Best sealing for indian sandstone

Callumlj · Post: # 88924Post **Callumlj** Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:55 pm

I am getting my patio power cleaned this week and I need to decide on a sealer. The person doing it has said i could buy one of him and he has two.

1) his own brand which he has spent a lot of money on.

2) resiblock

both are about Â£40 to treat my area of 10sm.

Any suggestions would be great.

Carberry · Post: # 88932Post **Carberry** Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:33 am

Check out dry treat.

Dry Treat

Been hearing good things about it.

RAPressureWashing · Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:28 pm

Callumlj wrote:I am getting my patio power cleaned this week and I need to decide on a sealer. The person doing it has said i could buy one of him and he has two.

1) his own brand which he has spent a lot of money on.

2) resiblock

both are about Â£40 to treat my area of 10sm.

Any suggestions would be great.

Both sound to cheap to me, most probably acrylic's so not long lasting, what is the home-brew sealer called ?

Post: # 88972Post **Tony McC** Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:30 am

The Resiblock Indian Stone sealer is pretty good. It's a PU rather than an acrylic and in the trials I have ongoing at the moment (assuming I can retrieve all my samples from the Reasearch Station at Old Borlochs Hall) show it to be great at colour enhancement, no fade over winter, and not slippery. It's certaionly in the top 5 at the moment, and possibly much higher!

RAPressureWashing · Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:13 pm

Tony McC wrote:The Resiblock Indian Stone sealer is pretty good. It's a PU rather than an acrylic and in the trials I have ongoing at the moment (assuming I can retrieve all my samples from the Reasearch Station at Old Borlochs Hall) show it to be great at colour enhancement, no fade over winter, and not slippery. It's certaionly in the top 5 at the moment, and possibly much higher!

What I meant is the cost for the Resiblock without knowing which one the guy is using sounds more like their acrylic sealer which is a lot cheaper then the PU ones and not as good.

The Resiblock Indian Stone sealer is pretty good I have used it on test pieces and seems to hold up well.

Callumlj · Post: # 88999Post **Callumlj** Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:33 pm

It's only for 9sq metres and I need to apply it.

Should I go for the resiblock is there only one type?

RAPressureWashing · Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:01 pm

Callumlj wrote:It's only for 9sq metres and I need to apply it.

Should I go for the resiblock is there only one type?

Resiblock do 2 types for Indian Sandstone, here is a link,
http://shop.resiblock.com/t/domestic-sealers

Post: # 89005Post **Tony McC** Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:14 am

Isn't the Resiblock around 100 quid for 5 litres? So how can anyone treat 10mÂ² for just 40 quid? It doesn't even cover labour!

I wonder if it's the old trick of buying some cheap acrylic gunk and decanting it into a Resiblock can?