Terracotta sealer

[Perry]

Someone asked how good the sealer i use on terracotta was so i put this cooking oil and egg on the tile 48 hours ago sent them pics and they are coming round later to pick up just run it under the tap lol

 

[nybor62]

hmm some soldiers would be nice to dip in that egg

 

[Perry]

hmm some soldiers would be nice to dip in that egg

was a job not to eat it :drool5:

 

[Gazzer]

was a job not to eat it :drool5:

You would eat it after 48 hours ????? ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :ack2:

 

[Stonebro2]

Is it breathable - only problem I have had with resin type sealers is if there is a leak or damp and water gets underneath ?

 

[Perry]

its breathable if water get under terracotta you have a problem lol

 

[Perry]

You would eat it after 48 hours ????? ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :ack2:

after 48 hours Neale no lol at the time behave yourself

 

[Stonebro2]

Yes I know but only problems I have had with Terracotta the past is if I have used Resin type sealers - used to fix a fair bit for Paris Ceramics - what a licence to print that was - just that type of Terracotta Pammet you show they are problematic feckers from an efflorescence point of view - a couple of fixers we passed work to where using yacht varnish and I remember a couple of problems they had with efflorescence coming up underneath - how to get the varnish off?! I think they used wire wool and nitromors - not nice.
Anything I finish Terracotta with, must have a remover that will take it off. Double Boiled Linseed has always served me well, and can be thinned with genuine real Turpentine will post a pic in a minute also LTP antique oil and finished with antique brown briwax

 

[Stonebro2]

My favourite Terracotta of all time - pre glazed at factory expensive circa £80 a sq.metre but so quick to lay

 

[Perry]

and you put a fried egg cheese butter on that floor it will mark ? this sealer is only made up with oils and waxs

 

[Stonebro2]

Yeah probably leave it on it will find its way through - not on the glazed one though
But I always sold lithofin Eversheen as an add on to maintain it with. Most of houses had cleaners or bought little Hoover twin disk buffers to maintain it

Maybe fixed 200 Terracotta floors - spot/cleaning refinishing never an issue - efflorescence bane of my life!

 

[Stonebro2]

Types of Terracotta I have fixed
San Genis
Teatree - Wellington Tile - Amazing leather looking Terracotta
Lionheart - Wellington Tile - Extruded
Wellington Hand finished kit did an octagon with a little star shape inset
Ferret Semi Handmade - Terranova
Ferret Handmade - Terranova
Ticsa antiqued - Terranova
Reclaimed French - Fired Earth & Paris (Antique Barr was it called or am I thinking of another product)
YHMB std - York Handmade Brick
YHMB Autumn Sunset
Ashcroft Brick works red
Ashcroft Brick works white
Saltillo - Elon and imported some myself
Fired Earth Tumbled
Alistair Mackintosh Red - Presealed - Great product such a shame when he stopped making it
Alistair Mackintoh Honey - Presealed
HR Johnson Extruded Red
HR Johnson Extruded Honey
Acorn Ceramics - Anyone remember them - big Terracotta importer in the 90's Did hexagonal and all sorts of shapes
Handmade red - honey shades and equally good either face up - Terranova
Another company near York who did a really pale cream and thay sold a two part resin sealer for it - fixed loads of it

 

[Stonebro2]

Oh Zydeco did a Zimbabwean Red Terracotta - hmm best not ask what happened to that factory

 

[Stonebro2]

Remembering so many jobs I wish I had photographed - but we didnt have digital Cameras in those days - it was 35mm film - and developing was pricy, when you are young man with kids

 

[jonnyc]

when did you do work for paris ceramics?
i was the main recommended tiler from 1992-2004.
we must know each other!!