5+ Mistakes to Avoid When Cleaning Natural Stone Surfaces

Everyone loves to have natural stone in the homes and offices, as it brings natural beauty, greater utility, and values worth to your investment. Improved stone mining to supply scenario has made easy and quick availability of a variety of stones from any corner of the world. It resulted in tremendous consumption.
However, everyone is not tech-savvy and ready to take pains of reading about natural stones, their types, and based on it cleaning as well as maintenance requirements. To bring an essential awareness today, I am going to pinpoint some common mistakes we make while dealing with natural stones as an integral part of our home; hence, life.
Let’s start with the basics first. The stone industry classifies dimension stones into two chief categories based on their content.

Siliceous rocks, which are high in silica or sand content and sturdy, durable, and somewhat resistant to acidic pH as well as scratching from cleaning and maintenance perspective. Quartzite, granite, sandstone, and slate are commonly used siliceous stones in our spaces.

Calcareous rocks, which are high in calcites or calcium compounds and beautiful, softer, and less immune to pH and scratching damages. Limestone, marble, and travertine are ideal calcareous stones.

I hope such clarification of basics may help you to find out the right treatments, tools, and chemicals for each category of stones. Of course, I shall try to elaborate things further in the coming sections based on two major stone categories commonly used in the construction industry.

Lack of A Regular Cleaning Program

Dirt & dust, which usually comes with normal airflow, foot traffic, and pets or animals, moving on the stone surfaces. If these particles get wet, they can give birth to bacterial colonies, the anchor for viruses, molds, mildews, and tiny insects.
How to avoid it? The simplest thing is to have a regular cleaning program in place to manage and maintain the natural beauty and extend the lifespan of stones installed in your interior and exterior spaces. We are used to practicing dry and wet cleaning treatments in our spaces.

1. Dry Mop Cleaning

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Dry cleaning of stone tiles is carried out with different tools, but dry mop is popular across the globe. Today, we have high-end technology to create microfiber filaments for mopping stones like sophisticated surfaces.

• Microfiber fringe yarn traps large particles of debris from corners and areas beneath the furniture easily, it can even penetrate grouts and natural groves in the surfaces, be it floor or walls. 
• Microfiber face yarn pulls up the finer particles of dust and dirt to allow prolonged application at a time. 
• You can fix the stick or handle it with the pad attached to the upper surface of the mop.

Remember:

• Dry mopping is essential daily in highly used areas like living rooms, kitchens, baths, toilets, façade, front porches, paths, office spaces, and manufacturing units, as well as public places with high foot traffic.
• Rests of low-usage areas you can go alternate days or more based on usage and dusting intensity in your locality.

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