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Just come back from Croatia where I was visiting some friends that have been doing up a place over there.
My mate had some marble worktops made up and fitted them his self (he use to work for me), the problem is that whilst the worktops have been polished I believe they have only been done enough to get a polished look and as such I think the pores are still really open, meaning it stains very easily. So much so that they are placing tea towels around the hob when they cook!
Any spills need to be wiped within minutes or it will mark but the absolute killer is lemon, is marks within seconds, as in doesn't stain but removes the sheen.
Now when he installed the worktops he put 3 coats of sealer on it, I have no idea what the sealer is as it's in an unmarked bottle which the stone masons gave him, it has clearly come from a much larger container.
I did wonder if the lemon is cutting straight through the sealer and removing it, so I tried resealing the area where the lemon has marked, I didn't expect the sealer to remove the mark completely but did expect some sort of minor improvement to the sheen where the sealer is filling the pores, alas it made no difference at all. Which now makes me think the lemon is etching the stone due to the acidity.
I fully expected that to get rid of the marks that they would need to be polished out, but the problem still remains that even after polishing out the marks the rest of the worktop still needs to be sorted. Removing them is not an option and neither is the stonemason coming out to re-polish the whole lot as things work very differently out there.
So my question is what cleaner and what sealer would some of the stone experts on here suggest? Bearing in mind that it will have to withstand acidic foodstuffs rather than your normal dirt and grime that say a floor would be subject to?
In addition I am not 100% convinced it is marble and have thought there is a chance the stone is in fact a limestone which may explain why it marks so easy.
My mate had some marble worktops made up and fitted them his self (he use to work for me), the problem is that whilst the worktops have been polished I believe they have only been done enough to get a polished look and as such I think the pores are still really open, meaning it stains very easily. So much so that they are placing tea towels around the hob when they cook!
Any spills need to be wiped within minutes or it will mark but the absolute killer is lemon, is marks within seconds, as in doesn't stain but removes the sheen.
Now when he installed the worktops he put 3 coats of sealer on it, I have no idea what the sealer is as it's in an unmarked bottle which the stone masons gave him, it has clearly come from a much larger container.
I did wonder if the lemon is cutting straight through the sealer and removing it, so I tried resealing the area where the lemon has marked, I didn't expect the sealer to remove the mark completely but did expect some sort of minor improvement to the sheen where the sealer is filling the pores, alas it made no difference at all. Which now makes me think the lemon is etching the stone due to the acidity.
I fully expected that to get rid of the marks that they would need to be polished out, but the problem still remains that even after polishing out the marks the rest of the worktop still needs to be sorted. Removing them is not an option and neither is the stonemason coming out to re-polish the whole lot as things work very differently out there.
So my question is what cleaner and what sealer would some of the stone experts on here suggest? Bearing in mind that it will have to withstand acidic foodstuffs rather than your normal dirt and grime that say a floor would be subject to?
In addition I am not 100% convinced it is marble and have thought there is a chance the stone is in fact a limestone which may explain why it marks so easy.
