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We instaled a Stone Forrest granite bathroom sink. WE had not sealed it yet. I placed a vase of Dayillies in water on it. The flowers dripped a re/purple substance from the blossoms onto the unsealed granite - the color has gone into the unsealed granite. What do we do!?
 

Dear Deanna:

Even if you had applied an impregnating sealer to it, the stain would have occurred anyway. Sealers for stone can only make the stone stain-resistant, never stain-proof. If you let a staining agent sit on stone long enough, even if sealed with the best impregnator in the world (for that particular stone), it will stain.

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Ciao and good luck,

Mauri z io Bertoli

 

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