Hello, I am having limestone installed in my bathroom floor and walls including the shower. The floors are crema europa and the walls are some limestone I cant for sure get the name of, but they almost have no movement, veins, and are of a cream color with some slight artifacts... almost a solid color. I am looking for a sealer and some cleaners for these products. The installers seemed to get hand prints on the solid limestone and I want to be sure I use the right product to try to clean it. Thanks, Will

 

Dear Will:

Limestone in bathroom, huh… If you ask me there ought to be law against it!!... :-(

And now, after having made the wrong decision (but you don't know that already) you're looking for a sealer…

Do you have the slightest idea what a sealer for stone is and what it does? In other words, what kind of “protection” if offers to stone in general and to your limestone in particular?...

That's what I thought!...

Do you know that's never a good idea to impregnate (seal) stone in a wet environment?

I believe that I can guess the type of solid limestone that you're describing, and if it is what I think it is (the setter leaves hand-prints on it… Whoa!...) it will be a complete maintenance nightmare, no matter how much impregnator you will try to push inside that poor stone. I sincerely hope that I'm wrong on this one.

The Crema Europa is much better, though.

I usually recommend MB products because they deliver the goods like nobody's business, but in cases like this one I'd rather let some snake-oil salesman else enjoy the ride…

Oh, BTW, don't forget to send a heartfelt thank-you note to the “knowledgeable merchants” that sold that stuff to you and assured you that it was quite all right for your project!

 

Man, does the world need marblecleaning.org or what?...

 

It's too late for you to benefit from this, but may I ask you now to please read and e-sign our Statement of Purpose at: http://www.marblecleaning.org/purpose.htm? At least you would be helping fellow consumers in the future.   :-)

Ciao and good luck,

Mauri z io Bertoli

 

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