Search Results for "travertine care"

1. Where can I find information about caring for my stone?
   Q. Where can I find information about caring for my stone?A. You can always count on www.stoneandtilepros.com to be a source for information on caring for your marble, travertine, granite, onyx, l ...
2. How do I protect and maintain my calcutta gold stone?
   I am going to recommend that you read our Stone Care Guide. It is a comprehensive guide that you will want to read and keep on hand and covers everything from routine cleaning to sealing ...
3. How do I clean my travertine and granite counters?
   Q: We are preparing our house for sale and have installed beautiful granite counters in the kitchen, and what our installer tells us is Travertine in the bathroom on a ready-made cabinet. The gran ...
4. We are installing 12 X 12 travertine in a bathroom. Can you recommend sealer and cleaning products?
   Q. We are installing 12 X 12 travertine in a bathroom. Can you recommend sealer and cleaning products?A. Travertine is a great choice for your bathroom. I would like you to download and read our S ...
5. How do I clean the hard water marks in my Travertine shower?
   Q: My 6 month old shower has a travertine shower pan and a combination of ceramic and travertine tile on the walls. There are hard water marks all over the tile and on the fixtures and I need ...
6. Can travertine be polished after it has been sealed?
   We recently had travertine cross cut torren placed in our kitchen foyer and hallway the floor was sealed by the installer. However we would prefer to have more of a shine to the floor then we pres ...
7. Travertine
   Q. Hello-we recently moved into a brand new construction home with polished travertine tile floors. In general the tiles look good but there are areas that have what look like water spots that I c ...
8. Removing etching from travertine table
   Q. Hello I am looking for some help to correct water rings on our sealed travertine table. There are splash marks and rings where glasses were placed. This is a brand new table and I'm hoping to f ...
9. What is the best way to fill holes in travertine tiles?
   Q. What is the best way to fill holes in travertine tiles?A. One quick and effective way of filling holes in honed travertine is to squeeze some almond-colored caulking material in them. Fill ...
10. How do I fill holes in my travertine tile?
    Q. I have Travertine Tile with some holes in the tile and would like to fill them in. Is there any material other than putting the grout into the holes to file them? What is the best material to u ...
11. I am thinking of installing travertine tiles in my bathroom shower and would like to know if there are any problems with this type of stone in a shower stall and how difficult it is to clean?
    Q. I am thinking of installing travertine tiles in my bathroom shower and would like to know if there are any problems with this type of stone in a shower stall and how difficult it is to clean?A. ...
12. Restoration of Crema Marfil
    Q.  I have a new home (1 year old). I chose to have crema marfil marble installed in the master bath. The entire floor and the walk-in shower are crema marfil. Neither the installer or the ...
13. How do you wax hone finished travertine floors?
    Q. How do you wax hone finish travertine floors? A. We do not recommend waxing travertine floors or any other stone floor for the following reasons: Waxes are topical coatings which are much ...
14. Have you ever heard of Doctored Travertine?
    Q: In India, I have heard that Travertine stone is doctored by adding a substrate to the base of another hard cheaper stone. How can I know whether it is so without breaking it?A: Many of the blac ...
15. I have a travertine dining room table. What should I do to seal it and how should I clean it?
    Q. I have a travertine dining room table. What should I do to seal it and how should I clean it?Regarding sealing Travertine, check first to see if you require sealing of your travertine by spilli ...
16. Travertine Filling and Installation
    Q: I found a pile of travertine tile in my newly purchased house. It's not used anywhere in the house but would like to use it for a bathroom floor. Problem is, many of the tile have holes that go ...
17. Travertine stained with mud
    In response to your follow-up question, our patio travertine is directly on dirt. I will try a tile and natural stone cleaner as you suggested and hope for the best! Our travertine does have the w ...
18. What is the best way to clean unfilled travertine?
    Q: My unfilled, but sealed (with a lithofin product) travertine needs a good clean before resealing. What is the best technique for this? There is dirt in the holes, which is obviously worse ...
19. I just had my travertine floors installed last week, is honed finished, but I do not want a very glossy finish. How long does the enhancer last?
    Q. I just had my travertine floors installed last week, is honed finished, but I do not want a very glossy finish. How long does the enhancer last?A. How long the color enhancer lasts depends on h ...
20. What to do about holes in travertine tile
    Q. We had travertine tile installed 1 1/2 years ago and I had a hole open up and it is gradually getting bigger and now a 2nd hole has opened up too. Don't know what has caused it? Need to know ho ...