Pointing jura limestone

[exoticpete]

Hi all we are laying some pre sealed jura limestone from London stone with a imperial granite sett edging from CED I have used gun pointing before but find it fiddly/messy and quite slow is there any reason why we cannot use marshalls 365 ? any advice would be great
Thanks
Peter

[cookiewales]

Hi am sure weather point would be fine but does it leave a sheen for a few weeks nexus have a non sheen epoxy which I have used on high class sandstone no sheen and spot on am shortly laying 160m2 plus sawn six sides York buff from London stone paving , and will be using nexus resin for this stone

[exoticpete]

cheers cookie

[lutonlagerlout]

I feel that in the eons of time (well 10 years or so )
sand/cement will be better than 365

but my experience over the last year tell me that 365 is a good product

my mate just popped round who does stone restoration in central london,he said a lot of their work is were builders have got cement on limestones and they then get called in to recut the floors

he has just recut some jura and said it is very hard and he used a lot of diamond pads



FTR pete with 900 by 600 flags and a 10mm joint we get around 10M2 per tub

LLL

[Tony McC]

Bear in mind that 365 is only a polymeric. It doesn't have the same strength or resilience of highway grade materials such as Rompox or GftK.

Jura *is* a danged hard stone but it can be thirsty, too, so, whatever you choose as pointing material, cement- or resin-bound, polmeric or epoxy, test a discreet area first because its light colour means any stain/residue can be highly noticeable.

[exoticpete]

Hi tony thanks for the advice we have had the stone pre-sealed with dry treat to minimise staining