Household bathroom stone selection and cleaning and maintenance

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people are increasingly pursuing luxury and high-end decorative effects in home decoration. Gradually, the extensive use of natural stone in home decoration has become a fashion, and its scope of application has gradually expanded to the decoration of toilets and bathrooms.

The choice of bathroom stone

Due to the different concepts and preferences of home owners, and the diversity of stone color varieties and the ever-changing texture, bathroom stone is very diverse in the use of color materials, including marble, limestone, granite, sandstone, slate, quartz stone and so on. But usually the main use of bathroom stone is marble and granite. (However, due to concerns about the radioactivity of granite, the use of granite has begun to decline.)

Now, people generally like to use plain or solid color or simple texture of stone to decorate the floor and wall of the bathroom, with rich texture of marble to decorate the countertop of the washstand, which can add a bit of elegant atmosphere to the bathroom.

Marble is also called deteriorated or re-crystallized limestone. True marble is a calcite-based metamorphic rock with a crystalline structure. Marble is mostly limestone derived from geological changes, its main components are calcite and calcium carbonate, Mohs hardness value of about 4.5. So its disadvantage is soft, acid and alkali resistance, weatherability is poor, easy to absorb oil, water and other liquids and pollution, easy to be scratched, not wear-resistant, and almost all containing acid and alkali cleaning thorns and stains will damage the marble, stay a little longer, the marble damaged and lose luster.

Therefore, the marble used in the bathroom should be made of hard material and high density, and try to avoid the use of soft material and high water absorption marble. Bathroom marble is best to choose polished surface processing, and before use to do protective treatment, so that you can better protect the stone, but also easy to clean, and marble paving for the use of vertical paving. Light-colored stone is more resistant to slight soap water pollution than dark stone, so it is recommended not to use green serpentine and black marble in the bathroom and bathroom, so that the possibility of contamination of the stone surface is relatively small.

Cleaning and maintenance of bathroom stone

Natural stone is a kind of high-grade decorative material with natural beauty and unique texture. The surface looks like natural stone has fine texture and high hardness. However, due to its natural nature and diversity of mineral structure, as well as many defects and problems of stone itself, natural stone is very delicate. Natural stone not only need to be careful when installing and laying, but also pay attention to careful care and maintenance in daily use.

Due to the special environmental conditions of the toilet and bathroom, its moisture, moisture, mold and dirt, and often contact with detergents and other daily chemicals, so the bathroom stone is very vulnerable to pollution, once the maintenance is not good, the surface of the stone will be corroded, become dull, and even appear color spots and lines.

Therefore, in daily life, be careful not to use shampoo containing dyes, do not use soap and shampoo containing artificial pigments, and do not use acidic or alkaline detergents, should be neutral detergent to clean the surface, try to make the stone surface dry, there are pollutants on the stone surface to wipe clean immediately, and so on.

Maintenance points of bathroom stone

1. Confirm the hardness of water quality.

Use soft water as much as possible in daily life and stone maintenance. Because hard water will leave deposits on the surface of the stone, these deposits will darken the surface color and will chemically react with the stone surface. Because the removal of these deposits requires the use of chemical products. While removing stains, chemicals also damage the stone.

2. Use permeable stone protectant to protect stone.

In order to reduce the water absorption rate of the stone and reduce the degree of adhesion between the sediment and the stone, the use of permeable stone protective agent is the best way. Before installing the stone, it is best to carry out the following two kinds of protection: one is to carry out internal protection of the stone, that is, to use permeable silicone resin solvent for protection to minimize water absorption; The second is to protect the stone surface, that is, to use fluorine-containing polymers with waterproof and oil-proof properties to reduce the damage of mineral deposits and acidic or alkaline stains such as soapy water to the stone.

3. The stone surface should be cleaned in time after each use of the bathroom.

At the same time in the cleaning time to wash according to the specific situation to carry out targeted cleaning, that is, according to the variety of stone, the use of the environment, the main source of pollution to choose the corresponding cleaning agent and cleaning method. If you do not understand the specific situation and blindly choose cleaning agent will cause stone damage, deterioration, yellowing, black and other different consequences.

4. Polishing marble surface regularly

After a period of use, if the local color of the marble surface becomes dark, or even serious damage, the surface gloss disappears. This can actually use liquid polishing mixture (polishing powder and polishing liquid) to carry out their own cleaning (DIY) polishing. Or choose a professional marble conservation company to help maintain polishing. It is best to use after a period of time, generally once a year, do not wait until the stone is seriously damaged before polishing maintenance.