Over time, water collecting on garage floor will eat away the concrete. |
| 3/26/2008 8:10:53 AM |
Water collecting on garage floor can be hard on the concrete, so if you have a leaky washer, hot water heater, or evaporative cooler that drips water on your garage floor, you could have concrete damage over time. Water in parts of the US is very hard, and this water can be corrosive to concrete, and it can eat the surface away if allowed to sit there for any length of time. The best thing to do to avoid water collecting on garage floor is to fix the leak, but short of that, you can coat it with garage floor treatments that make the surface impervious to water and other damaging liquids that may spill on it. These treatments seal the surface, making them nonporous.
If you do not want to go to those lengths, you can get a garage containment floor mat for drips, but that usually means you have to move the offending appliance to put the mat under them. If that is not difficult for you, it would be an easier and less expensive alternative to garage floor treatments. Sealing a garage floor involves cleaning it with abrasive, grease cutting chemicals, and then meticulously sweeping or vacuuming them to get all the loose debris up, like dust, sand, and dirt, so the garage floor treatments make a complete seal. |
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