Green growth can spread across a paver patio while the joint sand washes out or becomes soft. Many patios in Essex and Middlesex Counties are set on stone dust, which can hold moisture and make it harder for the sand to stay firm. Sean’s Property Services cleans the pavers, sweeps in fresh polymeric sand, then seals the patio with your choice of a wet-look or clear finish. The process takes about three days. Call us at 978-995-3110, and we’ll take a look at your patio.
You pick the finish. A wet look brings the color up and gives the pavers a bit of shine. A clear finish seals them without changing the look much. Both go down in the last stage of the job, sprayed on as a water-based sealer once the sand has set. Tell us which one you want and we'll put it down.
A patio restoration done right comes down to three things: the training behind it, the product we put down, and whether we shoot straight with you.
We've done the training on patios, including being flown out by a sealer manufacturer to learn their product the right way. We follow the sand and sealer instructions to the letter. Done wrong, polymeric sand fails. We don't do it wrong.
We use water-based products on purpose. A patio we sealed, we can pressure wash and reseal when it needs freshening up down the road. A harder solvent-based product won't let us do that. It keeps your patio something we can maintain for years, not a one-time job.
You get exactly what we tell you you're going to get. If your patio isn't one we can work on, we say so up front instead of taking the job anyway. And we'll tell you honestly how long the sand will really hold on your patio, not just whatever number is printed on the bag.
Patio restoration is a three-step job over about three days. We clean and blow out the old joint sand, let it dry completely, set new polymeric sand, then come back and seal. If it rains, we wait, because the patio has to be bone dry at every step. We can't work on a patio that's already been sealed by someone else, and we don't seal natural stone or travertine. For a solid concrete patio or pool deck instead of pavers, our concrete sealing runs the same way without the sanding step.
Call, text, or use the form, and our office assistant usually picks up. For most patios we look up the property from your address and price the job from the square footage. We'll ask for a couple of photos if we need them. A complex patio, or one you'd rather show us in person, gets a visit. Your estimate comes to you to accept online, no pressure.
Accept your estimate and we book you right away. You'll get a text and email with your date and a one-hour arrival window. Reminders follow the day before and the day of, then an on-the-way message with an ETA. The crew knocks to let you know they've arrived.
We put down an algaecide first to kill the organic growth, then pressure wash the patio with a surface cleaner and turbo nozzle. We blow the old joint sand out as close to the bottom of the pavers as we can. The deeper we clean it out, the better the new sand bonds. If the patio has rust staining from well water or metal furniture, we can clear it with a rust removal treatment first. Then the patio has to dry completely before we do anything else.
We install the polymeric sand to the manufacturer's instructions. It's swept into the joints and kept an eighth of an inch below the beveled top edge of the paver, never filled to the top. Then we wet it and let it harden.
We spray on the water-based sealer in the wet look or clear finish you picked. This is the last visit.
The crew marks the job finished and lets you know, then rolls up the hoses and packs up. Your invoice follows. If anything about the work isn't right, we want to hear about it.
We price paver sealing by the square footage of your patio. The exact number comes from your free estimate, once we've looked up the address or seen a few photos.
Most patio restorations average around $1,400. That covers all three stages, the clean, the sand, and the seal. The width of your joints moves it, because wider joints take more sand.
Paver sealing isn't part of our 10% three-service discount, so no discount applies to this one. That discount does apply to other work, though, like a house wash or roof cleaning booked together.
We stand by our work. If something isn't right because of something we did, we'll come back and make it right, no runaround. Send us a photo first, we'll come look if we need to, and we'll figure out whether it came from our work. If it did, we fix it.
The sealer lasts about three to five years. The polymeric sand is sold as a 15-year product, but we tell customers five to ten years. A stone-dust base holds moisture and keeps the sand from fully curing, which shortens how long it stays firm.
Send us a photo and we'll stop by to see what's going on. If it's our workmanship, we fix it. Sand wearing down over the years is normal, though, not a defect. A base that was laid wrong by another contractor isn't something we can take on either, but we'll come out and explain what's happening in person.
