Granite & Quartz care
Granite & Quartz are beautiful resilient surfaces that should provide years of happy use with proper care. With proper cleaning and sealing they should remain looking great. These resources are provided to to help provide guidance on the proper care of Granite & Quartz surfaces.
Caution: Products that contain Acid or ammonia should not be used on Granite & Quartz surfaces.
Let’s take a closer look at how we enhance and preserve your Granite and Quartz surfaces.
Granite & Quartz Identification & Care
Granite is a resilient natural surface, popular for countertops and flooring and come in many different colors. Granite can best be identified by its crystal like or salt and peppered appearance. As you can see in these examples of Granite, there is a distinct crystal look to it. Yet other Granite has more of a speckled or salt and pepper look.
Caution: Some cleaners that contain acid can be harmful to granite and most cleaning products will leave a residue, causing a dull film and leave oils trapped in the pores of the granite that emit odors, as the oils become rancid.
The proper care for Granite is to use a high quality cleaner that is not only safe for the granite, but will travel into the pours of the granite, lifting out oils trapped inside, without leaving a residue. Cleaning is the most important step with granite followed by applying a sealer.
Sealing Granite is applying a safe clear durable substance to fill in its pores, which helps to keep out things that may cause stains such as red wine, coffee, B-B-Q sauce or colored sports drink.
The only polishing of granite should be done by a professional as this is serious work. A gloss conditioner may be applied to help bring out the inner beauty of granite, but beware that some granite does not change its appearance with gloss conditioners.
Cleaning
Polishing
Sealing
Order of Care
When caring for your natural stone such as Granite there is an order to things which helps to assure the best care possible based on your Granite’s longevity and appearance.
This order is:
- First – Clean your Granite as best as possible regularly.
- Second – Repair your Granite if needed such as removing stains or repairing cracks.
- Third – Seal your Granite to help protect against stains and to help make cleaning easier.
- Lastly – Conditioning to help bring out your Granite’s best appearance if needed, as desired.
The intervals of these activities are very subjective and vary greatly based on the environment of the stone such as: Is your Granite indoors or outdoors, does it get high traffic or very little use and alike.
With this said here are some very general intervals:
- Cleaning should be done regularly between daily to weekly.
- Sealing should be done annually, between every six months to every two years.
- Repairs should be done as needed and a promptly as possible.
- Conditioning can be done as desired between monthly and just on occasions.
Again these are very general intervals to help give some frame of reference.
