Marble slabs on old furniture are noble and expensive - good advice for broken slabs as well. We show you, how to cleanly reassemble the two parts.
It's happening so fast: A careless movement when moving furniture or moving and the beautiful marble top is in two. Large-format stone slabs are naturally very brittle, That means, they break very quickly when strong bending forces or point loads occur. Fortunately, they usually break like this, that they can be seamlessly reassembled after breaking. That is the prerequisite for it, that you can join the parts of the slab with a special marble putty (akemi 1000 transparent) can put back together. However, that alone is not enough. In order to absorb the already mentioned bending stresses at the seam, the plate needs a kind of reinforcement made of high-tensile steel on the underside, connecting the fragments. After all, breaking it once is enough.
1 Beim Kleben muss die Marmorplatte auf einem ebenen Untergrund (coated chipboard) lie. So that it doesn't stick, place newspaper underneath. Mix the putty and hardener carefully and apply the compound thinly to one of the broken edges with the spatula.
2 Die Plattenteile möglichst schnell flächen- and join together flush. Squeeze them with just light pressure. Any glue that oozes out is cut off with the spatula.
3 Nach einer Stunde können Sie die Platte umdrehen und mit einer Flex drei Schlitze für die Armierung quer über die Klebefuge einschneiden.
4 Als Armierung dienen 4 to 6 mm thick and 50 mm long threaded rod sections, which you insert into the slots and fill with putty.
5 Die Oberfläche reiben Sie nach der Trockenzeit mit einem Alpin-Kristallisator ein und polieren sie anschließend mit feiner Stahlwolle durch.