Again, wet with hot, clean water and then lightly sprinkle an abrasive cleaner (i.e, chlorine bleaching type household scouring cleanser) over wet stone, or put 1-2 handfuls into a pail of 2-3 gallons of hot clean water.

Using a scrubbing motion, mop marble surfaces with this solution (or with hot clean water if you are sprinkling cleaner directly on stone). Rinse with clean hot water and dry with mop or cloths. Power scrubbers can also be used for procedure.

A honed finish is a satin surface with relatively little light reflection. It is specified for floors, thresholds and other locations where presence of water might make a polished finish slippery, or where heavy traffic would wear off polished finish.

As a rule, honed finishes are more susceptible to soiling than polished finishes, because a honed surface is slightly more porous and absorptive than polished finish. However, honed finish is easier to restore because it will sustain harsher cleaning efforts.

Normal maintenance of honed finishes involves as-needed washing with clean water and mildly abrasive cleaners, which retain a pumice-type finish, while cleaners remove soils. There are thick liquid cleaners and chlorine-bleach type scouring powders commercially available.