Stone Cleaning in the Beach Cities

If you want to find a service that does stone restoration in the beach cities, you want to make sure that they know what they're doing.  You want a rare combination of experience, reputation, and a high level of service.

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Natural Stone Care in South Bay

Whether you have a marble floor or a granite countertop, natural stone adds a touch of class to either a commercial property or a residential one.  Most people like some form of natural stone in their home. Been in an upscale hotel?  Guess what the floor is made of?  That's right, you have a fairly However, if you have any sort of stone, while it does provide a touch of class to the place, you also want to keep it up.  That's where a commercial stone restoration service in the south bay area  of Los Angeles comes into play.  If you have natural stone in your home or business; it is both beautiful as well as functional.  However, after years of foot traffic, spills, scuffs and bumps you may find your floor looking like a shadow of it's former glory.
Natural stone, however, is one of those materials that can be restored with the help of a commercial stone restoration service.   One thing to note is that calling  a beach cities based stone restoration service is not as expensive as you might think.  Usually such services offer a wide variety of things that they can help you with, such as stone cleaning, stone honing, stone polishing, as well as sealing your stone.

Natural Stone Restoration

What is natural stone restoration? This is a combination of the services we have described above.  Some harder stones like marble or granite do well with stone grinding or honing.  This process takes out the scratches, pits, and other blemishes.  However, you want to make sure you go with a professional service.  If you try to grind a softer stone, or a stone that has natural gaps in it such as travertine, you could find yourself having to rip up your floor and starting all over again.  They can also work with you to get the level of polish that you want for your floor or countertop.
Maybe you want a glossy shine, or a matte finish.  A good polishing might be in order with diamond abrasive pads.  After you have had stone cleaning done, make sure that your stone cleaning service in the south bay offers you stone sealing.  This will help to protect your stone from spills and stains between visits.
Natural stone is porous. Anything acidic such as  orange juice, vinegar or wine can have a chemical reaction with your stone. And the things that can harm your stone don't stop at drinks.  Bleach is horribly bad for stone surfaces, as ammonia can be, and guess what's in a lot of cleaning agents?  So as you see, call in a professional stone cleaning service in the beach cities. 
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Natural Stone Care: The Avoid List

Natural stone care is necessary to keep your stone from being damaged.  And believe us, if you don't know what you're doing, it is very easy to damage stone.

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Stone Care 101:  Hold the Wine, Hold the Lemon

A lot of times when people think of red wine spill on a floor surface, they think it is on a white carpet, and call a carpet cleaning service. However, what a lot of people don't know is that something as simple as spilling a glass of wine, red or not can have a disastrous effect on a stone surface.  If your stone is calcium based such as travertine, limestone, or marble, not only can it stain your stone, it can also start to dissolve your stone, and it isn't just wine that can do this.

One of our clients was all about white vinegar.  She had hardwood floors in her living room, and a small combination of white vinegar and water is very effective for cleaning a hardwood floor between visits.  Well, she thought the same would hold true for cleaning stone tile.  If you're face-palming at this moment while saying "oh no," congratulations.  You have a firm grasp on the problem.  She found that in places where she sprayed her marble floor heavily, her stone was feeling rough.  This is because the vinegar was literally eating away at her stone.  She was lucky though.  Marble can be brought back if the surface isn't too far gone.

In fact, a bit of stone honing and marble polishing can bring up the polish in marble fairly quickly and easily.  After we cleaned it, and sealed it, we cautioned her never to use white vinegar or anything acidic on her floor again.  And a lot of people don't know how much is acidic.  Here's a short list of things never to put on any stone surface or spill: bleach, coffee, orange juice, lemonade, all forms of vinegar, wine, and you even have to be careful with tap water.

Natural Stone Care: Final Points to Consider

Tap water?  What's wrong with tap water?  Well for one thing, a lot of tap water has trace amounts of chlorine in it, essentially bleach.  In addition if you wet mop your stone and don't dry it properly, it can attract bacteria that can eat away at your marble.   Marble for all of it's beauty is one of the hardest stones to care for where natural stone care is concerned.

So, remember, knowledge is power.  Know what you can do with your natural stone as well as what you can't.  And when you want to be sure call a stone cleaning service in Los Angeles.

Read one of our previous articles on natural stone care here.

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1007 N.Sepulveda Blvd. #1204
Manhattan Beach, CA 90267
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Natural Stone Care Part 1: Marble and Travertine

Part one of a series on natural stone care explores travertine and marble.

What is Travertine?

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What is travertine?  From Wikipedia: Travertine is a form of limestone deposited by mineral springs, especially hot springs. Travertine often has a fibrous or concentric appearance and exists in white, tan, and cream-colored varieties. It is formed by a process of rapid precipitation of calcium carbonate, often at the mouth of a hot spring or in a limestone cave. In the latter, it can form stalactites, stalagmites, and other speleothems. It is frequently used in Italy and elsewhere as a building material. Travertine is a terrestrial sedimentary rock, formed by the precipitation of carbonate minerals from solution in ground and surface waters, and/or geothermally heated hot-springs." SOURCE ARTICLE

Travertine has a tendency to be a softer stone, so you don't want to grind it.  One key part of care for travertine is to get professional stone sealing done.  Stone sealing helps to impregnate the stone with a liquid proof seal that helps to repel stains and protect your floor against damage.  But what about Marble

Natural Stone Care and Marble

Marble is a harder stone, and you actually can grind it and do stone honing, and polish it with coarse grit buffers, however there is a bit of a warning where marble's concerned.  Don't spill anything acidic on it, even something fairly innocuous like coffee or orange juice, or it will literally eat away at your stone.  Like travertine, you can seal marble to protect it from both stains and damage, which considering how much fine marble can cost, is probably a good idea.

So remember, knowing what you can and can't do with your stone will save you a lot of trouble as well as a lot of money.  When in doubt call in a stone care service.

This concludes part one of our series.  For more information, please be sure to read part two and part three as well.

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1007 N.Sepulveda Blvd. #1204
Manhattan Beach, CA 90267
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