Efflorescence

[miksar]

I noticed today after color sealing, I had about a dozen of those white spots come through the color seal. I cleaned like usual, put fans on to dry quicker and applied. This is a first for me, what happened? I just applied more sealer over the spots, will wait to see what it looks like tomorrow. If it comes through again am I screwed? I used sealer from GP. TIA

 

[royalkid]

Mike, there's some good info here... http://www.tileusa.com/efflorescence_fa ... iteresidue

Good Luck!

 

[damion68]

Mike, pictures would be more helpful. What was your cleaning process? Just alk or did you also acid and rinse?

Mark

 

[Mikey P]

Hard to imagine efflorescence coming through the Grout perfect.


Please take some Macro photos.

 

[miksar]

I went back today, all the spots that popped up were just around 2 tiles, whew, some came back even after I put more color seal over them, some stayed gone. I reapplied some more sealer, will see if they stay away. I haven't done a whole lot of color sealing, but this never happened before. I guess I don't understand what happened. I have cleaned this floor before, and no problems. I thought the sealer would prevent anything coming up as well as from the top. Sorry, my phone pics suck, I will call GP tomorrow and see what Steve says. I will post what he comes up with.

 

[Fon Johnson]

Are you SURE it is efflorescence (white and powdery) or could it be moisture coming up in spots where the grout was not entirely dry?

 

[miksar]

The gp guys said to remove the spots with the driest possible way and then reapply. But when I went back today to check on them buggers they were gone. I'm a thinking maybe because this was a shoddy job of tile laying, the moisture from the cleaning kinda run all towards these two tiles and settled, and it was wetter than I thought when I applied the sealer. Anyway, no prob. Thanks for reading.

 

[joe harper]

Are you SURE it is efflorescence (white and powdery) or could it be moisture coming up in spots where the grout was not entirely dry?

LIKE THIS..... :shock: Sealer was applied...before pavers were cured.....

 

[TimP]

Love the Crocks.

 

[joe harper]

Thanks,

We couldn't find the purple "KEN SNOW"...Super-Hero crocs...

They were SolD oUt.....