You’re not looking at dull, scratched marble anymore. The stone has depth again. Light reflects off the surface the way it did when the floor was first installed decades ago.
Your maintenance costs drop because restored marble is easier to clean and stays cleaner longer. You’re not burning through cleaning products trying to make damaged stone look presentable. The floor actually responds to regular care now.
If you’re selling, buyers notice. Original marble in good condition adds 3-5% to your property value in Roosevelt’s historic home market. If you’re staying, you’ve got a floor that matches the quality of everything else you’ve invested in. Either way, you’re done worrying about it.
We’ve been restoring historic floors since 1998. We’re owner-operated, which means you’re getting 25+ years of hands-on expertise on your project, not a crew that learned last month.
Roosevelt’s housing stock is over 80% pre-1970, with nearly a third built before 1939. That’s our specialty. The older and more complicated your floor, the better we are at bringing it back. We’ve worked throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties on floors that other contractors wouldn’t touch.
The New York Times featured our work in 2001 because we were doing something most companies couldn’t figure out. That hasn’t changed. We’re still the ones you call when the floor matters and the stakes are high.
We start with an assessment of what’s actually wrong. Scratches, etching, lippage, staining—they all require different approaches. You get a free quote that explains what we’re fixing and why.
Once we’re on site, we mask and protect everything that’s not the floor. Then we go to work with the right tools and techniques for your specific stone and damage level. For most marble restoration and polishing jobs, we’re talking about honing out the damage, refining the surface, and polishing it back to the original finish.
The whole process usually takes less than two days. You’re not dealing with weeks of disruption. When we’re done, we clean up completely, and you’ve got a floor that looks like it should. We walk you through basic marble floor care so you can keep it that way.
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You’re getting a full restoration, not just a cleaning. We handle marble repair for chips and cracks, lippage correction when tiles are uneven, stain removal, scratch and etch removal, honing, and polishing to the finish level your floor was designed to have.
This applies to all your marble surfaces—floors, bathroom floors, countertops, walls, whatever needs work. We also restore other natural stone and have added concrete polishing and restoration for clients who need that capability.
In Roosevelt, where so many homes have original marble from the 1940s-1960s building boom, we’re often working with materials that were installed 60-80 years ago. These floors were built to last, but they need someone who understands what they looked like originally and how to get them back there. Most marble restoration companies don’t have that knowledge. Most cleaning companies definitely don’t. We do, and it shows in the result.
If regular cleaning isn’t working anymore, you’re looking at damage, not dirt. Marble that’s been etched by acidic cleaners, scratched by foot traffic, or worn down by harsh chemicals won’t respond to more cleaning. You’ll just waste time and money.
Here’s the test: if your marble looks dull, feels rough, or shows visible scratches and you’ve already tried proper cleaning products, the surface is damaged. Restoration removes that damaged layer and brings you back to sound stone. Cleaning is maintenance. Restoration is repair.
Most people in Roosevelt with historic marble have been cleaning for years while the floor gets worse. That’s because the damage is below the surface level that cleaning can reach. Once you restore it, then cleaning works again.
Yes. This is most of what we do. Cleaning companies and building maintenance crews often use acidic or highly abrasive products that etch and scratch marble. Once that happens, the stone loses its finish and starts looking progressively worse.
We remove the damaged layer through honing, then polish the marble back to its original finish. How deep we need to go depends on how bad the damage is. Surface etching is quick to fix. Deep scratches take more work.
The good news is that marble is thick enough to handle this process multiple times over its life. Your 80-year-old floor in Roosevelt has plenty of material left. We’re not thinning it to a point where it becomes a problem. We’re just taking off enough to get past the damage.
Most residential marble restoration projects take less than two days. Larger spaces or floors with severe damage might take longer, but we’ll tell you the timeline upfront when we quote the job.
During the work, that room or area is off-limits. We’re running equipment, and there’s dust control involved even though we use proper masking and containment. You can be in the rest of your house without issue.
When we’re finished, we clean everything thoroughly. You’re not left with dust or residue. The floor needs a few hours to fully cure depending on the sealer and finish work, but you’re usually back to normal use the same day we complete the job. Compare that to replacement, which can take weeks and costs significantly more.
Almost always, yes. Replacement means demo, disposal, new material, new installation, and all the time that takes. You’re looking at weeks of work and costs that run into tens of thousands depending on square footage.
Restoration keeps your original floor, maintains the historic character of your Roosevelt home, and costs a fraction of replacement. You’re done in days, not weeks. And if your marble is original to a pre-1970 home, you’re keeping something that buyers will pay a premium for.
There’s also the reality that new marble often isn’t the same quality as what was installed 60-80 years ago. You’ve got solid material under your feet right now. Why rip it out when we can make it look new again?
Polishing is the final step in restoration. It’s what creates the shine and smooth finish. But if your marble is scratched, etched, or damaged, polishing alone won’t fix it. You’ll just have shiny damaged marble.
Restoration includes everything needed to repair the stone first—honing out scratches and etching, fixing lippage, removing stains, repairing chips. Then we refine the surface and polish it to the correct finish level. That might be a high gloss, a honed matte, or something in between depending on what your floor was designed to have.
A lot of companies offer “marble polishing services” but skip the restoration steps because they don’t have the expertise or equipment. You end up with a floor that still looks bad. We do the full process correctly, which is why the results actually last.
Yes. Bathroom floor restoration is a big part of what we do. Bathrooms are where marble gets hit hardest—water, soap, acidic products, constant traffic in a small space. The damage adds up fast.
We restore marble floors, shower walls, vanity tops, thresholds, windowsills, fireplace surrounds—any marble or natural stone surface in your home. The process is the same: assess the damage, repair it properly, and restore the finish.
Bathrooms in Roosevelt’s older homes often have original marble that’s worth saving. It’s usually higher quality than what you’d install new today, and it’s part of the home’s character. We can bring it back to looking like it did originally, which makes a huge difference in how the whole bathroom feels.
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