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Beautiful Engineered Stone Benchtops from Kitchen Mania

Friday 19 January 2018, 3:15PM

By Beckie Wright

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One of Kitchen Mania’s most popular benchtops is engineered stone, which, apart from its good looks and durability, requires very little maintenance to keep the surface looking like new. However, they have a few tips on how to take care of your engineered stone benchtop. For everyday routine cleaning, the Kitchen Mania team recommend the use of E-Stone's specialty every day care products that are designed specifically and exclusively for cleaning stone. They also assist in protecting the surface from staining. Alternatively warm soapy water (containing a mild detergent) and a damp cloth can be used, or a quality spray and wipe type cleaner.

However, Kitchen Mania warn that, before the use of any cleaning product outside of E-Stone’s product range, you should check that the product does not contain trichlorethane, methylene chloride or high levels of alkaline/pH. Should the surface be accidentally exposed to any of these damaging products, the bench should be rinsed immediately with water to neutralise the effect.

Engineered Stone will tolerate brief exposures to moderately hot temperatures; however prolonged direct contact with or radiated heat from very hot pots can cause thermal shock, discolouration or damage. For removal of these or for a thorough clean, Kitchen Mania can recommend and supply the correct product. When scrubbing the surface they recommend using 3MTM ScotchbriteTM Non- Scratch All-Purpose Scrubbers. These can be used without damaging the stone.

To remove adhered materials like food, gum and nail polish, the excess should first be scraped away with a sharp blade. If there are any grey metal marks on the surface, a mild detergent will remove them. Household bleach can generally be used as an effective cleaner to remove stubborn marks, but because some products are considerably stronger than others they recommend their Brand of cleaning products.

Engineered Stone like all stone is similar to glass, and like a glass table top, if you hit the edge with something hard with enough force, you can damage the edge, so you need to take care around the sink when washing cast iron pans etc.

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