Chemical Dunce needs help

[Phil Robinson]

This probably aint rocket science to you guys, but can you help me?
I have a damp proofing company here in Turkey, and I wish to make my own injection fluid for rising damp in buildings. Everybody else is making it and I understand by looking at technical data, that I need Potassium silicate and Potassium Hydroxide. Does this sound about right to you, and what should happen if the two are mixed and pumped into an alkali substrate, ie brick? am I on the right tracks or have I lost the plot totally and liable to blow Turkey off the map?Also is there a difference between Potassium methyl silicate and Potassium silicate? Loads of questions but I know the formula is not a massive secret as there are 1000s of companies making this stuff without chemical factories. I am determined to find out the formula, which as I say is not a guarded recipe. Any help on this question will be greatly appreciated. cheers all!!

[peter]

This probably aint rocket science to you guys, but can you help me?
I have a damp proofing company here in Turkey, and I wish to make my own injection fluid for rising damp in buildings. Everybody else is making it and I understand by looking at technical data, that I need Potassium silicate and Potassium Hydroxide. Does this sound about right to you, and what should happen if the two are mixed and pumped into an alkali substrate, ie brick? am I on the right tracks or have I lost the plot totally and liable to blow Turkey off the map?Also is there a difference between Potassium methyl silicate and Potassium silicate? Loads of questions but I know the formula is not a massive secret as there are 1000s of companies making this stuff without chemical factories. I am determined to find out the formula, which as I say is not a guarded recipe. Any help on this question will be greatly appreciated. cheers all!!

There is a big difference between potassium methyl silicate and potassium silicate. Only potassium methyl silicate forms a continuous barrier to the passage of rising moisture, producing a water-repellent silicone resin network within the capillaries of the substrate.

[Phil Robinson]

Thank you very much Peter, I will make methyl silicate my target.