Seal N lock bio strip

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.

Do you think it's an issue of the stripper not being up to par? Or an issue of no matter what the job is a tough/tedious?

Fyi, I have never used seal n lock products, thats why I was curious.

Ya most of those "bio" products require more elbowbgrease than there replacements. Ill take dads any day over other products. Pools are easy you have to cover them...hint..bubble wrap. And dont forget about skimmer. .work from the coping out. I dont typically like fan tips on pavers..seen my guys lift them too many times on 1 inch overlays. Turbo nozzle is a necessity when stripping. Wheres chappy im sure hes used that stuff too..sounds like you got it all up and the customer was pleased. Do you offer warranties with the seal n lock?

I don't blame the stripper it did what I should. It just needed more pressure than what the sc could do. Wanding it was perfect. Just took longer.

palm beach said:

Ya most of those "bio" products require more elbowbgrease than there replacements. Ill take dads any day over other products. Pools are easy you have to cover them...hint..bubble wrap. And dont forget about skimmer. .work from the coping out. I dont typically like fan tips on pavers..seen my guys lift them too many times on 1 inch overlays. Turbo nozzle is a necessity when stripping. Wheres chappy im sure hes used that stuff too..sounds like you got it all up and the customer was pleased. Do you offer warranties with the seal n lock?

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I'm curious about how soy gel would work. I don't do anything that extensive, but I switched from Dads - which is some noxious kick a$$ stuff - to soy and it seems equivalent or better. I did strip a huge fountain that had some type of behr coating inside. It was discolored from being under water, about a gallon and a half of the gel went a looong way, and it hardly evaporates. Almost all the coating came right off.

I'm stripping Luster seal from a driveway today. I did a test spot and it seamed to work good. I'll post on here how it goes. I'm applying it today and cleaning it tomorrow.

I think the bio strip has its uses, but I need to apply and strip the same day, not wait overnight with plastic covering. Plus I use the sirrocco to vacuum away the stripper/sealer and the solvent strippers make the sealer gooey which clogs the machine up. I had the same experience with it in shady areas where it took 4 times as long with turbo nozzle as the same size area with dads.
Turbo nozzles have become my best friend next to Dad's. We use double turbos which cover larger area and when pressure is split, has less chance of damaging the surface.

Glad it came out ok Kory