Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Cleaning Marble Sinks: What Are The Options?

Marble sinks are beautiful and marvelous addition to homes. You can get them for your bathroom, kitchen, and utility room or in any other room where you think the sink to be a valuable one. However, these beautiful sinks are not very easy to clean and often maintaining them is a tough task indeed. You should clean and maintain the marble sinks from the very beginning of your purchase.

Never make use of any abrasive cleaner on the marble sink. These cleaners will scrape, gouge and cut the beautiful sink. But now you may question how will you be able to recognize whether the cleaner is an abrasive one or not. Drop a little bit of the cleaner on the finger and rub the fingers together. If it feels gritty or burns then the cleaner is an abrasive one and shouldn’t be placed anywhere near the new sink.

Marble sink
build up soap scum. People find difficultly in cleaning up these soap scum from the sink. Over the time, the soap scum diminishes the look of the marble sink which you adore and love. So, it is quite essential to know about preventing the soap scum in the tracts. Here there are two options of removing soap scum.

Firstly, purchase an expensive cleaner. The cleaner should be a non-abrasive one specially designed for marble. When you will go to the hardware stores for buying this, you can see many manufacturers of non abrasive cleaners claiming to manufacture the perfect, best and essential marble cleaner. However, they are also available at many retail stores. Do a quick search on internet and get to know about some best cleaners of non-abrasive type.

Secondly, for removing the soap scum you can buy the low priced Suave shampoo. You can use any smell which you find appealing. If you like the coconut one, you can use that. The coconut smell has a lingering aroma which can be enjoyed. Then get baking soda and post that pour the shampoo on that new, soft sponge and a very little amount of baking soda over the shampoo. After this, you simply need to rub off the scum. This procedure is quite easy and cheap and the best home remedy for removing soap scum.

So, now you are aware of how marble sink cleaning can be made cheap and easy. However, sometimes your marble sink may be damaged, don’t worry! The damage can be repaired quite easily and to repair the damage you first need to go to an auto shop nearby your area. Purchase a car wax and few rubbing compound. Don’t go for the cheap ones. Purchase the best quality car wax that is available in the store.

Now, come back home and very carefully wax and compound the surface of the marble sink. This hopefully will get the marble sink out of damage. However, if this process does not work, then you should seek the help and assistance of professionals. Make a search in yellow pages under tub and sink repair to find the professional who would recoat and sand the marble sink.

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