cleaning a worktop

jrhartley said:

does anyone know how to clean the horrible stuff thats supposed to resemble marble on kitchen worktops- is there a secret formula apart from a lot of elbow grease ?

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If you clean it daily it's much easier to maintain. Real marble tains easy so if you have a spill clean immediately. Ivory Liquid dish soap is the best cleaner to use as it leaves no residue, is gentle but still cuts the grease.

jrhartley said:

its the reconstituted stuff with a roughish surface

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Are you talking about the laminated stuff that resembles formica? Muriatic acid will most certainly remove the shine from that :cheeky:. Or are you talking about the chipped stone stuff that resembles unpolished granite? I inherited a worktop of the latter in the first house we bought here and changed it immediately because I couldn't distinguish between the black flecks and ants. The laminated tops respond to washing up liquid & water, though, and you can use a gentle scourer, NOT heavy duty wire wool. You could also try using a paste of bicarb of soda with a couple of drops of chloro or alternatively a metal polish which isn't too abrasive.

In which case disregard my previous advice. I'm not licenced on chipped stone - I got rid of it as soon as I possibly could.

you need to grind it down with a polidor and then buff it with a different disk to shine. it is similar to terrazo. you can also seal it with a concrete sealer from 8a.