I spent days preparing my basement floor to apply acid stain. I cleaned, I used a power scrubber, I cleaned some more. I applied the acid stain, it seemed to take well. I then neutralized with baking soda/water and mopped 3 more times with clean water. Lastly, I used a garden sprayer to apply acrylic sealer. I'll admit, I probably went pretty heavy. When I left, the house stunk (to be expected, at least we're not living there yet), and the floor definately had that wet-look I'd like to end up with. This morning (about 16 hours later), I returned to find half the floor to have that wet-look. However, the rest of the floor looks like I didn't apply any sealer at all; but I did, just as heavy. Any ideas? I hate to be so close, yet so far away from a finished floor. The wet-look area is literally a solid section of good looking floor. The other part doesn't even have a puddle of wet-look.

We want to enclose outdoor patio. We have beautiful natural stone Pillars, which are not plumb. From top to bottom there is a difference of 1 inch. The Bi-fold doors we want to install requires plumb surface. How do we make the stone pillar ever from top to bottom? Thank you.