Having shown you how to apply a coating sealer, it makes sense to show the opposite. Coating sealers, by their very nature, coat the tile or stone, therefore they are in the ‘wear zone’. This means that they will wear much more quickly than their impregnating counterparts. From time to time it may be necessary to strip back a coating sealer so you may start again. Often, when renovating an old, neglected floor, we may not know the entire history of that floor and so we will not know what coatings and polishes may have been used, so again, a complete strip is needed. IN the following video, my good friend A’nge at Aqua Mix Australia shows us exactly how this should be dine. He uses Sealer and Coating Remover to safely remove the sealer then Heavy Duty Tile & Grout Cleaner to help remove all residues.
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What is the best stripper to use to remove gloss sealer from porcelain tile?
Hi Robby,
OK, gloss sealer on a porcelain, most likely won’t be too well bonded in any case. You could try an abrasive cleaner – in the US, Aqua Mix and Mapei USA (Ultra Care Line) have a product that meets that description failing that you might have to try a stripper – again there are several US companies who make sealer strippers, both of the two mentioned above for example. Any proprietary sealer stripper should be fine.
Hope that helps
Ian