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Cleaning & Maintenance Tips for Natural Stones

Natural stones are bringing natural beauty to your places.

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Cleaning & Maintenance Tips for Natural Stones

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  1. Cleaning & Maintenance Tips for Natural Stones

  2. Introduction • Natural stones are bringing natural beauty to your places. Natural stone always is dazzling your eyes with lustrous appearance unless time-worn effects are diminishing all. Some areas are affecting rapidly due to ongoing wear& tear or weathering while some less, thanks to proper cleaning and maintenance practices. So, today I am going to describe ten (10) best cleaning & maintenance tips for natural paving stones in 2019.

  3. Know Your Stones • Siliceous Stones: Some stones contain Silica, which is the main component of sands, so those are referring as Siliceous Stones. • Calcareous Stone: Some stones have Calcites or Calcium Carbonate as chief mineral, so known as Calcareous Stones. • .

  4. Tip 1 – Know Siliceous Stones

  5. Tip 2 – Know Calcareous Stones

  6. Tip 3 – General Cleaning & Maintenance Tips

  7. Tip 4 –Area/space Specific Cleaning & Maintenance Tips

  8. For Exterior Floor Surfaces: • Apply cleaning practices described in general cleaning section regularly. For Exterior Countertop Surfaces: • Barbeque and exterior tables/desks countertops are the most used areas where chances are high for staining, spilling, heat damaging, and scratching due to complicated activities of food preparations. For Other Surfaces: • Exterior walls, open stairsteps, window sills, and myriads of other large to small surfaces laid or cladded with natural stones are demanding regular attention of cleaners. Dry dust removal and wet/water washing are useful to avoid rapid wear and tear.

  9. Tip 5 – Identifying Stains

  10. There are varying types of staining takes place on stone surfaces due to different causes. Let’s identify causes of stains first so we can take precautionary steps in advance. • Organic Stains • Inorganic Stains • Oil-based Stains • Biological Flora-based Stains • Ink Stains

  11. Tip 6 –General Stain Removal Techniques

  12. Tip 7 – By Type Stain Removal Techniques

  13. Washing detergents and mineral spirits or acetone are best solutions to remove oil-based stains. • On siliceous stones, you can apply diluted hydrogen peroxide solutions directly on the organic stains. • For calcareous stones, you have to apply only a mild detergent/soap solution or warm water to remove the stone, not any acid-based mixture at all.

  14. Tip 8 – StainRemovalPoultice Technique

  15. Often general stain removal techniques and solutions prove inadequate on tough stains. A poultice is a technique to pull and suck the stain molecules from inner mass or beneath the surfaces of stones.

  16. Tip 9 – Sealing Natural Stones

  17. Conclusion • Now, you have nearly complete guide for 2019 to clean and maintain natural stones in your exterior spaces to keep the natural beauty intact for longer. High-quality natural stones for external applications from reliable suppliers like World of Stones is an excellent and cost-effective option. World of Stones provides only quality stone products, which last for longer and need a fewer maintenance expenditure. Would you like to try it once?

  18. Thank You Contact us: https://worldofstonesusa.com/ info@worldofstonesusa.com

  19. Source • https://worldofstonesusa.com/blog/cleaning-maintenance-tips-natural-stones/

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