Marble Care Tips
1. Avoid getting any acid based cleaners such as toilet bowl cleaner
on your stone as it will damage or "etch" the surface of the
stone.
2. Make sure you seal your grout periodically as the effectiveness
of the sealer will reduce over time.
3. The shinier floor will sooner show patterns of wear and scratches.
4. For scratches removing try buffing stone surface with #0 dry steel
wool.
5. For scratches removing on black surfaces try to use a black permanent
marker.
6. In some cases small scratches can disappear by using stone color
enhancer sealer.
7. Stone waxing is used as quick fixes and are more of a problem than
a solution. Stone waxing prevent from "breathing" and the
chemicals used for stripping can burn and damage stones.
8. A marble floor can be easy damaged by sand or dirt, which makes
scratches on the surface and reduce a shine.
9. Make sure the selected stone cleaner can be used on the your kind
of stone.
10. Any stone can lose a shine if it is not properly maintained.
11. Onyx or limestone is beautiful stone but soft and better if used
in a low traffic areas.
12. Always dry your marble or granite after washing as they can to
get stains easily.
13. Any types of sealer provide limited protection. It is important
to understand that diligent care must be taken to maintain the beauty
of natural stone.
14. Any spills containing acid or alkaline will etch and produce dull
marks on your marble.
15. Free-rinse neutral stone cleaner is best for periodic marble floor
wet mopping.
16. The first step of restoration should be to strip away any build
up of old wax.
17. Polishing stone is abrasive process, is not just applying wax onto
surface and then buffing it up.
18. Color enhancer sealers will enhance or enrich the color of marble.
19. Thinset under floor tiles leave empty spaces which can cause cracks,
and after drying may produce lippage.
20. Penetrating sealer doesn't protect stone surface from etching.
Sealing will protect from staining.
21. To avoid etching - wipe up spills immediatly, use a neutral stone
cleaner made specifically for stone.
