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[Audio description] Audio-described
version, with a

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synthetic narrator. The original video
pauses briefly for

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descriptions. The Fox Marble logo appears
over a house

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exterior. Jesus Alvarez sits beside a pale
kitchen counter.

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Spoken captions are also printed on the
original video.

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[Jesus Alvarez] My name is Jesus Alvarez.
I work with Fox

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Marble. Pretty much anything stone care

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related, any damage you have on your
natural stone, that's where we come in.

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[Audio description] Jesus stands at the
counter with a pale

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stone surface and a small dark green
veined sample. He

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squeezes lemon onto both, then points out
the affected

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areas.

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We're just going to do a little
demonstration

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here on what lemon does to an untreated
surface.

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Go ahead and pour some on here. A bit more
on this one here.

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On black surfaces, when you do get an etch
mark, it shows really white,

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so it's really an eyesore. You'll be able
to

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tell how the coating actually protects it.

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Even now, you can kind of see it starting
to dissolve the calcium

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in the marble itself. You see the bubbling
on here as well.

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[Audio description] A close-up shows a
pale, foamy-looking

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patch on the dark green sample. The view
moves to marks on

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the pale counter, which Jesus points
toward. The remaining

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footage returns to him seated beside the
counter.

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If your stone has already shown etch
marks,

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stains, scratches, things like that,

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we will send our crew out there, make sure

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everything's protected, then they do a wet
sanding.

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Diamond pads resurface everything. That's

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the only way to get rid of the etch marks,

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by actually re-sanding everything and

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then reapplying a sealer of your choice.

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For me, the main recommendation for white
marbles is always a

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coating. People mainly, they really like
the white marbles.

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Sometimes they're a little bit scared of
having that in their

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kitchen because people didn’t really like
the maintenance behind it.

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As soon as you pretty much drop anything,
it

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leaves a mark. With impregnating sealers,

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it gives you a little bit of time to wipe
up, but

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if you leave it long enough, it will leave
a mark.

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With the coatings, you don't have to worry
about that.

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You spill something, you could leave it
there overnight,

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come back the next day, wipe it off, and
you have zero damage to the marble.

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One issue we used to see was people
wanting limestone

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outdoors, outdoor barbecues, things like
that,

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but same thing, it’s too porous, to where
people didn’t want to deal

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with that maintenance of etch marks,
stains, and things like that.

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Now there's a coating specifically
designed for outdoors,

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UV resistant, that can be applied on
vertical surfaces.

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It gives you the same peace of mind. You
can leave something

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overnight, come back, wipe it off, and
live with it.

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We've had a lot of success, like I said,

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mainly in commercial, high-traffic areas.

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You could give us a call. We'll go out
there, resurface it, keep it

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maintained, maybe even do a yearly
contract to keep it maintained,

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because with natural stone, you want to
keep up with the maintenance before

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it's too late. Natural stone is beautiful.
You want to maintain that.

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[Audio description] The closing card shows
the Fox Marble

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logo and the words, Excellence from the
Ground Up.