Bathroom stone selection skills

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people are increasingly pursuing luxury and high-end decorative effects in their home decoration. Gradually, the use of natural stone in home decoration has become a fashion, and its application range has gradually expanded to the bathroom. And the decor of the bathroom.

Bathroom stone selection

Due to the different preferences of homeowners, and the variety of textures and textures of stone, the use of color materials in bathroom materials is very diverse, including marble, limestone, granite, sandstone, slate, quartz, etc. Wait. However, the main use of bathroom stone is marble and granite. (However, due to concerns about the radioactivity of granite, the use of granite has begun to decrease.)

Nowadays, people generally prefer to use plain or solid or simple stone to decorate the floor and wall of the bathroom. The rich marble is used to decorate the countertop of the washstand, which adds a touch of elegance to the bathroom.

Marble is also called metamorphic or recrystallized limestone. True marble is a calcite metamorphic rock with a crystalline structure. Most of the marble is derived from geological changes of limestone. Its main components are calcite and calcium carbonate, and the Mohs hardness is about 4.5. Therefore, its shortcomings are soft, acid and alkali resistant, poor weathering resistance, easy to absorb oil, water and other liquids, and are easily scratched, not wearable, and almost all cleaning and stains containing acid and alkali will be Damage to the marble, a little longer to stay, the marble is damaged and loses its luster.

Therefore, the marble used in the bathroom should be made of harder material and higher density. Try to avoid using marble with high softness and high water absorption. Bathroom marble is best to choose polished surface processing, and must be treated before use. This can protect the stone better and is easier to clean, and the marble paving is suitable for vertical surface paving. Light-colored stone is less resistant to mild soapy water than darker stone, so it is not recommended to use green serpentine and black marble in the bathroom and bathroom, so the stone surface is less likely to be contaminated. some.