Baird.
First the efflorescent is going to continue to come back until all the moisture is out of the stone. if moisture is still getting into the stone you will never stop this problem.
You mentioned yo9u had to strip off the sealer. does this mean you used a topical sealer? if you used an impregnating sealer you would not need to strip of the sealer before removing the efflorescence.
You can use a mild acid to remove the efflorescence and then re-seal using an Impregnating Sealer.
If you use this process you can walk on it as soon as the Impregnating Seal has cured ,
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Baird Standish [mailto:bairdstandish@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:34 PM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: [sccpartners] recurring efflourescence
Hi.
We have a job that required removing masonry from a rough granite floor where a planter had been mortared in place. We used some good products to remove the residual mortar and then sealed (I talked about this in an earlier post). The sealer we used was Aldon SBS Sealer. It was good for a while but then quite a lot of efflourescence came back (I believe it came from the hard water being absorbed by the granite floor over many years. We also have been getting a lot of rain recently). We then stripped the sealer and applied Aldon Efflourescence treatment. Each time we have applied it (about three times) the efflourescence came back, but less and less. I put more on last Thursday and checked today and it was in pretty good shape but not perfect. I am a little concerned about reapplying the sealer and, if it doesn't eradicate the efflourescence, I will have to strip again. Constant treating with efflouresence treatment makes the floor slippery. Are there any other products that anyone knows about that might either a. be a good maintenance type efflourescence treatment that could be walked on immediately after application, or b. another sealer that really does the job to remove/hide efflourescence and also color enhances?
Thanks so much.
Baird
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Facility Specialists, LLC
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Philadelphia, PA 19103
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From the desk of
Baird Standish
Managing Partner
Facility Specialists, LLC
1616 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-732-7505
Fax: 215-546-9160