[JerryLBell]

We recently bought a new house in The Villages and are getting it ready for renters as we won't be retiring and moving there for about 2 years. While the house is gorgeous and ready to go, we found the concrete for the lanai and garage floors to be very raw and dusty. In the long run, we may do something fancy with the lanai floor but for now we're mostly interested in just getting them painted or sealed somehow to keep concrete dust from being tracked into the house.

We've requested bids from a couple of companies recommended in this forum. One cam back with a modest price for basic clear sealant on both surfaces. The other came back with reasons why both paint and sealant are bad for both surfaces and recommended different types of coverings for each surface that would, I'll admit, probably look a lot nicer for a lot longer. But it also increased the price by nearly tenfold.

Has here anybody had a clear sealant applied to a lanai floor or a garage floor? What did you like about it or not like about it? Would you recommend we go this route or leave them both bare and raw until we can swing the much higher cost of the fancier surfacing?

Thanks in advance for any helpful replies!