I enjoy your channel. Its good to see someone who knows what there talking about and willing to help smaller guys learn and make there bussiness better, I have a small company thats been in business about 8 years and this kind of info would have been awesome to have when i was first getting started instead I had to learn the hard way a few times that first year. Id always use acrylic sealers so when i was inexperienced i didnt understand the pavers must be bone dry when you start so you dont trap moisture between the sealer and the paver. I also learned that you can overapply the sealer and you end up layering the sealer over itself which doesnt allow the original coat to dry properly and a secound pass over top will trap the moisture from the orginal coat and give you the same effect. At least with acrylic sealer, water based sealer thats never a issue but it just doesnt have the protection as acrylic plus water based doesnt look nearly as good in my opinion and the customers in my area tend to agree.
This comment actually points out the biggest down side of acrylic and water base sealer which can take a sealer rookie a year to learn 😮 thank you for the information 😊
Thank you for your content! I would appreciate your thoughts:) Just had a paver patio installed, did not intend to seal it but I had a chance to see a patio that had been sealed and it was amazing. Discussed with my contractor who didn't tell me it was recommended to wait before sealing, did say that many clients chose to wait as long as a year before sealing. He said if I wanted to seal it we would need to wait until the weather was dry for a few days before sealing. So we waited a couple of days and used "Eagle Supreme Seal" a solvent based acrylic sealer that was what the contractor typically used. They did use muriatic acid to remove efflorescence that was present on about 20 of the pavers. Well as you might have guessed the efflorescence has come thru the sealer, mostly on the pavers that already had it. I like this company and I think this guy was trying to please me because I wanted the sealer instead of bluntly telling me it wasn't a good idea:( Where we are at right now is that I have decided to wait to see if the efflorescence goes away (just one coat of sealer was applied) This was just a couple of weeks ago, I am in Oregon, cool wet winter ahead, usually not much snow, it can get hot in the summer but not humid and we usually have cool spring/early summer with temps 55-70 April-June. Do you thing this is a reasonable step or do you think the sealer needs to be removed? These are the pavers www.mutualmaterials.com/products/columbia-slate-patio-stone/ What would you recommend to remove this sealer from this type of paver? I so appreciate any advice you can give me!
I always tell people it is better to ask the manufacturer of the sealer, they usually have good support for their products. If it was a water based sealer you may have seen the efflorescence go away, but most solvent based sealers will trap it. It may need to be removed.
Hey great video! Really appreciate the explanation! I have a question that I wonder if I could get your opinion on...We recently decided to get a pool and as part of the project we have hired a landscape company to modify our existing paver patio add to it as well. As part of the project they removed all of the existing sand, power washed, re-sanded and resealed the patio. After 5 days I was watering the flowers and sprayed some water onto the patio and the sand began coming up and the deck foamed. The company said it was due to bad polymeric sand and agreed to powerwash the patio again and reapply the sand and reseal the patio. They power washed, applied new sand to the whole patio (while leaving most of the old sand in since it was only a few days old at this point) and then wet the patio. After the patio dried there is a white haze over the entire surface but very pronounced white haze in the low spots of the pavers. They are insisting that this is completely normal and that once they put the wet sealer on, all the haze will disappear. However after reading online and watching this video I am skeptical. I want the patio to be correct, not just improved by the sealer. Am I over reacting? Is there always a haze? I certainly didn't notice it after the first application.
The haze should be cleaned prior to sealing otherwise it gets sealed into the surface. Usually before sealing there is a pre-cleaning phase that should get this
I enjoy your channel. Its good to see someone who knows what there talking about and willing to help smaller guys learn and make there bussiness better, I have a small company thats been in business about 8 years and this kind of info would have been awesome to have when i was first getting started instead I had to learn the hard way a few times that first year. Id always use acrylic sealers so when i was inexperienced i didnt understand the pavers must be bone dry when you start so you dont trap moisture between the sealer and the paver. I also learned that you can overapply the sealer and you end up layering the sealer over itself which doesnt allow the original coat to dry properly and a secound pass over top will trap the moisture from the orginal coat and give you the same effect. At least with acrylic sealer, water based sealer thats never a issue but it just doesnt have the protection as acrylic plus water based doesnt look nearly as good in my opinion and the customers in my area tend to agree.
Dang, yeah that is a tough way to learn for sure. Glad you enjoy the channel!
This comment actually points out the biggest down side of acrylic and water base sealer which can take a sealer rookie a year to learn 😮 thank you for the information 😊
Thank you for your content! I would appreciate your thoughts:) Just had a paver patio installed, did not intend to seal it but I had a chance to see a patio that had been sealed and it was amazing. Discussed with my contractor who didn't tell me it was recommended to wait before sealing, did say that many clients chose to wait as long as a year before sealing. He said if I wanted to seal it we would need to wait until the weather was dry for a few days before sealing. So we waited a couple of days and used "Eagle Supreme Seal" a solvent based acrylic sealer that was what the contractor typically used. They did use muriatic acid to remove efflorescence that was present on about 20 of the pavers. Well as you might have guessed the efflorescence has come thru the sealer, mostly on the pavers that already had it. I like this company and I think this guy was trying to please me because I wanted the sealer instead of bluntly telling me it wasn't a good idea:( Where we are at right now is that I have decided to wait to see if the efflorescence goes away (just one coat of sealer was applied) This was just a couple of weeks ago, I am in Oregon, cool wet winter ahead, usually not much snow, it can get hot in the summer but not humid and we usually have cool spring/early summer with temps 55-70 April-June. Do you thing this is a reasonable step or do you think the sealer needs to be removed? These are the pavers www.mutualmaterials.com/products/columbia-slate-patio-stone/ What would you recommend to remove this sealer from this type of paver? I so appreciate any advice you can give me!
I always tell people it is better to ask the manufacturer of the sealer, they usually have good support for their products. If it was a water based sealer you may have seen the efflorescence go away, but most solvent based sealers will trap it. It may need to be removed.
Hey great video! Really appreciate the explanation! I have a question that I wonder if I could get your opinion on...We recently decided to get a pool and as part of the project we have hired a landscape company to modify our existing paver patio add to it as well. As part of the project they removed all of the existing sand, power washed, re-sanded and resealed the patio. After 5 days I was watering the flowers and sprayed some water onto the patio and the sand began coming up and the deck foamed. The company said it was due to bad polymeric sand and agreed to powerwash the patio again and reapply the sand and reseal the patio. They power washed, applied new sand to the whole patio (while leaving most of the old sand in since it was only a few days old at this point) and then wet the patio. After the patio dried there is a white haze over the entire surface but very pronounced white haze in the low spots of the pavers. They are insisting that this is completely normal and that once they put the wet sealer on, all the haze will disappear. However after reading online and watching this video I am skeptical. I want the patio to be correct, not just improved by the sealer. Am I over reacting? Is there always a haze? I certainly didn't notice it after the first application.
The haze should be cleaned prior to sealing otherwise it gets sealed into the surface. Usually before sealing there is a pre-cleaning phase that should get this
I feel like efflorescence is less common now that most guys are switching to open graded base.
I agree! Still have some quality issues from the pallet with some products though
Thanks for this video! Noticed this on some of my slabs and good to know it can easily be cleaned out
Please give some advice on good cleaners for hazing
Techni Seal has a cleaner for this
@@iamahardscaperLink to the specific product? Not finding anything. Thanks