Limestone in shower stall

Maurizio, I just completed my master bath remodel. When asking about sealers, my contractor told me about your website. I had Jerusalem limestone installed on my shower walls, shower floor and on the bathroom floors. I see from your website that you don't recommend limestone for bathrooms. What do you recommend I do at this point? Do you have a sealer I could use or do you recommend not sealing the limestone and avoiding certain products in the shower? Your advice it greatly appreciated. Ciao!

 

Dear Pam:

The reason why I generally do not recommend limestone for a shower stall (or for a floor, for that matter) is because you never know what kind of limestone one's dealing with, and all too many of them are not recommendable when not downright disgraceful. But there are exceptions, and, luckily, Jerusalem Gold is among them. It is quite a dense limestone in the dolomitic side, which makes it a good material for your project.

As for the sealing, unless you can envision someone in your family going inside your stall and painstakingly start rubbing wet coffee grounds or cooking oil on the walls and floor until, finally, he or she will accomplish the goal of getting a stain (which would be easy to remove anyway), I don't see any utility in the attempt of pushing some alien resin inside your stone. J

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