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Explore common questions about marble and natural stone restoration at Tropicana Restoration. Find tips, techniques, and solutions to maintain and renovate your surfaces with our specialized team.

Most of our restoration process is water based, minimizing dust and ensuring a cleaner work environment.

Absolument! We work by areas, you can stay anywhere in the house as long as you aren’t in the area that we are working on.

Yes! As long as they are not in the areas that we are working on.

Besides using the protection tape on all baseboards, our workers will protect any remaining furniture that might get dirty during the process.

We use a protection tape 2ft high that will make sure that neither your walls nor your baseboards will get any damages.

We will move all the furniture necessary! However, we don’t move appliances, any small items that might break, and we don’t disconnect any cables.

Most sealers today are penetrating sealers. They saturate into the stone and help repel moisture. This allows routine cleaning to be performed without the stone getting wet, leaving floors less slippery and ready to use. Although sealing is recommended to facilitate maintenance, these sealers do not coat the stone. This assures a natural finish without streaks. Caution must be used, however, to avoid contact with acidic substances including lemon juice, tomato sauce and many harsh cleaners, as contact with marble and limestone will etch and dull the finish.

Although sealers dry to the touch within an hour of application, we recommend that freshly sealed marble and granite be allowed to fully dry and ‘cure’ prior to the introduction of water. This may in fact increase the life of the sealed marble or granite.

We recommend our own Marble Safe Stone Cleaner for everyday cleaning of all-natural stone. We use it on every job, every day. If we could find a better product, we would certainly use it.

This depends entirely on the traffic and wear at your installation. As a rule of thumb, annual ‘check-ups’ are recommended to keep track of the condition of the stone, and to minimize the need for a full restoration project.