How to Care for Your New Marble Counters in Your Lakeville Home

If you just had marble counters installed in your Lakeville home (or maybe you’ve had them for awhile), you might be wondering how you can keep them looking brand-new. Minneapolis Granite fabricates and installs marble counters; Lakeville is just one of the many towns we work in around the Twin Cities area. And we have plenty of suggestions on how to keep your Lakeville marble counters looking like they were just installed.

About once a week, take a soft microfiber cloth and gently dust the counters. If you want to give them a more thorough cleaning, you can take a clean damp cloth and use a pH-neutral cleaner that is specifically formulated for stone, and be sure to wipe the counters dry. A few big no-nos when it comes to cleaning marble counters: do not use regular, everyday cleaning products and do not use abrasive cleaners. (They can scratch the surface of your counters.) When you are cooking or preparing food, do not leave acidic foods on the surface (citrus, vinegar, etc.) because they can also damage marble counters.

If you spill anything on your Lakeville counters, especially food or liquids that are known to stain, like coffee, clean them up as soon as possible. Use a damp cloth, but try not to scrub too hard because this could also scratch the marble counters.

On a regular basis, you should seal your marble counters. You will know it’s time to do it when water stops beading up on the surface of the counters. Sealing is one of the best ways you can keep your marble counters looking like new.

When you’re ready to have new marble counters installed in your Lakeville home, give Minneapolis Granite a call at (612) 822-3135 or contact us online!

A History of Marble: Burnsville and Beyond

We here at Minneapolis Granite fabricate and install marble counters. Burnsville is one of the Twin Cities areas that takes advantage of our services. We gave a brief history of marble and marble counters, and now we’d like to add a bit more detail to that history.

The Ancient Greeks built much of their civilization on marble and marble counters. Greece contains the largest and widest of varieties of marble found in the world. After awhile, the rest of the world caught on to the Greeks’ beautiful marble-making abilities and started importing Greek marble to create their own monuments, statues, buildings and marble counters. At first, white marble was the most popular, but soon enough the colored marble counters caught on.

White Pentelicon marble is known as some of the world’s purest and most precious marble, and it is quarried in the Penteli mountain region just north of Athens. It is also known as “Marmo Pentelico” or “Marmo Greco Fino.” The columns at the temple at Artemis at Ephesus (which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World) are made of multicolored marble.

Minneapolis Granite takes a great deal of pride in our ability to fabricate and install marble and marble counters in any Burnsville home. Granted, we don’t get our marble counters from the Penteli mountains, but the marble we use for our marble counters is the finest quality we can get our hands on. We pass that quality onto our Burnsville customers to help make their homes a thing of beauty.

When you are ready to have marble counters installed in your Burnsville home, just give us a call at (612) 822-3135 or contact us online. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have about marble counters in Burnsville!