Comments on: 10 Critical Steps & Considerations When Preparing Your Concrete Surface http://www.engraveacrete.com/blog/10-critical-steps-considerations-when-preparing-your-concrete-surface/ Decorative Concrete News & Tips Brought To You by Engrave-A-Crete Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chip Cheagle http://www.engraveacrete.com/blog/10-critical-steps-considerations-when-preparing-your-concrete-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-4475 Chip Cheagle Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:14:29 +0000 http://www.engraveacrete.com/blog/?p=681#comment-4475 It sounds like you have an acrylic sealer on your floor, and most probably a water-based acrylic sealer. Anytime you have moisture concentrated in an area it can cause the sealer to have a milky appearance. Removing the moisture and allowing the area to dry should cause the mark to go away. As far as the plastic container goes, it is probably not the container, but the fact that the container is concentrating moisture in that area - condensation off of a plastic drinking cup for instance. Thanks for the question. It sounds like you have an acrylic sealer on your floor, and most probably a water-based acrylic sealer. Anytime you have moisture concentrated in an area it can cause the sealer to have a milky appearance. Removing the moisture and allowing the area to dry should cause the mark to go away.

As far as the plastic container goes, it is probably not the container, but the fact that the container is concentrating moisture in that area – condensation off of a plastic drinking cup for instance.

Thanks for the question.

]]> By: Magali http://www.engraveacrete.com/blog/10-critical-steps-considerations-when-preparing-your-concrete-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-4459 Magali Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:29:04 +0000 http://www.engraveacrete.com/blog/?p=681#comment-4459 Why does my floor get stains with water and also if I place a plastic container on the floor. Why does my floor get stains with water and also if I place a plastic container on the floor.

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