An Interior Concrete Floor Sealer Designed to Impress

Any interior concrete is going to need an interior concrete floor sealer. The reason is that although concrete is hard, it’s actually rather delicate as hard things go. Interior concrete floors left unsealed will develop dust, and often have corners break off. In the worst case scenarios, cleaning plain old concrete gets old, and every time water is put on it, dirty water seeps through the concrete to make bigger problems eventually. There’s a saying that many people are taught in school about “the unexamined life is not worth living” said Socrates, but to paraphrase good old Socrates, I say that “the unsealed concrete floor is not worth having!”

The reasons are many why this is so. Putting down an interior concrete floor sealer will actually prolong its life, and will actually enhance as well as preserve its appearance too. There are of course hundreds of different floor sealers, some good, some bad, some just so-so and one superbly great one!

First, you’ll run into acrylic sealers, either water based ones, or solvent formulations. These work pretty well, and will definitely make your concrete beautiful and shiny for a while. That’s the catch – for a while. They will need to be specially maintained with more than a few coats of floor finish, or wax.

Next is the polyurethane interior concrete floor sealer. This is thicker than the simple acrylic sealer, thus has a higher resistance to chemicals as well as abrasion. Available in both solvent and water based types and generally they offer a range of sheen. Not for excellent resistance to chemicals nor abrasion though.

Now come epoxy sealers. These do produce an abrasion resistant finish, they are long-wearing and quite hard and do protect your concrete surface. Most of them are very water repellent. Unfortunately chances are that they will yellow if exposed to UV rays and shielding a flooring from UV is dependent on the space and exterior light access.

All sealers will not meet your current Federal and local regulations with regard to VOCs either. For example, xylene is a very common solvent frequently found in concrete sealers. It unfortunately produces VOC’s, or volatile organic compounds which can be harmful to elderly, immune deficient, and small pets.

Now we come to Silikal, yet another type of interior concrete floor sealer. First Silikal has absolutely no VOCs, ever. All of the Silikal products will deeply enrich the color intensity of the concrete if it was dyed or stained, or you may choose a seemingly unending choice of colors to bring incredible beauty to your floors. In return to making your floors superbly easy to maintain and clean, you will also be permanently blocking the penetration of stains, chemicals, grease, oil, and all manner of dirt. Neither water nor chlorides can intrude into your concrete either with Silikal. Protection against wear and any abrasion is a given, as Silikal floors outlast the buildings they are put into and they do not yellow!