Stained and sealed concrete

Trevorschultz

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Do you have to burnish concrete after sealing? Also, is it necessary to completely strip the sealer off once a year and re apply?
 
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Sealing with what? You either use a guard after polishing, which gets burnished, or an impregnating sealer. Typically you would buff afterwards to remove any residue. I just did my garage this past weekend and sealed with an impregnator, no topical.

No finished pics yet because I had to move all my stuff back in with rain coming, but here is what the sealer does.

PROSOCO SLX 100
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Here is one I did with a guard that got burnished.

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I'm unfamiliar with the whole process but I thought you essentially cleaned the floors with either a tile spinner or vlm method and then applied a sealer. A local liquor store wants a bid. Right now they have Great Floors doing the work and they said that every 3 months they clean, seal and then burnish. Then once a year they strip it bare and do a seal and burnish. Apparently the last time they did it no burnishing happened and the manager said 2 days later the floors looked like they had never even been done so they came back and did them again and burnished. The floors still don't look great to me
 
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they must be using a guard of some sort then. Burnishing sets, or cures the guard and makes it a lot more durable than if you were to just apply it and leave it alone.

Not something you want to do without a little practice
 
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