The Stone Blog http://www.heavensentfloorcare.com/blog Resource for natural stone and tile & grout cleaning in Texas Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:36:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.heavensentfloorcare.com/blog/238/ http://www.heavensentfloorcare.com/blog/238/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:36:03 +0000 Ken http://www.heavensentfloorcare.com/blog/?p=238

Tile and Grout Cleaning, Grout Sealing, Grout Staining Dallas

Heaven Sent Floor Care takes pride in beautifying your tile and grout and natural stone. Whether you have marble, granite, travertine, or slate, we can hone, polish, or anything…

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Sealing Limestone: 4 Tips and Mistakes to Avoid

Limestone tiles can add a distinctive look to any floor, wall or fireplace, but sealing limestone is key to ensure durability in the years to come. Here are…

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One of the more frequent questions we are asked is how do we maintain our travertine tile floors (or other surfaces). There is a great deal of misinformation on the Internet, that given at Floor Stores, Home Repair Box Stores,…

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You have most likely seen Emperador Dark Marble somewhere. It’s all over the place, very popular for bathrooms as well as furniture pieces. I don’t know if I’ve ever walked into a furniture showroom without seeing this marble on some…

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While this is not new we have discovered many of our clients are not aware that many companies in the “restoration” of natural stone use the process of Crystallization (aka virtification). One of them is a major franchise service. There…

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Allow me to provide you with a more descriptive analysis of the term “crystallization”. The term “crystallization” is defined as the process by which a substance takes the form of a crystal structure. Most minerals are crystal shaped. The term…

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Saltillo restoration was performed for a client of ours in Irving. Ms Layton had extensive damage as a result of water damage from broken plumbing. As the pictures illustrate it was in very bad shape. We initially stripped it…

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As with most issues there is good news and bad news. The good news is when we have been in contact with our affiliate stone restoration associates around the country, quite a few of them have related that local franchise…

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In our previous posts we have provided you with the facts about crystallization and the imminent dangers. In this post we would like to show you a small sample of some floors we have encountered that have fallen victim to…

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