Maintenance
Cleaning and Caring for your Stone Surface
Caring for your natural stone and composite quartz surfaces is essential to retain their timeless beauty. Our experts share valuable maintenance tips and tricks, empowering you to preserve the elegance of your surfaces for generations to come. Keep your investment looking flawless with our practical advice.
Granite
Granite is a very durable, natural material ideal for kitchen worktops, bathroom surfaces, fireplace fire surrounds and hearths, and flooring, perfect for busy family homes and businesses. It comes in a wide variety of colours – whites, blacks, greys, greens, blues, pinks, browns, golds, creams, oranges, and is easy to clean and maintain.
Granite
Clean and care tips
SEAL IT
Whilst granite is relatively non-porous compared to its softer sisters marble and limestone, it’s still important to seal any granite surface to help boost its stain resisting properties. Your kitchen fitter or stone mason should ensure that their product is correctly sealed before fitting; however it’s always worth double checking yourself. You can then reseal your top every 1-2 years to really stop the staining.
CLEAN IT
Clean it with a gentle, surface cleaner, ideally PH neutral. Avoid bleaches and other harsh cleaning chemicals which can lift layers of seal from your granite.
Durability Rating
5 (out of 5)
Is it susceptible to watermarks?
No
Can it be made water tight?
Yes
Marble
Marble is more porous than granite and quartz but with proper care and attention, a marble worktop, bathroom surface or staircase can look beautiful for years and years.
Marble
Marble is more porous than granite and quartz but with proper care and attention, a marble worktop, bathroom surface or staircase can look beautiful for years and years.
Clean and care tips
SEAL IT
This is particularly important with marble as it's more porous than harder stones like granite meaning it can stain more easily, including water marks. Your stone mason should ensure that their product is correctly sealed before fitting; however it’s always worth double checking yourself. You can then reseal your marble surface every 1-2 years to really stop the staining.
CLEAN IT
Clean it with a gentle, surface cleaner, ideally PH neutral. Avoid bleaches and other harsh cleaning chemicals which can lift layers of seal from your marble. Use a gentle cloth when cleaning, do not use a scourer pad which will scratch the surface and remove sealer.
Composite Quartz
Composite quartz is a man-made or engineered surface developed to be a durable surface for busy homes and businesses. It consists of crushed quartz, the second most common mineral on Earth, mixed with resins to create a huge variety of textures and colours. There are a huge number of brands who make and supply composite quartz and so each come with slightly different durability properties. If you have any questions or concerns Coulon Stone can contact the manufacturer for you.
Composite Quartz
Composite quartz is a man-made or engineered surface developed to be a durable surface for busy homes and businesses. It consists of crushed quartz, the second most common mineral on Earth, mixed with resins to create a huge variety of textures and colours. There are a huge number of brands who make and supply composite quartz and so each come with slightly different durability properties. If you have any questions or concerns Coulon Stone can contact the manufacturer for you.
Clean and care tips
CLEAN IT
Clean it with a gentle, surface cleaner, ideally PH neutral. Avoid bleaches and other harsh cleaning chemicals which can lift layers of seal from your granite.
Durability Rating
5 (out of 5)
Will it stain if I chop beetroot on it?
It shouldn’t but Coulon Stone can confirm with the manufacturer
Can it be made water tight?
Yes
Slate
Slate is perfect for bathroom surfaces including shower trays and floor tiles because of its non-slip texture, but slate is a strong and sturdy natural material that can also work very well as a rustic kitchen worktop or fire surround.
Slate
Slate is perfect for bathroom surfaces including shower trays and floor tiles because of its non-slip texture, but slate is a strong and sturdy natural material that can also work very well as a rustic kitchen worktop or fire surround.
Clean and care tips
SEAL IT
whilst granite is relatively non-porous compared to its softer sisters marble and limestone, it’s still important to seal any granite surface to help boost its stain resisting properties. Your kitchen fitter or stone mason should ensure that their product is correctly sealed before fitting; however it’s always worth double checking yourself. You can then reseal your top every 1-2 years to really stop the staining.
CLEAN IT
Clean it with a gentle, surface cleaner, ideally PH neutral. Avoid bleaches and other harsh cleaning chemicals which can lift layers of seal from your slate. Use a gentle cloth when cleaning, do not use a scourer pad which will scratch the surface and remove sealer.
Durability Rating
3-4 (out of 5)
Will it leave visible scratches if I chop on it?
Some yes, particularly if polished
Can it be made water tight?
Yes
Limestone
Limestone is more porous than granite and quartz, however works well in bathrooms and fire surrounds which are less exposed to staining.
Limestone
Limestone is more porous than granite and quartz, however works well in bathrooms and fire surrounds which are less exposed to staining.
Clean and care tips
BRUSH
Brush away dust, that might be enough to inject some life.
SEAL IT
As limestone is a natural stone, and a more porous one, it must be sealed to decrease the chances of staining and scratching. Your stone mason should ensure that their product is correctly sealed before fitting; however it’s always worth double checking yourself. You can then reseal your limestone surface every 1-2 years to really stop the staining.
CLEAN IT
Clean it with a gentle, surface cleaner, ideally PH neutral. Avoid bleaches and other harsh cleaning chemicals which can lift layers of seal from your granite.
Durability Rating
3-4 (out of 5)
Will it leave visible scratches if I chop on it?
Yes it is likely too
Can it be made water tight?
Yes
