Geofix all weather staining !! - Need some advice

[kd76]

I've just had granite slabs laid and the landscaper used 'geofix all weather'. The weather was a bit temperamental so he advised the all weather. It's been applied, the joints look fine but there's LOTS of black staining on the slabs!! I've been told by the landscaper, Geofix and the retailer I bought the slabs from it'll eventually come off.

Is this true? Need some advice.

Also I suspect he didn't wet the slabs before applying (like it said on the tub ). Though it didn't rain soon after.

Can I scrub it off, jet wash ?

[lutonlagerlout]

it will be off sooner than you think
not a product most on here ,including me like
but the sheen from polymerics soon goes
LLL

[kd76]

It's been about 5 weeks now. It's just gutting seeing the brand new slabs looking so bad. Hope it does go! Right now , it doesn't feel like it

[Tony McC]

How many more complaints about this godawful jollop are we going to hear this year?

If you thought the original flavour GeoFix was poor, this new All-Weather formulation is, without doubt, the single, most-complained about product of 2016, and we're only in July!

There's obviously something desperately wrong with it. Some of the problem is, admittedly, eejits just not following the usage guidance, but even contractors I know and trust to do exactly as recommended by EverBuild (the clowns responsible for this abomination) are reporting problems with stains, blackening and variable hardening.

There are so many genuinely good jointing products out there at the moment, including some of the 1-part polymerics, it makes you wonder why a company with such a strong reputation in construction supplies persist with this useless crap. They could easily afford a day trip over to Belgium, Holland or Germany and find half a dozen manufacturers of superior products, all available on a white label, which they could import, re-badge as the "new formulation GeoFix" and sell at a tidy profit. But for reasons beyond human comprehension, they keep going with the same old shite.

A true mystery!

[kd76]

Another issue, the slabs were laid on a concrete bed (aren't all ?) and I worry that when it rains , more staining appears around the edges. Is this because the geofix is permeable? And the water is coming back up and seeping over edges ?

[Tony McC]

Sort of. The GeoFix is probably acting as a reservoir for surface water which then penetrates the edges of the flags to give the infamous 'picture frame' effect, but it's only moisture so should evaporate off in a dry spell.