I enjoyed my old post about a garage floor in need of repair, so decided to do some searching on horrible garage stories.
Searching around, I found myself in this message board thread, wherein a woman discloses the following problem.
My husband charges his golf cart in the garage. In doing so, the battery acid has spilled onto the floor of the garage. I’ve put those drip pans underneath, but of course, it eats thru them as well. Bottom line, we are down to the dirt, literally.
First of all, the casual nature by which she mentioned her husband’s golf cart made me laugh. She said it like owning a golf cart was a common thing, and the oddity was that he chose to charge it in the garage, as opposed to outside (or elsewhere).
Maybe this isn’t as funny if you live on a golf course – I don’t, so I wouldn’t know.
In any case, the real question I have: how do you let this go on long enough that you get all the way down to dirt? Don’t you go to your golf cart dealership at some point and say, “hey, this battery leaks”? Or check on the “acid eating away the floor” thing a little earlier?
I dunno – I thought this was interesting, and still have no new pics from the people upstairs, so this is the post.
Speaking of them, I emailed someone here at Floorguard to see if epoxy flooring would take care of that problem.
(btw there’s a whole blog about batteries – who knew?)
I learned a little something about the bubbling that can happen on rare occasions when epoxy flooring is applied on a garage.
This was in response to a complaint on our Google Place Page – I asked the higher-ups how I should respond to it, since personally, my knowledge would amount to something like, “Um…oh, that’s weird.”
We should point out that is not our policy to coat the apron and may only do so at the customer’s insistence, after giving a full warning of what can or will happen to the surface over time, so this was his choice. As far as the larger problem is concerned this person indicates that we put cuts into the surface to resolve the problem. We have only done this a few times in our history and always to open the surface to allow water to escape from below.
This is a rare situation where water will push up through the concrete and push a coating off the surface. It is usually due to a high water table or a damaged or nonexistent moisture barrier that should have been installed when the concrete was first poured. We address this in our warranty and estimate documents that hydrostatic pressure is not covered.
This is an unpredictable situation that can only be fixed with the replacement of the concrete and installing a moisture/ vapor barrier. We are sorry that this person is unhappy but there is nothing that any company or product could do to make a coating bond under these circumstances.
The gist is sometimes your garage is messed up beforehand. We do everything we can to target and correct these problems beforehand, but in those rare cases, there’s simply no way to no 100% for sure.
This is the most serious thing I’ve ever written on this blog – talk about working a different set of muscles…!
I’m finding the solution – slowly but surely – behind how this blog is going to flow.
There was a fantastic thread on a message board I found about luxury garages – I can’t link to the particular thread because of unsavory language, but the gist of the thread was that this guy had an old garage that needed rehabbing.
The floor was some combination of busted concrete and dirt/grass. He posted a picture, and frankly the thing looked like an old shack that needed to be torn down.
Nature had started to grow up and engulf it – the whole the was a loss, but he was determined to fix it based on what was there.
Anyway, he posted to the forum asking everyone how much it would cost to get fixed, and this was the first answer.
There is a thing called a telephone with which you can call businesses such as those who work with concrete, perhaps you might try that.
Genius in its simplicity – I like it. I should have some before/after pictures for you of some of our recent jobs soon – stay tuned.
I enjoyed my old post about a garage floor in need of repair, so decided to do some searching on horrible garage stories.
