The Reason Your Garage Floor Paint Has Begun To Peel Away
Generally, when someone notices that their garage floor paint is peeling, they want to blame the product. They assume that, since the paint is beginning to flake off, it has to be due to faulty garage floor paint. This is not always the case. In reality, most garage floor paint will not peel, even if it is cheaply made or incorrectly installed; it will usually dull or rub off instead. For the most part, garage floor paint that is peeling is suffering from a moisture issue.
Epoxy Garage Floor Paint And Moisture
Epoxy will definitely insure the protect of your garage floor's concrete from moisture and humidity in air, but doesn't have any defense against moisture from under. Epoxy is made to have a seal-like ability that is able to prevent moisture from most origins from penetrating through, almost completely. For example, if oil were to drip on the garage flooring, it would not be able to penetrate through the epoxy paint, and as a result the concrete will not have absorbed it and can just be cleaned up.
Concrete Is Porous
Your concrete garage floor's sides and bottom and underground, and that means it will absorb moisture from the ground. And if you are worried about stains, don't be because they would be on the underside of the concrete. The problem though is that water always tries to find a way to evaporate, and that isn't very ideal. Do you recall that seal-like ability that the epoxy floor coating creates? This seal won't release water any sooner than it would let it in. And the moisture from the water around the concrete begins to make its own way to the top, the surface, it starts to pop up under the epoxy paint. Naturally, this creates bubbles that continue to collect more water until they burst, creating that peeling problem we were talking about before.
Epoxy Garage Floor Paint: Killed By Humidity?
There are some area related factors that cause the dreaded peeling effect. Generally speaking, humidity plays a leading role. If you live in an area that is humid, most everything will stay damp, along with the earth under the concrete and also any wood that has not been treated that garages are commonly made of. Your concrete garage floor will absorb the moisture from these sources. But this situation can be increased fiercely when water pools from the concrete any where around your garage.
Ground Water Is Water, Too
The height of the local water table can also affect garage floor paint. The water table is, put very simply (and not entirely correctly), the top of the ground water. If the water table is high, then the ground water sits close to the bottom of your concrete garage floor, which means water is far more likely to soak through. Does your area's soil stay somewhat moist, even when in a drought? Odds are pretty good that the water table sits high. - 21392
Epoxy Garage Floor Paint And Moisture
Epoxy will definitely insure the protect of your garage floor's concrete from moisture and humidity in air, but doesn't have any defense against moisture from under. Epoxy is made to have a seal-like ability that is able to prevent moisture from most origins from penetrating through, almost completely. For example, if oil were to drip on the garage flooring, it would not be able to penetrate through the epoxy paint, and as a result the concrete will not have absorbed it and can just be cleaned up.
Concrete Is Porous
Your concrete garage floor's sides and bottom and underground, and that means it will absorb moisture from the ground. And if you are worried about stains, don't be because they would be on the underside of the concrete. The problem though is that water always tries to find a way to evaporate, and that isn't very ideal. Do you recall that seal-like ability that the epoxy floor coating creates? This seal won't release water any sooner than it would let it in. And the moisture from the water around the concrete begins to make its own way to the top, the surface, it starts to pop up under the epoxy paint. Naturally, this creates bubbles that continue to collect more water until they burst, creating that peeling problem we were talking about before.
Epoxy Garage Floor Paint: Killed By Humidity?
There are some area related factors that cause the dreaded peeling effect. Generally speaking, humidity plays a leading role. If you live in an area that is humid, most everything will stay damp, along with the earth under the concrete and also any wood that has not been treated that garages are commonly made of. Your concrete garage floor will absorb the moisture from these sources. But this situation can be increased fiercely when water pools from the concrete any where around your garage.
Ground Water Is Water, Too
The height of the local water table can also affect garage floor paint. The water table is, put very simply (and not entirely correctly), the top of the ground water. If the water table is high, then the ground water sits close to the bottom of your concrete garage floor, which means water is far more likely to soak through. Does your area's soil stay somewhat moist, even when in a drought? Odds are pretty good that the water table sits high. - 21392
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