Shellock is more than just a functional surface. They are also an elegant addition to the areas around your pools or other areas at home. Whether you put your shellock in a pathway or around your pool, you should consider sealing it to maintain this aesthetic feature of your home. Maintaining your shellock paver is worth every investment, as removing and reinstalling a new shellock is much more costly than simply sealing it.
Shellock pavers are known for their aesthetic features. The truth is, whether you install your shellock pavers outside in the driveway or the pool or inside around your fireplace, this type of material makes a cozy, elegant, and natural feel. However, when deciding on adding shellock pavers to your property, you need to consider the seriousness of maintaining this material to keep its quality and functionality. With all this in mind, you may ask, “Do I need to seal “my shellock pavers?” Instead of answering that question with a simple” “yes, “see why I think this is beneficial in this post.
Do You Need to Seal Your Shellock?
Sealing shellock pavers is integral to their durability and beauty. Using a penetrating shellock paver sealer, like Ure-Seal, will increase the tensile strength of the shellock pavers by up to 30% while also filling all the capillaries and pores throughout the Stone.
Once those capillaries and pores are filled, oils, liquids, and rust will not be able to absorb into the shellock tiles. After shellock sealing, chemicals and other natural elements may not compromise the Stone’s quality. Instead of being absorbed, they bead on the surface and can be easily rinsed off with a garden hose! Don’t worry about wine glass on your shellock pool deck when it’s sealed, as the remaining liquid won’t be able to go into the porous shellock paver tiles! However, if left unsealed, shellock will be extremely vulnerable to absorbing stains, as nothing protects those pores. Without a seal, shellock soaks any liquids, oils, oxidation, rust from metals, or that spilled glass of chardonnay!
Protect Your Pavement Increase Its Aesthetic Value and Prolong Shellock Life
In addition to protecting the substrate, having your shellock sealed will stabilize the joint sand between the tiles. If left unsealed, the joint sand that was washed or swept between the joints, that keeps them from wiggling or moving, the sand will wash out from rainwater, pool water, or roof run-off, and inevitably, your shellock pool deck or shellock driveway will have so much sand loss. The shellock tiles will begin to shift, wiggle, wobble, or, in most cases, the sand base on which the shellock lies will start to wash out from below, referred to as degradation or” “Subsurface erosion.” This will even” “fully make the shell lock tiles sink or rise in some areas, creating an uneven and unsafe surface.
In addition to the maintenance benefits of having your shellock paver tiles sealed, you can also get a pleasant aesthetic look if you go with the wet, semi-gloss, or natural look. Customers often have a common misconception that if the brick pavers, travertine, or shellock pavers being sealed are shiny, they will be slippery once wet. In some cases, this can be true. To solve this issue, Paver contractors apply a slip-resistant polymer additive on our last coat of paver sealant to ensure that a lightly textured surface is left behind, increasing the surface’s coefficient of friction if you do not want that gloss on your shellock.
We Highly recommend our Impregnating, natural finish, no-gloss, and wet-look options on all unsealed surfaces.
Are you unsure what you want for your Shellock pavement maintenance service yet? We will be more than glad to help you decide. You can consult our travertine page to learn more about the coefficient of friction and what that means for your surface to become slip-resistant when we complete your residential or commercial brick paver sealing project.
We Take Your Safety Seriously
Every time we accept shellock sealing, we ensure we provide what you need and ensure that as we finish our work, your safety is a priority once you put your shellock at work again. Whether you have your shellock pavements around the pool or in the driveway, or if you have this shellock indoors, maintaining them will be vital to your property and our safety in the long run. If you want to know more about our shellock sealing services, please contact us today.