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How Vinegar Damages Natural Stone Flooring

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When you buy natural stones for building floor, wall, or any other surface in your home, your tile supplier and tiler will always suggest that you must not clean your natural stone floors and walls with vinegar, acid, or vinegar- or acid-based cleansing solutions. When you ask them why, they will tell you that vinegar and acid will damage the stone without going much into the technicalities. This blog explains exactly how these chemicals affect your stone flooring, apart from recommending the right cleansing solution for your natural stone flooring – What Happens When Marble and Vinegar Come into Contact? To under why this happens we must understand how natural stones form. Natural stones form naturally under the earth’s surface and are excavated from rocks and mountains found at different locations on the globe. For example: marble is found in Turkey, Italy, India, and many other countries in the world. Since they are natural, there are porous and flakey. Marble, especially,