Spent $300 on a bad concrete sealer and ruined my driveway job

Tbh I tried that cheap acrylic sealer from the big box store in Tulsa last month and it turned my whole driveway patch into a sticky mess. It peeled off within two weeks after a rain storm and now I gotta grind it all off and start over. Lost about $300 on the product plus three full days of work dealing with the cleanup. Has anyone else had luck with a decent sealer that actually holds up to Oklahoma weather?

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wells.reese12d ago

That "sticky mess" part is exactly what happened to me. I feel your pain on the grinding too, that part is brutal. Honestly, Oklahoma weather is the problem. That extreme heat and then sudden rain just destroys cheap sealers. You gotta go with a solvent-based one, not that acrylic water stuff. It costs more but you won't be redoing it in two weeks.

sethb4511d ago

Yeah my driveway looks like a Jackson Pollock painting that got attacked by a giant slug... not my finest home improvement moment.