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Marble tile bathroom counter is ’cloudy’

Article Number: 467 | Rating: Unrated | Last Updated: Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM

Our marble 'tile' counter top is cloudy only in the place where I was setting my contact lens case (I guess the solution spills made it cloudy).I read your suggestion about scraping our cloudy marble countertop, but want to confirm before I get out the 'blade' out. Also, after it is cleaned, we should seal right? Thanks so much!

Dear Heather:

Leave the blade where it is!

If the "cloudy" area is rough to the touch, then it's beyond the DIY performance of a good-quality marble repair kit.

Yolur only option is to hire a bona-fide stone restoration contractor hat will have to slightly re-grind your marble surface (honing) and then repolish it to blend.

" Also, after it is cleaned, we should seal right?"

Wrong!

Not only is your marble most likely impossible to seal (just too dense), but even it were, the sealing wouldn't do the first thing to prevent the kind of damage that the acidity of your contact lense cleaner did to your stone. The only "sealer" that would really work to prevent that, would be one of those pretty mirror trays on which you will keep all your cleaning solutions. (Make sure that the parts of the tray in contact with the stone surface have felts on them!)

May I ask you now to please read and e-sign our Statement of Purpose at: http://www.marblecleaning.org/purpose.htm? J

Ciao and good luck,

Maurizio Bertoli

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