A concrete slab kitchen floor is sitting about a yard below grade and in good rains hydrostatic pressure puts just enough moisture to discolor areas of the slab a spell then dissipates.
Would a sealer remedy this?
Thanks
A concrete slab kitchen floor is sitting about a yard below grade and in good rains hydrostatic pressure puts just enough moisture to discolor areas of the slab a spell then dissipates.
Would a sealer remedy this?
Thanks
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Not likely, imho.
Most sealers will just push up off the slab and loose adhesion.
You sure it is not condensation from the high moisture content of the air (when it is humid and raining) that is condensing on the cool slab of the kitchen?
Is there a finish on the floor?
Same slab seperated by a livingroom wall has no discoloration in the LR area and sealer still carries a gloss appearence there in the LR,
but the kitchen area the gloss is almost totally void.
gotta run
Edited 7/26/2009 10:01 am ET by rez
"Would a sealer remedy this?"
Not like a perimeter drain and VB under the crete will.
"gotta run"
Why, water getting deep?
;)
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Yeah, you need to make the rainwater go somewhere else. Shovel, drain pipe, gravel, filter cloth, elbow grease, etc.