How to clean stone sink correctly?
Post Date: 11 May 2010 Viewed: 794
Stone sink is noble, beautiful and unique. But because stone has interspace itself, so stone sink is very easy to be polluted. Clean stone sink becomes the required course to stone sink users.
How to remove stubborn dirt on the stone sink? Actually, it is not hard. Clean stone sink following below steps can give back a new look to sink.
First of all, we can use neutral stone detergent to clean stone sink. If neutral detergent does not have effect, you can try detergent with stronger detergency to clean stone sink. Pay attention to distinguish the acidity and alkaline of stone itself, and what kinds of chemical substances twill react with the stone. For example, marble is alkalescent, and should use alkalescent detergent while granite is acidic should use acidic detergent.
Then wet the surface with pure water. This helps to avoid the overquick dry of detergent, can make it have a better contact and react with stain,
Afterwards, prepare some gypsum, to absorb the stain on the stone sink. Gypsum can be replaced by flour. A few tablespoons detergent mix one cup flour, stir evenly, that is ok. Of course you can buy chemical gypsum. If the stain contains red wine, replace detergent by perhydrol.
Cover the stain with thick gypsum and plastic cloth, keep wet. Leave it overnight.
After 24 hours, remove the plastic cloth, but not gypsum. This is very important. With the help of evaporation drying of the water in the gypsum, can suck out the water in the stone sink, and then draw out the stain.
After natural drying up, clean up the gypsum by blade or putty knife. And then use water and neutral detergent to clean the rest stain.
Granite is harder to clean, needing more time, keeping the wet time longer. If most stain has cleaned, and there are still some little stain which making the stone surface dim out, you can use this method after a week or longer.