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Patio concrete sweating
Posted by LSURoss on 2/13/18 at 6:18 pm00
Our patio has always "sweated" and this spring I am finally going to try and fix it.
Does anyone have any recommendations on products, procedures, tips or tricks?
Seems like everything I Google is just a particular brands blog post about why their product is best.
TIA
Does anyone have any recommendations on products, procedures, tips or tricks?
Seems like everything I Google is just a particular brands blog post about why their product is best.
TIA
re: Patio concrete sweatingPosted by QuietTiger on 2/13/18 at 6:21 pm to LSURoss
Next page down, no visqueen?
re: Patio concrete sweatingPosted by WPsportsman on 2/13/18 at 6:21 pm to LSURoss
Good luck this is Louisiana. Just watched the weather and looks like sweating weather for a while
re: Patio concrete sweatingPosted by DownshiftAndFloorIt on 2/13/18 at 6:42 pm to LSURoss
Run a steam trace through the slab to keep it warm
2 rules of concrete in the south: It’s going to crack and it’s going to sweat. Not much you can do about the sweating other than provide a vapor barrier under the slab (which any contractor who knows anything would have already done) or move your slab to Montana. There are also surface epoxys and coating you can try to stifle the sweating. But that’s about it. Pay no attention to others who may pop in here with differing opinions. For they are grossly ignorant on the subject.
Thanks. The house as built in 71 and I have no idea if it has a vapor barrier. There are a range of products out there that Rande from $20/gal to $90/gal.
This all started when my wife said she wants to paint the patio.
Home ownership!!
This all started when my wife said she wants to paint the patio.
Home ownership!!
quote:im glad we have established that a vapor barrier doesn’t stop the concrete from former no condensation
Not much you can do about the sweating other than provide a vapor barrier under the slab (which any contractor who knows anything would have already done) or move your slab to Montana.
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re: Patio concrete sweatingPosted by Chad504boy on 2/13/18 at 7:16 pm to AlxTgr
Everybody put a bucket on concrete
quote:To prevent moisture movement through concrete from down to up. This is important when flooring is applied. It's as if you didn't even read the other thread. Do you still not understand condensation?
you’re a riot. Why do they put visqueen under concrete?
quote:then the condensation would form on the sealer.
one has any recs on a sealer? Just arguments about vapor barriers?
The moisture is coming from the top not the bottom
On a slippery scale it would be somewhere between otter snot and that shite Chevy Chase sprayed on his sled if you put a coating on it
This post was edited on 2/13 at 7:24 pm
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