2015 is here and it's starting off with a bang!

Goodbye 2014 and Hello 2015!  We are here and thriving - last year we had the privilege of working with a lot of new clients and were happy to reconnect with familiar home owners we enjoy as well! 

We were sad to say goodbye to one of our favorite techs who left the island, but happy to welcome some new team mates who are doing an awesome job making our clients rave.  We're so fortunate to have techs who care and who have developed the skill to make our work shine, and the eye to keep our results at such a high levels.  We get frequent feedback from our clients who love our guys and their work.

Our favorite part of this business is still capturing the before and afters that make our customers happy.  Although Lisa has had her hands too full lately to blog example projects, we're starting to get a stock pile of pictures just waiting to be shared.

If we've worked with you in the past, we'd love your reviews and comments..  

 

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Travertine Before



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Travertine Before

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Stone Restoration - Marble, Travertine, Granite, Slate, Limestone

Choosing a stone professional to care for and maintain your natural stone is a worthy investment.

All natural stone, whether marble, granite, travertine, slate, or one of the many other types of stone need ongoing care. The National Home Builders Association asserts that you can get a lifetime of beauty and reliability out of stone that is properly cared for.

Proper care includes sealing stone regularly. Proper preparation and choosing and applying the right professional sealer takes time and experience. Learning to perfect an even finish and remove damage takes even more experience.

Waxing and coating natural stone can be a costly endeavor. Those types of finish wear faster and more obviously than a professional polishing. Smearing, smudging, or ugly traffic patterns are more likely with waxes or coatings. Those types of quick fixes may also trap moisture within the stone and compromise the integrity of the stone in the long run.

Maintaining natural stone showers, floors and countertops properly will prevent damage and prolong their life and beauty.

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Stone Floor Deep Clean and Seal

Natural Stone Floors are porous and require on-going maintenance to preserve their beauty and integrity. The National Association of Home Builders expect natural stone, particularly granite, marble and slate to last approximately 100 years with proper maintenance.

This photo shows flooring that had a lot of dirt and deposit buildup deep cleaned out of the stone flooring.

What causes discoloration and damage to stone flooring and surfaces?

• Improper care and lack of maintenance




• Liquids and spills that are not wiped up




• Acidic or Alkaline products and cleaners




• Too much time between resealing




• Grit and dirt sanding a wear pattern




• Soap residue




• Improper stain removal

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Article Why Use a Professional? link: http://eurotechmaui.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-use-pro.html

Article Should I Use a Coating? link: http://eurotechmaui.blogspot.com/2010/12/should-i-put-topical-sealer-on-my-stone.html

Floor Care Tips Here: Floor Care Tips

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Marble Granite Travertine Tile Grout - Cleaning Polishing and Sealing by EUROTECH

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Professional Stone Care

Tile & Grout Cleaning

• Cleaning



• Sealing



• Polishing



• Restoration and Resurfacing

Inspections - Maintenance Programs - Consultations

Marble and Natural Stone require ongoing specialized care to protect and preserve its beauty and lifespan. Stone Care professionals are trained in the best methods and stay on top of the latest products and technology to promote natural stone service life.

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Granite & Marble Counters Water Spot Removal and Sealing

Around sink faucets, a white buildup of hard water stains can be difficult to remove without damaging marble or granite countertops.

Eurotech Maui is offering a cost effective Deposit Removal Service. Starting at $75, the deposits will be removed from kitchen or bathroom faucets and a touch up sealing around the highest use area 4" around the sink will be performed.

Around cooktops, oil is natural stone's worst enemy. Add-on total cleaning, preparation and full saturation resealing with a permanent bond penetrating 10 year sealer, or polishing to get your countertops looking beautiful and fully preserved and protected.

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Granite Counters - What kind of care?

One of the best things you can do for your granite countertop is getting a professional grade sealer applied.

Granite counters are acid resistant, dense and durable. In our stone care experience, they are the best choice for kitchen counters for these reasons.

What are the things to watch out for?

Your Installer or Contractor probably put a medium to high grade sealer on the counters when it was installed. Ask what the product is and how long it is expected to last.

Within two years of installation, many Granite Counter Owners will opt to have a polish and reseal or at least a clean and reseal. The reason is this, if your sealer fails, oil can be literally sucked into the millions of microscopic pores and capillaries of granite and leave an oil stain that may not be removable. This is the most common type of granite damage besides spalling. One greasy jar of cooking oil left on the counter overnight could be a very expensive mistake. Regular resealing will prevent this type of damage to the countertops.

If your counter top darkens when a wet cloth sits on the surface for a couple hours, get it resealed right away.  The granite is susceptible to oil and water based staining.

What else can I do to help my granite last longer and look better?

The water in Maui leaves quite a bit of scaly white deposits around faucets. This can be removed and the sink edges sealed at the same time. Eurotech Maui offers an affordable maintenance program that includes an annual inspection, bead test, deposit (white stains) removal at the faucets and resealing of the 4" around the sink edge.

Professional Sealing Article.

Why Use a Professional Stone Care Expert?.

Recommended Service and Maintenance.

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Stone Care and Tile Cleaning

This is some recent stone care and tile cleaning work in Lahaina and Kihei, Maui. Both floors were well taken care of, but a service level clean and seal definitely brought them up a notch.

Floors, Showers and Counters can all benefit from a Maintenance Program. Regular cleaning and service resealing protects and beautifies stone, tile and grout.

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What is the recommended Service and Maintenance for Tile and Natural Stone?

See our articles on:

Benefits of Tile & Stone Maintenance
FAQs - What kind of sealer and when?

FLOORS - MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

• Interior and Exterior Flooring Maintenance Program
  SERVICE CLEANING & SEALING - Always start with a Service Level of cleaning. This means a deep cleaning that pulls out deposits and discoloration of stone, tile and grout - properly preparing the surface for sealing. It takes several steps of scrubbing and agitation and pressure extraction and drying to get the floors ready for sealing. This should be performed every 2-5 years. The determining factor for frequency is a bead test. Check your sealer condition on the grout lines or natural stone with a bead test in multiple areas, which shows if your sealer has deteriorated or if it is still protecting the floors. If water does not clearly bead, get a service performed by a professional.
  
  LIGHT MAINTENANCE CLEANING - May be performed every 6-12 months and may only require traffic area light scrub and a pressure extraction. The sealer should still be intact. This level of service is for floors which have only a surface level of deposits and are on a maintenance program. The light maintenance cleanings will delay the need for service level cleanings.

SHOWERS - MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

• SERVICE LEVEL CLEANING & SEALING - Start with this level of service and then begin a maintenance program. The soap scum and deposits will be removed and surfaces deep cleaned. The grout integrity may be reviewed and skim coated. The grout may be treated for discoloration. The shower may be polished or rehoned (if natural stone). The shower walls and floors will be properly dried and resealed with a breatheable penetrating sealer. This service should be performed approximately every two - four years, depending on daily cleaning practices, maintenance, and shower and sealer condition. We recommend stain-proofing (permanent bonding 10 year sealer) tiled shower floors.



• LIGHT CLEANING - This maintenance level of service may or may not include the walls but always includes the floor. It will involve a cleaning and touch up sealing of the shower floor, and may include deposit removal on the walls. We recommend this step to be performed annually as it will delay the need for costlier service level cleanings.
  

COUNTERS - MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

• Cleaning, polishing and resealing of countertops may be performed every 3-5 years.



• Annual maintenance on kitchen granite may include removal of the buildup around the faucets and a touch up sealer around the sink areas and/or the range.

Professional Tile and Stone Care - An Investment that pays

Why is Professionally Maintaining your Natural Stone and Tile Cost Effective?

1. Preserves and Extends the lifespan of the material

• Proper preparation and sealing will prevent staining

2. Prevents future costly repairs and restorations

• Much like auto maintenance, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Regular cleanings and sealings are like doing your oil changes. Maybe you can get away with skipping it, but that may cost much more in the long run.
• Trained tile and stone professionals will use the correct agents, sealers, and process. For example, marble, ceramic tile, and granite have differing limits for withstanding pressure cleaning. To much pressure can cause damage. Porcelain tile, marble and granite would require different products and methods. The wrong cleaner may not clean or could cause damage. Use a stone and tile professional.
• Using too much pressure on unsanded grout can cause grout erosion.

3. Saves time and labor - makes cleaning easier

• Unsealed surfaces hold deposits differently than properly sealed surfaces. Treated stone and grout makes daily cleaning quicker and easier.

4. Prevents purchasing unnecessary cleaning products


5. Makes your rental property more desirable and may have tax benefits (see below).*

• May Provide Tax Benefits: "A repair keeps your rental property in good condition and is a deductible expense in the year that you pay for it. Repairs include painting, fixing a broken toilet and replacing a faulty light switch. Improvements on the other hand, add value to your property and are not deductible when you pay for them. You must recover the cost of improvements by depreciating the expense over your property's life expectancy. Therefore, from a tax standpoint, you should make repairs as the problems arise instead of waiting until they multiply and require renovations."* See FULL article by George D. Lambert at http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/06/rentalowner.asp *We do not provide tax advice. Ask your accountant about qualifying repairs and tax benefits.

Travertine - Marble - Granite Polishing Before and After

We arrived to the Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii luxury villa in the morning. The travertine countertops in the master and guest bathrooms had a mild to moderate amount of wear and tear. Lance performed a 3 step deep cleaning, polish and reseal to remove the water deposits and light etching and wear on the travertine surface. Bathroom and kitchen counters often have waterspotting and calcium buildup around the faucets and sink edges.

This photo above shows the before and after of the polishing. The travertine was already cleaned and prepared. The left is before polishing and the right is after the polishing. Notice the detail in the reflection of the light fixture comparing the unpolished left side to the polished right side.

Most clients opt to deep clean and reseal for protection. It removes all the buildup that won't come out with daily cleaning. And once the surface is cleaned and prepared, it can be resealed to protect and preserve the life of the natural stone.

This particular client opted for a high polish finish, that added another step to the process. It looked shiny and new when the clean, polish and sealing were complete.