Your San Antonio Tile Cleaning Expert: Natural Stone Care: Tips, Tricks, and What to Avoid (Contd.)

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Natural Stone Cleaning

Stone care includes things like stone cleaning. But how do you safely clean natural stone? One major step to take in ensuring that your stone surface is in a perfect condition is by using warm water and a neutral cleaner while always ensuring that you use a clean rag mop on your floor and soft clothes for cleaning the other surfaces.

Excessive use of the cleaner may leave a film on your stone surface thereby needing one to be very keen with the manufacturer recommendations while others opt for an easy way out by hiring a tile cleaning service. Thorough rinsing of the floor after using soap during cleaning is also vital with one required to make sure that he or she dries up the floor thereafter. Mild bleach is always the best way to go when dealing with wet surfaces as it is very good in removing algae and moss. When cleaning you are not allowed to mix ammonia and bleach because the combination causes a lethal gas and for this you are highly encouraged to get a professional help to do the cleaning whenever there is chemicals involved. You also want to protect your stone after you have cleaned it, and one of the best ways to do it is to seal your stone.

Stone Sealing

This is a common form of precaution used against staining of the stones. Although most of the stones do not required sealing, people still use the sealing products to make their stones resistant to stains.

The first procedure in removing a stain from a stone surface is being able to tell the type of stain which later determines how you are going to get rid of the stain. An oil-based stain for example must be chemically dissolved before using mineral spirits to completely get rid of the stain. Organic stains on a stone surface on the other hand are removed by use of hydrogen peroxide and a few drops of ammonia while metal stains can only be removed with a poultice. Ammonia, hydrogen peroxide or bleach is used to get rid of a biological stain with other stains such as the ink stain also being removed by the same procedure. Call a tile cleaning service if you have any questions

Friday, December 5, 2014

Natural Stone Care: Tips, Tricks, and What to Avoid (Contd.)

Natural Stone Cleaning

Stone Sealing