Natural Stone Care in New Braunfels - Final Thoughts

Natural stone care in New Braunfels is all about knowledge.

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Professional Stone Cleaning in New Braunfels: Don't Damage Your Stone

As we covered previously, if you have granite, you want to get it professionally cleaned rather than take a chance. If you don't, you run the risk of damaging your granite. This holds true for other types of natural stone, especially calcium based stone such as marble, limestone, and travertine.

Travertine is elegant, but also surprisingly fragile. It forms near mineral springs from deposits left behind by bubbles. Since bubbles form it, travertine is rarely a solid piece of stone. As a result, the gaps are filled in with a resin that matches the color and texture of the stone. This resin is vulnerable to damage from harsh chemicals, but the stone itself is vulnerable to anything acidic.

Clean Your Stone Yourself? Don't

Do you want to clean your travertine yourself? Don't. Or at the very least, know what you're doing. As we covered above, if you put anything acidic on travertine, it can dissolve the resin as well as the stone itself. And by anything acidic, we really mean anything. Here's a short list of things that can harm your stone: bleach, red wine, coffee, orange juice, lemonade, and vinegar. Adding to this, there is a lot of misinformation out there. One 'stone care expert' for example advises you to use white vinegar to clean your travertine. While white vinegar works well on hardwood floors, if you put it on your travertine, suffice it to say, you'll have to replace your stone.

How do you know the product you're going to use is safe? Even tap water contains trace amounts of chlorine. It isn't just acid that's a problem. Ammonia is a common ingredient in cleaning products, and it isn't an acid, it's a solvent. If you use ammonia to clean your travertine, it will more than likely react chemically, and either start dissolving the stone, or discoloring it severely.

Remember, it is a lot cheaper to take care of your stone the right way, than to have to replace it all.
So follow the care instructions for your stone. Next, use the right way to clean it. And most important of all? Make sure that you call a professional stone cleaning service in San Antonio.

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