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When and how to coat concrete driveway Ook 05-01-2007
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Posted by Ook on May 1, 2007, 10:47 pm


We finally got out driveway finished! Woohoo! soo...I'm looking for
info on coating it. What kinds of coatings are available? I'm mostly
interesting in prolonging the life of the driveway. I've seen concrete
here partially exposed to the rain, and the part exposed to the rain
eventually erodes. I'd like to prevent that if possible.

How long after pouring the concrete do I have to wait before coating
it? I've not found a lot of information on this subject, any good
sites or resources that you would recommend?


Posted by Meat Plow on May 1, 2007, 11:22 pm


On Tue, 01 May 2007 19:47:45 -0700, Ook wrote:

> We finally got out driveway finished! Woohoo! soo...I'm looking for
> info on coating it. What kinds of coatings are available? I'm mostly
> interesting in prolonging the life of the driveway. I've seen concrete
> here partially exposed to the rain, and the part exposed to the rain
> eventually erodes. I'd like to prevent that if possible.
>
> How long after pouring the concrete do I have to wait before coating
> it? I've not found a lot of information on this subject, any good
> sites or resources that you would recommend?

Wait a couple weeks then use Thompson's Water seal. There are more
expensive sealants but they are basically the same base. My drive has been
Thompson sealed for going on 15 years and looks like new.

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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on May 1, 2007, 11:25 pm



>
> How long after pouring the concrete do I have to wait before coating
> it? I've not found a lot of information on this subject, any good
> sites or resources that you would recommend?
>

Most of the sidewalks in town are 5 to 75 years old and they are still
waiting to coat them. I'd wait that long too.



Posted by Steve Barker on May 1, 2007, 11:31 pm


most sidewalks don't get 4000 pounds at a time on them and layers of salt in
the winter.

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>
>>
>> How long after pouring the concrete do I have to wait before coating
>> it? I've not found a lot of information on this subject, any good
>> sites or resources that you would recommend?
>>
>
> Most of the sidewalks in town are 5 to 75 years old and they are still
> waiting to coat them. I'd wait that long too.
>



Posted by Ook on May 2, 2007, 6:28 pm


>
> > How long after pouring the concrete do I have to wait before coating
> > it? I've not found a lot of information on this subject, any good
> > sites or resources that you would recommend?
>
> Most of the sidewalks in town are 5 to 75 years old and they are still
> waiting to coat them. I'd wait that long too.

Most of the sidewalks where I live are not that old, and are in very
poor condition. It rains a lot here, and the rain appears to erode the
concrete. This is especially noticeable in places where part of the
concrete is sheltered from the rain. The part that doesn't get rain
has an almost new appearance. The part that has been rained on looks
like the cement dissolved, exposing the rocks/pebbles that was mixed
into it. In some places this is severe - my old driveway was very
badly eroded. But any cement around here that has been around for a
while seems to do this.

Maybe I should just dump some oil on it, and let that protect it from
rain? :-)


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