When businesses list their assets, they typically don't put flooring at the top of the list. Or even in the Top 10. Yet marble flooring in corporate centers, retail stores, and other business locations is a valuable asset that adds luxury and dignity to any property. Marble flooring can easily lose its value as a company asset if it is improperly cleaned, maintained, or left ignored altogether. In high-traffic areas like building lobbies or public spaces, daily cleaning is recommended. Pr...

Marble is one of the most luxurious surface materials for homes, businesses, and installations. But it requires special handling, especially during installation. When you use marble for your countertop, wall covering, flooring, or other surfaces, it requires more reinforcement than materials like wood, Formica, laminate, or even granite. That's because as a dense stone, it weighs more. And that additional weight may be too much for standard bracing found in cabinets, floors, and other are...

At Love Marble, we service, maintain, and repair marble. But we also do installations in homes, businesses, and even public spaces. The challenge is that marble installations can often take a long time. Depending on the complexity of the project, installing marble can take anywhere from a few hours to several days. Plus, it usually has to be coordinated with other contractors so that it is installed in the proper sequence. As a result, it's often a good idea to schedule your marble instal...

There are lots of home improvement projects that you can do on your own. Things like painting, simple plumbing repairs, or even installing electrical can be done safely and efficiently with a little research and practice. But caring for marble isn’t in the DIY category. While it’s a very attractive and luxurious building material, it’s also very temperamental, not to mention expensive. Even the smallest mistake can cause serious, permanent damage to marble countertops, flooring, or ...

Spring is right around the corner. And with it comes the annual deep cleaning of houses, businesses, and just about everything. If you have marble surfaces like floors, countertops, wall coverings, or even statues or other decorative pieces, it's important to give them a good cleaning at least once per year. Yes, your marble needs spring cleaning, too! Winter Blues Why does everything seem to get dirtier during the winter? A lot of it has to do with the fact that buildings tend to be cl...

Marble counters, floors, and other features that are worn, damaged, or aged are less attractive than newly installed marble. But replacing marble can often be prohibitively expensive. In some instances, it makes more sense to simply repair marble. Whether to repair or replace less than perfect marble is often a difficult question to answer. But the marble care experts at Love Marble have the experience, knowledge, and equipment to give you an honest, straightforward answer. Money, Time, ...

One question marble owners often ask the experts at Love Marble is, "Do I need to get marble sealing for the marble surfaces in my home or business?" The answer depends on a number of different factors, including where the marble is located, how it is used, and what risk factors there are for staining. Marble sealing is a process in which the pores in the marble are filled with a sealant that helps prevent potentially staining substances from being absorbed into the rock. Love Marble offe...

Besides being attractive and decorative, marble is one of the most durable building materials you can use in your home or business. Marble flooring and fixtures installed in high-traffic places like public buildings or train stations are still being used decades after it was originally put in place. But even marble can start to show signs of wear and fatigue. When your marble starts to show wear patterns, becomes stained, or gets chipped or cracked, it may be time to consider replacement....

Winter is coming. And in the Northeast, that means low temperatures, semi-permanent clouds, and a good amount of snow. But it doesn't have to mean waking up every morning to freezing cold floors. Heated marble floors in your bathroom, kitchen or other areas of your home mean you never have to worry about starting your day by stepping onto a freezing cold floor. One of the biggest drawbacks of indoor stone flooring is winter temperatures. But radiant floor heating and marble flooring are t...

In luxury homes today, marble kitchen countertops are practically essential. But to truly distinguish your home to next-level greatness, consider adding marble to your bathroom as well. Marble bathtubs, bathroom counters, and even floors and walls bring the luxury quotient of your to legend level. Bathroom marble is luxury on steroids. Legendary Luxury Marble bathrooms are the kind of design features in the homes of billionaires, international celebrities, and presidential palaces. Thin...