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Limestone in the bathroom - a good or bad idea?

Dear Maurizio Firstly thank you for this fantastic site and your wonderful advice. I am in the UK and teetering on the brink of ordering White Pearl Polished Limestone for the bathroom floor and splashbacks but am having second thoughts after reading though your site. I having tried to read as many posts here as possible but can't seem to find an answer to these questions. So here goes - Is this stone or indeed limestone in general a good or bad idea in the bathroom? If it is a bad idea polished then how about honed? If it is good what exactly should I do before I get it installed and with what products? Also - I love a bright white look but honed travertine is quite dark. What stone would you suggest for floors and what stone for wet rooms that is light and bright? Many thanks - ur a star ....
 

Dear Cleone:

Why, thank you for your nice words!

As for this polished White Pearl limestone it appears to be exclusively an English thing. I Googled it and I found a few different White Pearl stones: 1 marble coming from China , 1 “granite” coming again from china; and 1 granite coming from Italy . On the other hand, there's a website of an English company offering White Perl limestone on e-Bay, but no specifications are available about that particular stone. Not even a picture, as matter of fact.

So I really don't know what to tell you.

Personally, this side of travertine and a few (very few) selected limestones, I wouldn't consider using limestone (polished or honed it doesn't matter) in a bathroom if they'd pay me to get it! Especially, like in this case, if I can't even gather any intelligence about a specific limestone. I'm no gambler, thank you very much!

Why don't you consider polished or hone-finished white marble instead?... No problems there!

Other than that, I'm strictly a mechanic, so, please, leave me out of the decorating business; I'm even 25% colorblind, for crying out loud! J

 

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Ciao and good luck,

Mauri z io Bertoli

 

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