Care and Maintenance for Sioux

When you install a quartzite surface, what do you recommend to the consumer as a care and maintenance program? For example, if you finished up a job installing a Sioux quartzite surface and the customer asked how to care for it, what would you recommend? When it comes to recommending a care and maintenance routine for Sioux, or any other quartzite countertop surface for that matter, we have a recommendation. We will examine it in this article. For a discussion of why sealing quartzite can be challenging checkout out article entitled: Meeting the Challenge of Sealing Quartzite. Now, on to the topic at hand.

Cutting Sioux Quartzite Wet

Cutting natural quartzite, including Sioux is many times done using a wet environment. Using a wet saw to make cuts in a Sioux quartzite slab is beneficial for cutting, but it defeats the purpose of keeping liquid out of the pores of the stone. Therefore, employing a method for keeping water out of the pores of the stone makes sense.

Sioux Quartzite Care & Maintenance

When thinking of a care and maintenance routine for Sioux quartzite surfaces, one might immediately associate the task with caring for the slab as a countertop in the home after installation. Yet, in the home after installation, or in the shop prior to installation, it makes perfect sense to use an effective sealer on Sioux quartzite countertops. Even though sealing stone does not make it stain-proof, it does increase the stone's ability to resist the dirts and liquids that can discolor and mar natural Sioux quartzite surfaces. Many water and oil based liquids in a shop or in a household can make their way into the pores and stain a stone. So, applying a quartzite stone sealer is an easy way to increase the resistance of the slab against these liquids.

Quartzite Care & Maintenance Recommended for Sioux

A question that is sometimes found to be on the minds of professionals and consumers alike is, "Is sealing Sioux quartzite required?" The answer to that question would depend on how much importance the one asking the question puts on getting the very best results. Why? Because not every single quartzite slab that is made into a countertop will be sealed either correctly or often enough. By the same token though, those countertops will not have the highest level of stain resistance either.

The NSI is a trade association representing every aspect of the natural stone industry. Its current membership at the time of this writing exceeds 2,000 members in over 50 countries. It serves as the authoritative source for safety and technical standards and information regarding the use of natural stone. What does it say regarding sealers?

The NSI offers training on sealers and application thereof, which implies the importance of using sealer to improve stone's resistance to water and oil based liquids. Additionally, we recommend that a care and maintenance routine be used by consumers after installation. Doing so gives the owner of the stone the best performance opportunity.

As we have discussed, Sioux quartzite, as well as other quartzite benefits from having a regular routine that includes sealer application. Keeping water out if the pores of any natural stone improves the appearance of that particular stone. In fact the lighter the material, or the darker the material, the easier a discoloration from water could happen. For this reason and others, it is good to practice the techniques we have discussed in this article when working with or on Sioux quartzite.