Having Natural Stone Installed In Your Property - The Pitfalls
This last year has seen a large increase in the number of people
having natural stone, marble, granite, limestone, sandstone or
slate fitted into their homes either as work surfaces or as
flooring. No man made product can rival the beauty of well
presented natural stone with its myriad of colours and patterns
which are unique to your individual stone.
With this increased interest in returning to natural stone
products has come an avalanche of products to clean, shine and
seal the stones. Importers, tile retailers, builders and
chemical firms have all jumped on the band wagon and see big
profits in natural stone. Unfortunately it would seem that very
few of these companies have any understanding of the products
they are selling or fitting or advising customers to purchase.
In the past most of our work was concerned with restoring old
marble, granite or limestone but increasingly we are getting
called out to deal with brand new tiles which have developed
problems.
Some of these problems are;