[mjm]

Hi what are you roughly charging for sealing. I have been on the smartseal course a trainee on there said. He is going to charge  6 times the cleaning price   👀.  S bit much for me but each to there own  I have sealed a couple of my family  I feel ok to seal but I only charged for the clean and the price of the sealer
Because of family. So should  I charge  the price of the clean and materials  the sealer. And double it. What do you normally charge  roughly  please I won't get work if I charge 6 times the clean 😳

[Jonny Swirljet]

The trouble with offering sealing is that the weather in the UK rarely offers a decent window of dry fine weather to facilitate cleaning & sealing. I usually allow two days drying time for re-sanding and four dry days for sanding and sealing.   If it rains, you're back to day 0 again - the job is forever on the back burner awaiting completion at the mercy of the weather. I've identified July as the best month for offering sealant when as this year had long spells of hot sun and no rain. It is recommended you allow four hours between coats and a final 12 hours of drying for the blocks to be dry enough to walk on and park cars. I usually just add on a days labour if the custard wants sealant plus the cost of the product and application tools.
A newbie driveway cleaner once rang me and asked why a driveway he had sealed looked like someone had thrown milk on it. He said he'd let it dry over night and re-sanded and sealed it the next day. A costly mistake.  I'm a bit anal about drying times

[mjm]

Thanks Johnny thats  something I didn't think of a day labour for sealant 👍

[Splash & dash]

The trouble with offering sealing is that the weather in the UK rarely offers a decent window of dry fine weather to facilitate cleaning & sealing. I usually allow two days drying time for re-sanding and four dry days for sanding and sealing.   If it rains, you're back to day 0 again - the job is forever on the back burner awaiting completion at the mercy of the weather. I've identified July as the best month for offering sealant when as this year had long spells of hot sun and no rain. It is recommended you allow four hours between coats and a final 12 hours of drying for the blocks to be dry enough to walk on and park cars. I usually just add on a days labour if the custard wants sealant plus the cost of the product and application tools.
A newbie driveway cleaner once rang me and asked why a driveway he had sealed looked like someone had thrown milk on it. He said he'd let it dry over night and re-sanded and sealed it the next day. A costly mistake.  I'm a bit anal about drying times

Totally agree with the above we don’t offer sealing any more it’s a total pain

[Smudger]

No sealing here either for standard brick weave drive/patios,  with respect to smart seal et al - they are cr@p - esp for drives

if you dig down the customer only wants a sealing service because they think the drive will never need cleaning again 

if you seal and you've now done a couple for friends then you will have an idea of time

so I would charge for materials +50% of cost - time to and from job - nominal £30 for rollers/equipment use etc.. hourly rate

I do specialist sealing for sandstone and other natural stone patio's to protect them for the old BBQ


Darran

[mjm]

Sorry for delay.  Thank you I have some ideas Now.  🤝😊

[Kev Martin]

Use a PSRP Enrich & Seal or PSRP Penetrating Sealer which are both water based and there are no issues

We charge between £1-5 per M2 for sealing depending on what we are sealing, porosity and amount of coats plus the cost of the sealer.

[mjm]

Thanks Kev I used the trade from resiblock it sealed fine you can put top on and use again I like that but the other matt and gloss you can't do I needed a ball park. Thank for your help.