5 Ways to Save Your Water Damaged Worktops

5 Ways to Save Your Water Damaged Kitchen Worktops

So, you’ve spent your hard earned money on some beautiful natural stone worktops that are sure to impress anyone who walks into your home. BUT you just can't seem to get rid of the hard water stains that keep cropping up? Hard water stains can be a real eye-sore, not to mention they’re almost impossible to get out…(almost).

Thankfully we at Pena Marble have a few trade secrets to scare with you… here are a few ways to fix your water damaged worktops.

Make a Baking Soda Paste

Whilst we would never suggest using something super abrasive on your precious worktops, using a light abrasive scrub can really do the trick when it comes to hard water damage… just mix a bit of baking soda with some water and lighting scrub over the area, this might just be the miracle fix you’ve been looking for all along.

Use a Specialised Cleaner

Failing that, you might find yourself needing to call in reinforcements. The reinforcements being a specialised hard water remover. Sometimes your household kitchen items might not cut it - and that’s ok! There are some great hard water stain removers out there that’ll be sure to take all of the elbow grease out of the job and leave your counters in sparkling condition!

Act Fast

So this one pretty much goes without saying, but definitely tackle spills and stains BEFORE they set and become a lot nastier to tackle. Leaving puddles of water (or any other food or drink) will surely increase the chance of developing hard water stains. Not to mention many foods - especially those on the acidic site can eat away at the resin on your counter and cause a fair few problems…

Use a Poultice

A poultice is always handy in these situations. It’s a liquid or chemical cleanser that can be left on the stain and covered in some clingfilm. Give it a day or say and VOILA! Often times this does the trick and that pesky hard water stain has simply melted away…

Use a Razor

Now, we know this might seem a bit extreme. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Use a razor to lightly… and I mean LIGHTLY scratch at the surface of your hard water stain. With hard water stains on laminate worktops be sure not to scratch the stone worktop or the resin protecting it. Once the surface of hard water has been removed, you’re ready to go in with some of the gentler approaches listed above.

So there you have it! 5 ways to ger rid of those stubborn and unsightly hard water stains. Whether you’ve just purchased your new stone worktops, or some TLC has been a long time coming, we hope these tips and tricks will keep your worktops in sparkling condition for years to come.