Sealing Slate Stone

Say that 10 times fast, if ya can! So here are the results from sealing the upper patio area by hand yesterday. I have to say it turned out very well. The stone doesn't look wet per say, but it does bring out the colors and really makes the stone pop with the plants. We likey:

Today we worked on sealing the lower patio section plus all the ledgewalls, which is a much larger area. We still have to do hands and knees cleaning to get the stone as pristine as possible, but we were able to use our new paint sprayer to apply the sealer to all of that stone which did make the task go much faster.

Eric used the new paint sprayer to apply the sealer (which is actually blocked in this photo—doh!) but you get the idea. We used Behr's wet look masonry and natural stone sealer which was a fraction of the cost of more expensive stone sealers and specifically rated for outdoor use.

You can see the sealer soaking the ledgewalls with it's iridescent glow:

Poor Monkey wanted so badly to join us outside all weekend he spent almost every moment waiting for us by the door out to the sunroom. Poor little guy, he feels so left out.

I did buy harnesses and leashes for both him and Jules so once everything is sealed and clean out there we can take them out (supervised of course) We can't let them out right now because we still have this big uncovered hole that we need to get a covering for. Our landscaper Gino said he would make one for us since his crew accidently threw out the cement board we cut to go there. Regardless we need to get something to cover this hole ASAP lest children and/or animals plummet down this hole. No good!

Once we got back inside Monkey got lots of tough love, don't you worry!

Comments

[DHL]

Thanks for doing the product testing for me! I need to seal the slate and stone in front of my house and now I know the Behr stuff works!

[dana]

no problem! whatever you do don't use the stuff they sell at home depot by the tile. it's like $30 for a bottle of natural stone sealer and $90 for the gallon (impregnator)--the $30 bottle does the wet look but is not rated for outdoors and would be crazy expensive. The $90 gallon seals the stone but has no wet look. The Behr stuff comes in jug and is over in the paint section, near the masonry paint and concrete stain. It's about $18 for a quarts so it's like 1/2 the price of the $30 bottle with twice the product. We used a less than one full jug to do our entire stone area, about 500-600 square feet