Don't Make These Mistakes With Your Marble Surfaces

Commercial Lobby Marble Floor Cleaning

We know homeowners love their marble countertops, floors, vanities, columns or other marble surfaces. For this reason, there’s an ongoing search for many homeowners to find the best methods and products to care for their marble. If you have marble in your home and have been on this search yourself, we might have exactly what you’re looking for!

Avoid Most DIY Methods

Far too many homeowners make the mistake of trying to clean their own marble surfaces with DIY approaches, using the wrong methods or products that end up doing more damage than good. That’s because marble is a porous and sensitive surface, especially to acidic products, like many common house cleaners. Marble is also softer than most stone, making it more susceptible to scratching and dulling if scrubbed too hard or cleaned with the wrong material.

Since most generic cleaners, DIY approaches and common cleaning practices might be bad for your marble, it’s always better to leave intensive cleaning in the hands of a professional or team of trained technicians. That’s where we come in.

The Steam Team

When you call in The Steam Team for our marble polishing service, you’ll find that our technicians are experts at proper marble care, and will utilize our full line of specialized products specifically designed for cleaning and polishing even the most delicate marble surfaces. Floor tiles, countertops, vanities and even shower walls can all be polished back to their original shine by our professional technicians!

Our technicians will choose only the right method for the specific level of wear on your marble, removing all dirt, scratches and stains, and renewing the protective layer of the surface. If you need marble polishing in your home, give us a call! For more information on our many other services, visit The Steam Team website.

How Do You Clean Natural Stone?

So you have beautiful natural stone flooring, eh? Do you know how to properly clean it? Don’t worry, we’re here to help as always! Below, The Steam Team will provide a few tips on simple, intermediate, and deep cleaning your natural stone flooring. Happy cleaning, everyone! It’s certainly the season for it!

Simple Cleaning

First, let’s start by performing a few simple cleaning tasks! This includes sweeping and some light mopping. If you’re using a vacuum instead of a broom, just make sure you’re not using one with cracked or broken wheels that could damage your flooring. You can mop with your trust cleaning solution and a bucket of warm water (as long as the solution has been approved for natural stone flooring). That’s easy enough, right?

Intermediate Cleaning

When we talk about intermediate cleaning, we mean stain removal, or grout cleaning! All too often our grout is neglected, or those stains are just left to stick. When it comes to stain removal, the number one thing you must remember is that your cleaning solution must be meant for natural stone.

Deep Cleaning

When it comes time to deep clean your natural stone flooring, it’s best to call in the professionals. A professional cleaning and restoration company like The Steam Team will have all of the right tools and equipment for the job! You won’t have to worry about potentially damaging your natural stone flooring because it’ll be in expert hands!

Don’t hesitate; give The Steam Team a phone call today and you won’t regret making the leap! We can do wonders to your natural stone flooring or surfaces! We’ll come out, inspect your home, and restore them to their original condition. You can trust us to do the job correctly the first time!