Natural Stone Care in New Braunfels: Info From Your Pro

If you want to clean your marble tile yourself, be aware that there is a lot of misinformation out there.

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Professional Marble Cleaning Protects Your Stone

If you hire a professional marble cleaning service in New Braunfels, you not only will be cleaning your stone surfaces, you will be protecting them from any unintentional damage.

Natural stone care isn't as easy as you might think it is.  For example, if you use any harsh chemicals such as ammonia or bleach on your marble, you run the risk of damaging or even dissolving it.  Why?  Well, all stone within the calcium carbonate family which includes travertine, marble, and limestone are deceptive in a way.  They're stone, they are hard, but they have a critical weakness. They are chemically reactive to anything acidic.  

Something as simple as spilling red wine, coffee, or even orange juice on a marble surface may be enough to start eating away at your stone.  Bleach is an acid.  Most people don't realize that.  As for ammonia, it is a solvent, however, there is one problem.  Some stone has resin fillers to fill any gaps in the stone surface.  The  chemical bonds of these resin fillers start to break down the moment anything like ammonia is applied.  We have had more than a few customers buy a store bought product designed for cleaning marble.  At least, that's what the label reads.  Then we usually get a call from a frantic homeowner who is watching their stone foam up and start to dissolve.

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So what went wrong? Well, the customers in many cases didn't read the warning label or, even more importantly,  the list of ingredients. One of the ingredients in the solution was either ammonia, bleach, or something else corrosive.  That's why it is a better idea to call a professional service to clean your stone.  

First off, they're not going to use just any old product or guaranteed remedy to clean your marble.  They're going to use professional grade products to not only clean your stone, but seal it to protect it from damage.  

There is a lot of misinformation out there regarding stone cleaning.  For example, one "cleaning expert" states to clean your marble, use lemon juice and tap water.  Slight problem.  Lemon juice is acidic, and tap water contains trace amounts of chlorine.  

So be smart.  Hire a stone cleaning service instead.  

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