Every couple of years I paint / stain my concrete driveway and garage to keep it looking new and fresh. I've always used Sherwin Williams H&C concrete stain and sealer. Great stuff if you every want to try something other than the crap they sell in hardware stores with the sprinkle on flakes that always seems to peel.
Anyway......I did it earlier today and the garage floor remained very sticky all afternoon. I started wondering if it was going to be dry by tonight so the wife and I could pull our cars in for the night without the tires sticking and peeling up the paint.
I remembered back to my younger years working construction an old man told me that if you wipe down sticky paint with water, it dries it immediately! I somehow remembered that conversation I had years ago and thought I would give it a try.
My floor was very tacky, leaving finger prints if you touched it and your shoes would stick to it if you stepped on it.......So, I got a wet towel and wiped down a small section with a few swipes and then wiped up the water with the dry end of the towel. No paint residue stuck to the towel at all.
Amazingly, the tackiness / stickyness is gone and the paint is as hard as a rock. I know this wouldn't work if I had just painted it....not that kind of wet, but the couple of hours later kind of takcky paint, this trick worked.
So....someone please tell me how in the he11 this works? It's got me baffled! (I looked all over the internet and couldn't find anything)
Anyway......I did it earlier today and the garage floor remained very sticky all afternoon. I started wondering if it was going to be dry by tonight so the wife and I could pull our cars in for the night without the tires sticking and peeling up the paint.
I remembered back to my younger years working construction an old man told me that if you wipe down sticky paint with water, it dries it immediately! I somehow remembered that conversation I had years ago and thought I would give it a try.
My floor was very tacky, leaving finger prints if you touched it and your shoes would stick to it if you stepped on it.......So, I got a wet towel and wiped down a small section with a few swipes and then wiped up the water with the dry end of the towel. No paint residue stuck to the towel at all.
Amazingly, the tackiness / stickyness is gone and the paint is as hard as a rock. I know this wouldn't work if I had just painted it....not that kind of wet, but the couple of hours later kind of takcky paint, this trick worked.
So....someone please tell me how in the he11 this works? It's got me baffled! (I looked all over the internet and couldn't find anything)
