<\/p>\n \u201cWhy should I restore my stone when I can just seal it?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n It is a common misconception that sealers add shine to stone and will make your stone look like new. If you want your stone to look like new, you will need to call a professional restoration company like International Stoneworks <\/a>to re-polish or re-hone your stone with fine abrasives and compounds. Any shine you see will come from the stone itself, not a sealer or coating. We use impregnator sealers<\/a> that do not add shine; they just protect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, if you want a quick fix and you are a do-it-yourselfer. You can buy a topical sealer or wax<\/a> and apply it to the surface of the stone. This coating will cosmetically hide small imperfections such as etch marks and fine scratches. \u00a0Please note that a wax finish is not the same as a no-wax professional polishing system.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Myth: Sealing will change the color of my stone.<\/b><\/p>\n Typically, impregnator sealers<\/a> neither change the color of natural stone nor add shine. If you are sealing a polished limestone, travertine, marble, or granite, the impregnator will not change the color and will not add shine. However, if you are sealing a darker stone with a honed finish, the impregnator may slightly darken the color. For example, a completely honed black granite has a gray color to it naturally. When sealed, the honed granite can turn a darker gray. Honed, dark materials are very absorbent, so it is important to protect these stones with an impregnator sealer<\/a>, even if the color slightly darkens.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Myth: Sealing stops dirt from accumulating on the surface of my stone. If you have a textured stone floor such as a cross-cut travertine or a honed limestone, dirt can accumulate into the tiny pinholes and crevices. Sealing your stone won\u2019t stop that. When applied, impregnator sealers absorb into the stone and stop liquids like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Peacock](\"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peacock-Tiles-300x300.jpg\")
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