surface level. You’re not covering anything up—you’re actually repairing and refinishing the stone.
Polishing is what you do when the floor is in decent shape but has lost its shine. We use progressively finer abrasives to smooth the surface and bring back the gloss. It’s less invasive, faster, and costs less.
Restoration is what you need when the floor has real damage. Scratches, etching, cracks, stains that have soaked in. We start by grinding the surface to remove the damaged layer, then hone it smooth, then polish it to the finish you want. We also repair cracks, replace broken pieces if needed, and reseal everything.
If your floor just looks dull, polishing might be enough. If it looks beat up—scratched, stained, worn down in the traffic areas—you need restoration. We’ll tell you which one makes sense when we see it.
Absolutely. Bathrooms are one of the most common places we work. Marble in bathrooms takes a beating—hard water, soap scum, cleaning products that aren’t meant for stone. Over time, it etches, dulls, stains.
We restore marble floors, shower walls, tub surrounds, vanity tops—all of it. The process is the same: assess the damage, grind or hone as needed, polish, seal. Bathrooms just require more attention to detail because the stone is exposed to moisture constantly.
A lot of Lawrence homes have original marble bathrooms with onyx accents, handmade details, materials you can’t replace. Restoration keeps that intact. You don’t have to gut the bathroom and start over. You just need someone who knows how to bring the stone back to life.
Because replacement costs 5 to 10 times more than restoration, and you lose the original character of your home in the process.
If your house was built in the early 1900s and still has its original marble, that’s rare. That’s valuable. Buyers looking at historic homes in Lawrence want authenticity. They want original details. When you rip out the marble and put in something new, you’re taking away one of the things that makes your house special.
Restoration saves you money and keeps the floor that belongs in your home. Once original materials are gone, they’re gone forever. We’ve seen too many beautiful old floors end up in a dumpster because someone didn’t know they could be saved. Almost always, they can.
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