Travertine sealer

[chriscope]

Hello, firstly thanks - been reading around the forum for ideas on tiling. Now done my bathroom walls and got well into laying 55m2 of opus pattern travertine covering most of downstairs floor.
Bathroom went well.
Floor went well until i tried to seal the tiles prior to grouting. Floors of stone gave me seal-guard which everyone seems to rave about. I was very happy with the LTP ironwax satin for the bathroom - i guess it's meant to be more shiny.
The sealguard seems to be VERY different and acetone based (stinks). On the tin it says up to 40m2 per litre. I have budgetted 10m2 per L, but the stuff just seems to evaporate no matter how quickly i put it down. Slight foam on rolling and gone in thirty seconds. Evaporates out the tray. Not making 1L for 10m2 let alone 40.
The tin also says buff with a clean cloth before the second coat is dry - its dry in 30 seconds!! Is that normal for the stuff?
Thanks in advance
Chris

 

[faithhealer]

sorry I can't help you Chris, never used it myself because I never liked the 'evaporation' you talk about. I would go back to Ltp sealer myself

 

[White Room]

Used it once on trav but it was on walls, did'nt like it stunk to high heaven.

Sprayed some on a piece of tissue, waited for it to dry then put water on it and it just rolled off so it does waterproof but an expensive way to seal IMO

 

[hillhead]

Lithofin is all i use

 

[chriscope]

thanks for the replies, so how long did it take to dry for you whitebeam?

 

[Matt]

I only know of the SealGuard aerosol. I presume that's not what you are using?

 

[chriscope]

indeed, i have two 5l cans of sealer, not an aerosol. so how long does the aerosol take to dry?

 

[Matt]

indeed, i have two 5l cans of sealer, not an aerosol. so how long does the aerosol take to dry?

The aerosol evaporates really quickly and needs a lot of coats to properly seal the stone. I have no experience with the liquid sealer