Stones Tips For Home and Garden

When laying bluestone pavers or tiles in your home, you may come across situations when you need to cut them in order to get the perfect fit. Cutting through natural stone, however, can be a difficult task, as the tiles are prone to splitting and chipping with even the slightest pressure. Use these instructions to ensure you get a professional finish with your stone: Step 1: Measure where you will need to make cuts on your bluestone tiles and mark out these lines on the face of the tiles using a metal square and a white crayon. Measure twice to avoid mistakes. Step 2: Set up the power cutter that you have rented from your local hardware store. Place a piece of scrap wood on the bed so that, once the blade has gone through the stone, it will go into the wood and not the bed of the cutter. Make sure that the water reservoir is filled. Step 3: Place the bluestone tile on top of the piece of wood. Then, set the cutter’s blade so that it will make an incision between a quarter a...

The charm and grace that is felt with granite sink is just rare to find anywhere else. However, slowly and gradually (due to continuous uses) this stone loses its beauty. They lose their shine, get stains and sometimes appear to change color. But, it is not hard to earn them back. Here is a step by step procedure to clean granite sinks. Just follow them and you will find your granite sink looking glowing for several years to come. Get a non-abrasive sponge or cloth and dip it in water. Squeeze it to get rid of extra water and make it damped. Put a small amount of mild liquid soap directly on wet sponge or cloth. Squeeze it to make some lather. Wipe the granite stone basin with the wet and soapy sponge/cloth thoroughly. Concentrate on the areas that have accumulated dirt or formed crystal out of water minerals. Rinse the sink thoroughly without leaving any traces of soap in the basin. Repeat the process until clean water flows out of the sink. Take a soft, dry cotton cloth to w...