Kory
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Ok I used bio strip for the first time this week. I thought I would share my experiance. I did not take pics but I don't think they would help. Ok so the setup is this customer has been with me for 6 years and lives in a very high end gated community. When I first started taking care of his property he had a acrylic sealer on his pavers. six years ago I did not know about seal N lock so I used more acrylic. The pavers looked nice but had to be re sealed about every year or year and a half. Well this year the sealer failed and was looking horrible. Very flaky and splotchy. So we decided it would be best to stip and re seal. Monday afternoon I went out and used a paint roller and spread the BIo-stripper and covered it with visqueen aka plastic and let it sit overnight. The next day my crew went out and cleaned the drive with the surface cleaner. The areas in the sun that had weak and failed sealer turned out fair you could tell it was doing its job because the old stuff was cracking and peeling. The areas with no sun and the sealer was still good didn't come up at all. So we put another coat of the stripper on and left. The nexT morning we returned and the area with no sun the stripper still did not make the sealer peel but it was slippery as all hell. So I put another coat on it. And let it sit for an hour UN covered. Surface cleaned it again still not much came up. So I grabbed a wand and yellow tip and dug in. Wow it came up like really cold butter. So we wanded every sq inch to remove the build up of gooie sealer. We went back to the full sun areas and applied more stripper and wanded that too and more came up.
So lessons learned are
1. I will never strip pool pavers as this can be messy.
2. It takes a few coats
3. It takes more pressure to remove that what a sc can do.
4. Customer likes the seal n lock a lot better than the acrylic.
So lessons learned are
1. I will never strip pool pavers as this can be messy.
2. It takes a few coats
3. It takes more pressure to remove that what a sc can do.
4. Customer likes the seal n lock a lot better than the acrylic.