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Water-wise landscape · Hardscape

Sealing, pavers or concrete

Sealing pavers or concrete. Worth doing on some surfaces and a mistake on others, and we will tell you which yours is.

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One flat fee to find out what is wrong. You are told it on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and it comes off the job if you hire us. Read our Plain Terms

What the work is

A sealer does two things: it changes the appearance, and it slows staining. On a decorative finish it is doing real work. On plain pavers in a low-traffic area it is often a cost with a maintenance cycle attached and not much benefit.

Applied over a damp or a dirty surface it clouds, and it has to come off before it can be redone. Preparation is most of the job.

Once you start sealing a surface, you have signed up to keep sealing it.

What is included

  • Cleaning and full drying of the surface before anything is applied
  • Joint sand replacement on pavers where required
  • The sealer, applied to the manufacturer's coverage rate
  • Telling you what the recycle interval actually is

What is not

  • Removing a failed or clouded existing sealer, which is a separate and larger job
  • Sealing a surface that is not dry. We will reschedule rather than trap moisture
  • Repairing the surface underneath

The honest version

The sun here is hard on sealers and the reseal interval is shorter than the brochure suggests. If the goal is appearance on decorative concrete, that is a real reason. If someone is selling you sealing on plain pavers as protection, ask what from.

What to ask anyone quoting this, us included

  • What am I protecting this from?
  • What is the reseal interval here?
  • What happens when it eventually needs stripping?

What we can show you in writing

Every line traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below.

  • If your patio sits inside a rebated water-wise conversion, what goes in the joints decides whether the District still counts that area. Ungrouted pavers and flagstone that let water and air through can count as mulch and stay inside the rebated area. Grout and mortar are not permeable, so that area is subtracted instead.1
  • The District's test is permeability, in its own definition of mulch: the surface has to let water and air through. That is the line any joint treatment has to stay on the right side of.1
  • Local water attacks concrete as well as fixtures. St. George culinary water carries sulfate from 1.38 to 451 ppm, averaging 185 ppm, and sprinkler water landing on concrete is a sulfate exposure path in its own right, alongside the soil.1
  • Sulfate does not leave the white scale hard water does. It attacks the cement itself, and the top of St. George's published range, 451 ppm, sits inside ACI exposure class S1 for water contact.2

Where this comes from

Every line above traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below; hover it for the section. If you find a line wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say so.

  1. Landscape and hardscape research, August 2026 Compiled from Washington County Water Conservancy District program documents, its sample conservation easement and FAQ, Utah Water Savers, the 2023 USDA hardiness map, USU Extension, and St. George City Code, Title 10. 3 sections cited. Hover a number above for the section.
  2. Environment, water and ground research, August 2026 Compiled from the cities' own water quality reports, Utah Geological Survey Special Study 127, the Utah State Hazard Mitigation Plan, Washington County GIS hazard layers, NOAA climate records, EPA radon zones and Census QuickFacts. 1 section cited. Hover a number above for the section.

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