Cleaning Marble Stoops

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Cleaning marble stoops. At local gift shop hometown girl you can buy your own marble step cleaning kit the kit includes a pumice stone bag of bon ami powder cleanser and instructions although you can easily assemble your own at any well stocked hardware store. These stoops are affordable choices to replace marble steps that have not weathered the. Aubrey bodine 1906 1970 baltimore city life museum collection maryland historical society b360 2 doing much stoop sitting this summer. The stoops on the first two houses my parents lived in were marble.

People all along the small block we lived on took pride in how clean and shiny their stoops were. Above pictured left is a closeup of marble steps before restoration pictured center the traditional steps rowhouse after marble step restoration pictured on right is a closeup of marble steps after restoration. 1930 photograph by a. While the rowhomes erected were kept affordable for the working class the marble steps offered that tou mar 12 2018 if it s all about making a good first impression what better way to start than with the perfect stoop.

These steps are made from brick or prefabricated concrete. The front marble steps or stoops as they are known are part of the tradition and culture of baltimore. Of course you have probably seen non marble steps in and around baltimore. The stoops were scrubbed with hard bristled brushes and really did shine.