It depends how big your house or the size of area you are going to place that 2X2 marble. If it is small house less 300-500 square feet living room. 2X2 marble make it looks like very small and tight place. but if it is broken marble and/or 1X1 or 1X2, the area feel more spacious.

Ipoh marble is not as porous as imported natural stone. The discoloration can be grinded and polish. If you are worry about food and drinks leaving stain on the floor, that is the question whether you treat you house like a home or some local food stores. I always prefer ipoh marble over imported stones because I use less chemical to maintain ipoh marble then I need for import marble/stone.

On how some shopping malls have good looking marbles even after being walked over by a lot of people. 1 of the reason is shopping malls marble use wax to protect their marbles. Another one is such as KLCC where the marble are grind and polish on schedule basis after their patrons are gone, the stone polisher start working.

People who advise you to use tiles would say tiles need less maintenance and you can choose tiles that looks and shine like marble but be advised that these shine can be faded after a while and to re-polish them back to shine is quite costly in malaysia. (Anyone can give quotation on price of polishing Tiles per sq ft???)

Floor tilings is a personal choice. After the kids are gone to college and marriage. You would want to look onto the floor and marble have a timeless feel onto it. it was natural stone after all.

I you just polish, the stain will not be removed. If the marble have stain and dirty, need to grind first then vaccuum and grind to finer grade diamond disc before polishing. and then mr muscle marble and terrazzo 3 in 1 will be use for final touch and vaccuum.

If you have any holes or those black grouting you want to remove, you need to say beforehand with the sub-con polishing your floor. fixing grouting and filling holes takes time even with marble glue. not many marble polisher especially foreign worker are willing to do it.

if you need anything about marble polishing next time, you can call 012-2182266 (Ah Pan).

Remember got holes need to fill, need to inform before hand. time is money, if delay even 1 hour to fill holes and moves furniture, it will push the schedule forward. why do 2 days work when a person can finish in 1 day?