Why The Garage Floor Paint Has Started 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.
The Effect Of Moisture On Epoxy Garage Floor Paint
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 Absorbs Liquids
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 a few different factors that are area related that can cause this peeling effect. Overall humidity can play a large part. If the area is humid, then everything stays a bit damp, including the ground and any untreated wood that the garage is made of. Concrete will slowly absorb moisture from both of these sources. The situation will be multiplied dramatically if water is able to pool against the concrete in any place.
Ground Water Can Also Affect Epoxy Garage Floors
The height of your water table can also affect the garage floor coating. The water table is, put loosely, the surface of the ground water. If the water table sits high, this means that the water is sitting close to the bottom of your concrete, and the water will try to use the relatively porous garage flooring to make its way to the surface to evaporate. If the soil in your area tends to stay relatively moist, even when the earth is cracking only a few miles away from a heavy drought, then beware. It’s very likely that you have a high water table.
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