This is a solution we "stumbled" across and it worked extremley well.
We had a fireplace installed in purbeck stone. The installer recommended that he had purbeck marble plinths made to measure after the fireplace was built. We took his advice and the end result was very good.
As he left, he threw a comment over his shoulder "You really need to seal the marble plinths". Asked him why and he said that if a glass of red wine or a pepsi was spilt, it would stain the marble for ever. He advised we just kept polishing them with furniture polish with beeswax, e.g. Pledge or similar.
We tried that and the furniture polish just kept soaking in.
Hit on the brainwave of getting a large lump of solid beeswax from the DIY store, melting it with a hot air gun/stripper and spreading it over the marble with a scraper. As it cooled and solidified, scraped off excess (moved excess over to melt on the next area) and then buffed it all with polishing rags.
End result was superb. Sealed all the little pinholes and left a glass-like finish. Nothing would ever go through it short of acid.
We had a fireplace installed in purbeck stone. The installer recommended that he had purbeck marble plinths made to measure after the fireplace was built. We took his advice and the end result was very good.
As he left, he threw a comment over his shoulder "You really need to seal the marble plinths". Asked him why and he said that if a glass of red wine or a pepsi was spilt, it would stain the marble for ever. He advised we just kept polishing them with furniture polish with beeswax, e.g. Pledge or similar.
We tried that and the furniture polish just kept soaking in.
Hit on the brainwave of getting a large lump of solid beeswax from the DIY store, melting it with a hot air gun/stripper and spreading it over the marble with a scraper. As it cooled and solidified, scraped off excess (moved excess over to melt on the next area) and then buffed it all with polishing rags.
End result was superb. Sealed all the little pinholes and left a glass-like finish. Nothing would ever go through it short of acid.
