Orange, lemon, or other citrus cleaners. Glass cleaners. Hydrogen peroxide. Cleaning your granite countertops is quite easy, and you only need a few basic items: a large, soft, non-abrasive rag or cloth, paper towels, and mild dish soap.
Rinse the surface thoroughly after washing with the soap solution and dry with a soft cloth. An excessive concentration of stone cleaner may leave a film and cause streaks. You should not use Lysol on your granite countertops, backsplashes or vanity tops.
The cleaner contains harsh ingredients that can cause your sealer to lose its effectiveness. The product also has ammonia, which is extremely harmful to granite.
For stains on your granite, make a paste with baking soda and water. Baking soda is a naturally deodorizing, non-abrasive cleanser. Simply mix with enough water to form a soft paste, rub on the stain using circular motions and wipe thoroughly with a soft cloth or paper towel. Even with its natural ingredients, Method All-Purpose Cleaner is very effective at cleaning kitchen surfaces, as well as other surfaces throughout your home.
Not only is it effective, but it is also safe for use on granite countertops. Remove stains from your countertop without damaging the natural stone by using these tips: Apply a baking soda paste: No matter what you spilled, odds are baking soda can help remove it.
Then rinse and wipe the granite with a soft cloth to hopefully reveal a stain-free surface. This everyday spray provides a gentle, streak-free clean to leave your granite and marble surfaces looking great. Use this Pledge spray daily as a quartz cleaner, granite spray cleaner, marble spray, or on any sealed stone surfaces. This includes any product — natural, man-made, or homemade — that contains anything acidic or alkaline such as lemon or citric acid.
In addition, you want to avoid using the following products on your stone:. Bleach : While bleach is a great disinfectant, it can dull the finish of your granite and in some cases even change its color.
There are other, safer, ways to disinfect your stone, so avoid bleach and any products that contain it when cleaning your granite. Glass Cleanser : Glass cleaners such as Windex may look like a good choice to use on the glossy finish of your granite counter.
However, they can also dull the finish of your granite, and they can dull it in a patchy, uneven way that will make certain areas appear more noticeable to you in the future. Formula Formula is a popular bathroom cleaner that can disinfect, remove soap scum, and give your porcelain and ceramics a bright shine.
Unfortunately, Formula contains many substances that can damage the surface of your granite. So, even if your granite is installed in a bathroom, avoid using traditional bathroom cleansers like this when the time comes to clean your stone. Unfortunately, even a single application of any alkaline or acidic substance to your granite will do irreparable harm to the surface. This is because both acids and alkalines remove the weaker particles of the stone up at the surface.
This is called etching, and when the weaker particles of the stone are removed, you get a dull spot where they once were. This can happen even on honed stone surfaces, but is most apparent on a polished or glossy finish.
The only way to fix an etched countertop is to have it ground down and refinished — an expensive and inconvenient process. Etching is very avoidable, however, particularly if keep your stone sealed and use only PH neutral cleansers each and every time. Use water and a microfiber towel for most of your day-to-day cleansing needs or when you just need to wipe it down.
Cleaning with the right products is a great first step to keeping your countertops in pristine condition. It is possible to etch granite, but it takes a potent acid to do it. Lime-A-Way contains sulfamic acid and has a low pH around 2. This product could potentially etch a granite countertop, if left on the surface long enough.
However, etching is much more common on marble, so it's important to be sure you do indeed have a granite countertop and not marble. If it is granite, you'll need to hire a stone restoration professional to repair and re-polish the etched area. Not so with granite, which is very hard.
Special tools, abrasives and skills are required. Thanks for the reply by: Jason Huggett Hello again, Mr. I apologize for my time laps in returning. Apparently I had another page of emails that I did not realize, and your reply was one of them.
Anyways, thanks for getting back to me. I actually had a small incident yesterday by accident and I was able to test the recovery time. The stone is definitely sealed. The sealer is not able to penetrate all the way or deep enough into the grout. And although the deeper the better the coverage and performance, but even if only penetrates slightly into the grout the sealer should still perform to some degree.
Honestly, I wouldn't stress about it too much. If you do ever stain the grout you can likely easliy poultice it out or at worst replace it. Both options fairly uncomplicated. Good luck! Have a good one, sir! Thank you for getting back to me, I greatly apologize about my delay in responding to you.
As far as porous materials go; it is my understanding that the lighter the color of the stone, the more porous it is. So a white marble will be much more porous than a black granite. I have also found that the solvent base sealers, although they may enhance the stone, are much more effective than the water based sealers.
This has just been my personal experience. I also have recently had a mind boggling issue that perhaps you may have some input on. I installed travertine on my countertops, which I have installed for years. However, I have never had this stone in my personal house, until now. I sealed the stone with a water based sealer that I have been using for years my personal favorite.
It is called "clear shield. However, for whatever the reason, I have applied at least four coats, and my non-sanded grout seems as if it could use another four coats.
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