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Article Number: 676 | Rating: Unrated | Last Updated: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:00 AM

Hi Maurizio: Can you recommend a travertine cleaner for weekly use? I like to clean my bathroom once a week, but since we have installed the travertine in our bathroom, I have not touched for fear of ruinging the travertine or seal. I have heard using a mild detergent for cleaning is helpful. Can you recommend a cleaner to use? Also, I noticed some light grey/blackish color around the holes in our travertine that were filled with grout. Could this be mold? Thank you.

Dear Nicloe:

Amazing, isn't it? They conned you into the sealing ritual that with travetine in a bathroom you needed like a hole in your head, but "forgot" to give you any intelligence about the vastly more important issue of the routine maintenance!

The total lack of prefessionalism displayed all too may times by all too many industryv operators takes my breath away!

Mild detergent, huh... Can you please define "mild detergent" for me? Did they ever tell you what a "mild detergent" is and where to find it?...

And now this:

" I noticed some light grey/blackish color around the holes in our travertine that were filled with grout. Could this be mold?"

It probably is and, most likely, you can thank the sealer for that: what can you espect from a stone into which some alien resin was uselessly pushed?.. :-(

By logging into the Helpful Hints section of our website at: http://www.marblecleaning.org/helpful-hints.htm, you will be able to get the short version of our maintenance guidelines at no charge. The full version of it – a 7-page document considered by many as an industry benchmark – is available in pay- per-download format in our Educational Literature section at: http://www.marblecleaning.org/literature.htm.

And remember, every single penny of the cost of the literature will be used to support this site and its cause: your cause.

While you are in the “Helpful Hints” section, do spend some time reading all of the interesting FREE articles you'll find in there!

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Thank you

Ciao and good luck,

Maurizio Bertoli

www.marblecleaning.org – The only Consumers' Portal to the Stone Industry Establishment!