Natural stone cleaning and sealing across Scottsdale
One city, published rates. $1.275/sqft cleaned after 15% off, from polished marble in an Old Town condo to travertine running through a Silverleaf great room.
Calls answered 7am to 8pm · same-day service usually available
Measure the stone areas and ring us. That square footage is your price.
Work out your own number
Measure the stone areas, length times width, and add them together. That total against the rate is the price, and you can do it before ringing anybody.
A 600 sqft travertine entry and hallway is $765 cleaned at the discounted rate, or $1,020 cleaned and clear sealed. A 1,200 sqft main level is $1,530 cleaned, $2,040 with clear seal.
Rough is fine. Knowing whether yours is a $700 job or a $2,000 one before you talk to anybody is the point, and it makes any other quote easy to check.
Find your part of the city
The stone differs enormously across Scottsdale, and so does what has already been done to it.
DC Ranch and Silverleaf · Troon and far north Scottsdale · McCormick Ranch and Gainey Ranch · Old Town Scottsdale · Grayhawk and Kierland · South Scottsdale
Scottsdale by what is on the floor
Travertine at scale
DC Ranch and Silverleaf. Very large continuous runs, frequently flat and in need of color enhancing, and the neighborhood where we find the most etching caused by somebody else's cleaning products.
Polished marble
Old Town condos and high-rise units. The least forgiving stone there is, because polish shows every etch immediately, and frequently in properties cleaned by people who were never told what it was.
Older stone with history on it
McCormick Ranch and Gainey Ranch. Thirty years of coatings, waxes and topical sealers layered up, where the soil is under the product rather than on it.
Family travertine
Grayhawk and Kierland. Sealed once when the house was built and never again, which the water test settles in five minutes.
Pool decks
Troon and the north. Where the deck is a bigger job than anything indoors. Its own page.
pH-neutral products, and no acid on stone ever
The single most important thing on this site, and the reason a stone floor needs a different company from a tile floor.
Acid etches marble, travertine and limestone on contact. Not over time, not with repeated exposure. On contact. It dissolves the calcium carbonate the stone is made of, and what you are left with is a dull patch where the surface used to be.
That damage does not undo. Cleaning will not lift it, sealer will not hide it, and the only route back is honing and polishing with diamond pads, which is refinishing work.
We use pH-neutral, stone-safe products. There is no version of this job where an acidic cleaner touches your floor.
It is worth asking anybody you get a quote from what they use, and treating vagueness as an answer. A great deal of the etching we find on Scottsdale stone was put there by somebody who cleaned it.
How we do it
What cleaning and sealing cannot fix
Being straight about this up front matters more on stone than on anything else, because the damage is permanent and expensive.
Etching is the dull spot where something acidic ate into the surface. Wine, citrus, vinegar, and a great many store-bought cleaners all cause it. It is damage to the stone rather than a stain sitting on it, so cleaning does not lift it and sealer does not conceal it.
Scratches and worn finish in traffic lanes are the same category. The surface itself has changed.
Fixing either means honing and polishing with diamond pads, which is refinishing work and not something we offer. We clean and seal. When what your floor actually needs is a refinisher, we will tell you that instead of taking the job. Full explanation here.
- Identify the stone and check the existing sealer. Travertine, marble, limestone and slate all behave differently, and the product that suits one can damage another. We also establish whether there is a sealer on there already and what condition it is in.
- Clean with solutions matched to that stone. pH-neutral throughout, lifting embedded soil and mineral out of both the stone and the grout without touching the surface itself.
- Seal, if you have chosen to. Clear to protect what is there, or color enhancing to deepen the natural color, plus grout color seal on the lines if you want that.
- Walk it together. We look at the finished floor with you before anything gets loaded out.
Cleaning always comes first. Sealing over soil traps it under the coating rather than protecting anything, which is exactly why these are priced as tiers rather than sealing offered on its own.
How often to reseal
Reseal every one to two years depending on the sealer and how much traffic the area takes.
There is a test that settles it without anybody's opinion. Put a few drops of water on the stone and wait five minutes. If it beads and sits there, the seal is working. If it soaks in and darkens the stone, the seal has worn through and the stone is absorbing everything else too.
Unsealed stone in this climate is the thing to avoid. Hard water leaves mineral that bonds into a porous surface, desert dust settles into it, and both get harder to remove the longer they sit.
Questions about service in Scottsdale
Do you cover all of Scottsdale?
Old Town through to Desert Mountain, at the same rates. No travel charge and no zone pricing.
Do you work outside Scottsdale?
No. Scottsdale only, which is why we already know a Silverleaf floor is likely travertine at scale and an Old Town condo is likely polished marble that shows etching immediately.
What is the minimum?
$150 per visit, roughly 118 sqft at the discounted cleaning rate.
Do you do commercial stone?
Yes, at the same rates. Larger areas are more efficient per foot because setup is the same either way.
Do you do refinishing?
No. Honing and polishing with diamond pads is a different trade, and we will tell you when that is what your floor needs rather than taking the job.
My neighborhood is not listed.
If the address is in Scottsdale we cover it. The area pages exist because the stone genuinely differs between them.
Calls answered 7am to 8pm · same-day service usually available
$1.275/sqft cleaned, anywhere in Scottsdale.