Restaurant exposed aggregate

Clear Shine

Clear Shine

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I do this Outback every other week, but the concrete has exposed aggregate on the walkways. I know it is from contractors in the past who didnt know what they were doing to try to get the grease up. We treat this everytime we do it and clean it with hot water, and it looks great for the first day, but after that, it looks like this from the traffic patterns coming out of the kitchen. i know alot of it is from the cream being gone from the top of the concrete and having the exposed aggregate. Is there any kind of sealer I can put on these areas to keep the grease traffic pattern to last longer in between cleanings?

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Is one picture the before and the other picture the after or both pictures the before?
 
you need to treat that with a good enzyme based concrete cleaner. Something that will eat all the grease out of the pores of the concrete. Othere wise it just leeches back up.

And do like Kory says, they need a proper cleaning and degreasing and then proper maintenenance procedures for the inside of the store. Most of these chains use cleaning products from a compnay called ECOLA* and either their products do not work to eat the grease and oils or they are not used properly
 
How has that seal n lock worked out for those places Scott?

I was thinking about trying that stuff for similar reasons, maybe put down Doug's product first then going back with the seal n lock to help keep the stuff from penetrating.


Kory, is the seal n lock a deep penetrating sealer or just topical?

Thanks.
 
It's been on the ground since after the Tampa RT last year.It is starting to wear from the twice a month LAVA bath,but it has held up well.

The only down side is trying to apply at multiple locations in the time allowed before the seal and lock is no good.IMO it's a great product for these applications
 
Squirtgun said:
It's been on the ground since after the Tampa RT last year.It is starting to wear from the twice a month LAVA bath,but it has held up well.

The only down side is trying to apply at multiple locations in the time allowed before the seal and lock is no good.IMO it's a great product for these applications
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So I guess that drying overnite will be ok?

Thanks.
 
Seal n lock is a penetrating sealer. the time Scott is refering to is the wet look sealer that has 2 parts that need to be mixed together once mixed you have about 3 hours till that batch goes bad. The natural luster seal n lock goes bad after about a year of being opened as long as it does not freeze. I would recommend using the natural luster on commercial because it does not darken the surface color or give it a sheen. Seal n lock needs about 1-2 hours to dry and no heavy foot traffic for at least 4 hours and no cars or furniture for at least 24 hrs.
 
Great info on Seal n Lock! I'll start talking with some restaurants! Those marks are way too common at restaurants! I wonder what customers would think if they knew that was from the inside coming out and not the other way around! We've sold a lot of inside cleanings on those marks, but for the outside, we never found a sealer that didn't get slippery when wet and frictionless when greasy! Anyone know if seal n lock gets more or less slick than other concrete sealers?
 
Thanks for the info Kory.
 
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