Thread: Cheaper alternative to dryloc

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Has anyone found a cheaper alternative to dryloc? I've already used 2 gallons in the last month and have to go buy more but at 20.00 a gallon it has me wanting to look for an alternative.

What you using it for? Tombstones?

I read somewhere that you could take basic latex paint, throw sand in it and mix it well. That it works just as well. I dunno, I've not tried it. Been too much of a pansy

OOPS paint at Lowes or Walmart and a little sand will work just as well for texture or sealing.

the paint i mix with my mm is $16 a gallon so by comparison dryloc at $20 isn't bad for piece of mind that its really sealed IMO.

robzilla69,

I used to use the full price paint too in my MM, but I've gone the "oops!" paint route myself now. Typically Home Depot or Lowe's discounts a gallon of bad-mixed paint down to just $5 a gallon. And I've been amazed at the number of people who've apparently wanted black paint but decided against it at a later point. I've easily scored 5 or 6 gallons in the last few months alone, and sometimes you can get quarts of it for $1. I have a whole rainbow of tester size jars which go for just $0.50.

I haven't tried the sand-in-the-paint method yet, but I doubt it works as well. It's not the grittiness that makes Drylok work, but rather the rubber and Portland cement additives in the paint that repels the water. Whatever protection you're achieving with the sand-paint mix is probably coming from the paint itself. The sand is undoubtedly just giving you texture.

Now if you picked up a bag of Portland cement mix and added it to you might have something there (you're on you're own when it comes to the rubber).

Rich