Travertine Excess Sealing

Improper application of penetrating sealers is very common. Weather it is a enhancing sealer designed to enhance, or darken the stone, or non- enhancing, they all are designed to GO INTO THE STONE, NOT ON THE STONE. This is an example of what happens as time passes, the excess sealer was not designed or formulated to be a topical sealer, so it will scratch easily and become embedded with soil quickly.

Clean Image of Orlando did a test spot to show the homeowners in Longwood the difference, as they couldn’t believe it, that’s what they wanted. The enhancing sealer they applied was imparting a cloudy shine. A natural polishing, not wax type, will always have a clearer, deeper shine because the light is reflecting from the crystals within the stone.

Penetrating sealers are not designed to change the level of reflectivity.

This homeowner in Orlando called because she wasn’t happy after another company sealed her newly installed travertine. As you can see from the close-up in the before pictures, there was hair embedded in the excess sealer. She also didn’t like the waxy feel of her stone. In this case, we went thru approximately 50 razors to get the majority of it up before polishing the travertine. The right side of the before shows all the excess sealer that was applied.

Again, penetrating sealers go into the stone, not onto the stone. They protect from the inside out.