Make your marble stairs shine with simple home methods

Marble staircases are a very precious feature in a home, and it gives the environment a sense of elegance. They do cost more than many other staircase options, but are also very durable and resistant to everyday wear and tear in a truly unique way. However, they also get dirty like any other surface we frequently walk on, and sometimes just washing them fails to give them the shine they deserve.

In fact, marble looks even more beautiful when it is polished, and to get that finish you have to choose the right methods and products. In addition to the specific ones for marble that you can find in the stores, you can resort to some DIY remedies, which are effective but also delicate enough not to ruin a material that with a product that is too aggressive and ends up damaging the luster of the marble.

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To wash and degrease marble, you can use a little dish soap in a bucket of hot. A good alternative, which cleans and leaves the marble shiny is a combination of Marseille soap and a little baking soda, which is not so abrasive that it will end up ruining the marble but will manage to remove the streaks of dirt that soap alone cannot get rid of. For every liter of water you will need two tablespoons of Marseille soap and two tablespoons of baking soda.

• If you have already cleaned, or you just need to dust the marble's surface, and you also want to polish it, try hydrogen peroxide: you can use it undiluted, scrubbing the surface with a sponge or brush and rinsing it off thoroughly afterwards.
• One of the traditional methods to try when polishing marble is to use gypsum powder (gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate): you need to sprinkle it on an already perfectly clean surface and then rub it over the surface gently with circular movements using a suede cloth that you will be slightly moistened. Then remove everything with another dry cloth (a microfibre cloth is fine) until all the cleaning residue disappears and reveals the polished surface.

A useful tip: if by chance on the stairs there are some stubborn stains, for example, yellow stains that ruin the texture and look of the rest of the step and you want to clean them off, but none of the above methods work, some users recommend using a pumice stone - which is certainly abrasive, but usually not too much. In any case, it is a method that does scratch the surface, so it is always better to try this method out first on an inconspicuous corner of the staircase and check what kind of result it generates. To use the pumice, rub it gently over the affected area, then rinse and washoff with a little mild soap.

Great job!