Comments on: How To Remove Sealer and Sealing Residues? http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/sealing/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/ Tile and Stone Maintenance Fri, 11 May 2012 16:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ian Taylor http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/sealing/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Ian Taylor Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:05:27 +0000 http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/problem-solving/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/#comment-968 Hi Kim, OK, you don't mention which brand of enhancer, but you should know that some are incredibly difficult to remove. There is one popular brand that needs an industrial stregnth solvent to stand any chance of removal, and in all honsety it is not always 100% successful My best advice is to contact the manufacturer of the particular enhancer you applied and ask their tech services, they may have a recommended stripper that they ahve found successful. Be prepared though you may not get it all out. It is possible that you could significantly reduce reduce it's colour enhancing effect, and so greatly subdue the effect and this may be acceptable - good luck Hope this helps Ian Hi Kim,

OK, you don’t mention which brand of enhancer, but you should know that some are incredibly difficult to remove. There is one popular brand that needs an industrial stregnth solvent to stand any chance of removal, and in all honsety it is not always 100% successful

My best advice is to contact the manufacturer of the particular enhancer you applied and ask their tech services, they may have a recommended stripper that they ahve found successful.

Be prepared though you may not get it all out. It is possible that you could significantly reduce reduce it’s colour enhancing effect, and so greatly subdue the effect and this may be acceptable – good luck

Hope this helps

Ian

]]> By: Kim Learn http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/sealing/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/comment-page-1/#comment-962 Kim Learn Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:03:26 +0000 http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/problem-solving/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/#comment-962 Hello I just finished doing a stone fireplace wall with amazing oxford ledgestone and loved it . I was not sure if I should use an impregnator (colour enhancer) , tried a piece and thought it was okay. I loved the natural stone look, now with the colour enhancer it looks too uniform . I feel that the enhancer took away the subtlety of the different earthy tones. I am so upset about this. Can I get rid of this impregnating colour enhancer? Is there a stripper that will get rid of the colour enhancer? I read that Drano may work. Please help Hello
I just finished doing a stone fireplace wall with amazing oxford ledgestone and loved it . I was not sure if I should use an impregnator (colour enhancer) , tried a piece and thought it was okay. I loved the natural stone look, now with the colour enhancer it looks too uniform . I feel that the enhancer took away the subtlety of the different earthy tones. I am so upset about this. Can I get rid of this impregnating colour enhancer? Is there a stripper that will get rid of the colour enhancer? I read that Drano may work.

Please help

]]> By: Ian Taylor http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/sealing/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/comment-page-1/#comment-910 Ian Taylor Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:41:40 +0000 http://www.tileandstoneblog.co.uk/problem-solving/how-to-remove-sealer-and-sealing-residues/#comment-910 Hi Karen, I know that product quite well, and yes it does have a smell. However, I have to say that to my knowlege it is one of the least smelly strippers out there. If you need a good sealer removing stripper, then I think you will be hard pressed to find one that is not in fact even worse in terms of fumes and odour, plus many are not so nice to use as they contain methyl chloride and other harmful ingredients. As to whether you can mechanically remove the sealer, this may be possible it depends; of the sealer is thick it may just get chewed up and clogg any abrasive disc you use, or if the bluestone is soft then you might damage it through abrasion. You could try an abrasive cream cleaner like Microscrub, btu this will only help on very thin coatings Hope this helps Ian Hi Karen,

I know that product quite well, and yes it does have a smell. However, I have to say that to my knowlege it is one of the least smelly strippers out there. If you need a good sealer removing stripper, then I think you will be hard pressed to find one that is not in fact even worse in terms of fumes and odour, plus many are not so nice to use as they contain methyl chloride and other harmful ingredients.
As to whether you can mechanically remove the sealer, this may be possible it depends; of the sealer is thick it may just get chewed up and clogg any abrasive disc you use, or if the bluestone is soft then you might damage it through abrasion.

You could try an abrasive cream cleaner like Microscrub, btu this will only help on very thin coatings

Hope this helps

Ian

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