# Paver cleaning, sanding and sealing

**URL:** <https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/t/paver-cleaning-sanding-and-sealing/40987>\
**Category:** Residential\
**Created:** [July 24, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/t/paver-cleaning-sanding-and-sealing/40987 "2026-07-24T16:41:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![spaceclean](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/user_avatar/pressurewashingresource.com/spaceclean/32/30228_2.png) [@spaceclean](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/u/spaceclean)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/t/paver-cleaning-sanding-and-sealing/40987/1 "2026-07-24T16:41:46Z")

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Hello y’all,

After running the surface cleaner and turbo on pavers to clean and prepare them to dry before patting polymeric sanding and setting. What do you do to prevent

-Pesky weeds in between pavers that will clearly regrow right through new polymeric sand. Do you

A. Spray the weeds with poison

B. Burn the weeds

C. Take no action and let the weeds grow back through the polymeric sand in some weeks or days

—- ANTS; WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE PESKY

What to do before sealing? @Racer

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**Author:** ![mwpws](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/user_avatar/pressurewashingresource.com/mwpws/32/33836_2.png) [@mwpws](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/u/mwpws)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://pressurewashingresource.com/community/t/paver-cleaning-sanding-and-sealing/40987/2 "2026-07-25T12:10:39Z")

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pluck any weed stems that are left before sanding. If you use good and and water it right and it gets good and hard the weeds wont get through. As far as ants, ants will be ants