Marks on new quartz worktop

[JessieMcJessie]

We paid handsomely for a lovely new quartz worktop when we did our kitchen in the summer. I thought it was meant to be very durable and hard-wearing but marks like the ones pictured have started to appear- the surface is marbles but hopefully you can see they are like grey pencil scribbles. Normal surface cleaner won’t shift them, not does Flash with bleach which I have found effective on tea and coffee stains. I can’t work out what is causing them and they are popping up all over the place.
Anyone else had a similar issue and any tips to get rid of and prevent them?

They do look like a pencil scribble! I think I’d contact the supplier in the first instance to see what they suggest; some cleaners are too corrosive.

You need Cif cream cleaner, just rub in circles with a white cloth and it will come off.

We get these marks on our cream quartz worktops, they are from stainless steel saucepans, cutlery etc, I use bread Soda sometimes combined with vinegar to get them off. Our installers also told us we can use acetone on the worktops to clean them, we were very surprised with this but it really works. I find that a lot of stains do disappear over the course of normal cleaning, for instance the draining board if someone (other then my self of course )has spilled tea on it, it goes into the ridges, it discolours if it hasn't been wiped up straight away bit with regular wiping it goes back to its original colour, we have ours a year now and we have no lasting stains! Hope that helps!

A plain white pencil rubber can take most of that off, if not all. Don't use an abrasive rubber.

Then get yourself some trivets or other pot stand arrangement (and cutting boards if you're cutting on the surface itself).

Just to add, when we had our quartz worktop installed, the one thing the guy said was to not use bleach on it.

Barkeeper’s friend did the trick, removes them with hardly any rubbing. Possibly old style Cif cream would indeed have done the same.

Of course we’re using cutting boards SpponBlender!