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Las Vegas Handyman Says Seal Your Granite Countertops

  
  
  

graniteAs a Las Vegas handyman, I get asked a lot of questions about houses. A customer recently asked me about stains on her granite countertop.

The stain on her countertop was right around her soap dispenser, and it was a good sized stain…probably a foot or so in diameter. I asked her if she ever sealed her granite. She said “What?”. Every time she washed her hands and went to pump soap she would drip water on the granite. The water was absorbing into the stone. Once she stopped doing that, the stain disappeared after about 10 days. So the message her was to seal the countertop.

The first thing to do is to clean the countertop. There are products made for both cleaning and sealing granite, and both can be found any most home centers. The packaging will give detailed instructions, but generally both are spray-on and wipe-off products.

Once you have cleaned the granite, you should apply 2 coats of the sealer. Again, you spray this on, let it sit for a period of time, and wipe it off. Then repeat. You know if the granite is sealed if you can drip water on it and it beads up like water on a freshly waxed car. There isn’t a lot of elbow grease involved which makes it nice.

You usually will need to seal the granite once or twice per year, but check on the bottle for recommendations.

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