Thread: Whats a good grout color sealer, paint,finish etc.. that will hold up to 1200 psi multiple cleanings

Cleaning chems can have a big effect on color seals depending on their base. Water based aren't going to hold up as well against repeated high PH attacks. Epoxy based will stand a better chance against the bleaches and high PH, but not a lot longer because they are water based epoxies. Neither is going to handle repeated high pressure, high heat offenses.

Originally Posted by shane deubell

Its answer to 90% of all questions, Execution

Ok but who do we need to execute? The home-owner or the last cleaner?

Originally Posted by p997

Ok Rob, that's two post where you have found the cure but have not answered the question. If it is a secret sauce then keep it to yourself. Or offer to sell the product or keep it to your self.

Keep your eyes open.

Just catching up on a few old threads on here. I spend most of my time on Dirtygrout but i wanted to add something to this one.

Proper preparation makes all the difference in the world. We have been applying colorseal for years. We use ColorClad colorseal. It is extremely popular with the hard surface pros. We don't have adhesion problems because we clean the surface with a good alkaline cleaner first. We also use higher pressure and higher heat than most because we run a 3000psi unit with propane heat that keeps us around 230 degrees at 2.2gpm on the turbo. This provides a great adhesion surface for the colorseal. We also warranty our residential colorseal jobs for 15 years - not 2 or 3, 15.

This is also the same information that we teach in our tile and grout class as well as the colorseal training class.

We clean the commercial and residential surfaces that have been colorsealed at around 1500psi and use a good strong 13 ph alkaline cleaner to do it. Probably overkill, but it doesn't hurt the colorseal. The customer only has to avoid petroleum based products in the cleaners and paint strippers.

Just to be fair, we also gave the same warranty years ago when we were using the original formula of grout perfect colorseal.

Color Clad is good stuff.