what's this

[Dolly Llama]

 

[Mikey P]

Its a xmas miracle that an old codger like you coild figire out how to post a picture from your cell phone.

Is what it is.

 

[Mikey P]

Some clues would be helpful..

 

[Dolly Llama]

This is at a friend's house
he asked me to look at it...

tile is on a slab
he had a flood in that room in May.
Serve Pro did the dry down
they noticed the effervescence 4 months later.
She cleaned it and it came back a month or later


..L.T.A.

 

[Dolly Llama]

Its a xmas miracle that an old codger like you coild figire out how to post a picture from your cell phone.

waddn't a mirricul...c you walked me thru it

it would of been a miracle if i figured out HOW to do it MYSELF....

...LT.A.

 

[Desk Jockey]

my guess is the concrete is weeping up minerals through the grout. Efflorence sp?

 

[Jim Martin]

bet if you were to pull a few tiles in the middle you will find a lot of moister still trapped and it is dissolving and breaking down the mastic.....

 

[Desk Jockey]

tile is on a slab
he had a flood in that room in May.
Serve Pro did the dry down
they noticed the effervescence 4 months later.
She cleaned it and it came back a month or later

Did water remain standing on it for a long time? We see it happen whenever water remains on concrete for extended periods of time. 24-48 hours and you can expect some problems with moisture in the concrete. I'm with Jim, pull the tile and see what's going on.

The can always do a calcium chloride text and see if there is too much moisture in the concrete but it sure looks like that's the case.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Taylor-T...ide-3-Test-Value-Pack-625-POP-VP-HD/203419910

 

[GeneMiller]

Definitely looks like concrete is wet.

Gene

 

[Dolly Llama]

Did water remain standing on it for a long time?

couple hours under water

..L.T.A.

 

[Desk Jockey]

That's not too long but maybe it was enough?

For one reason or another you have moisture diffusing through the concrete as vapor.

 

[Dolly Llama]

think we found the source ...had nothing to do with the original dry down .

it's bong water .....
well not really

this is their pool room that rarely gets used or even entered all that often .
in that room in a closet is the water softener ...when regenerating it drains into the connecting crawl space where there's a drain.
That crawl space is also where the well tank is (the source of the original flood when it failed)
Long story a little less long, that drain must be clogged enough that it can't handle all the flow from regenerating softener .

he discovered puddles in the crawl space this morning.....it was dry when we looked at it a few days ago trying to determine where the moisture to cause effervescence was coming from

Mystery solved ...gotta be the softener and slow/no drain.


..L.T.A.

 

[Desk Jockey]

he discovered puddles in the crawl space this morning.....it was dry when we looked at it a few days ago trying to determine where the moisture to cause effervescence was coming from

That makes a lot more sense. Had it sat over night or for days then I'd say it was associated to the original water loss.

 

[Mikey P]

The softener spooge...


On the Vortex that stuff is contained in a tank under the truck. I had a newb employee who used it for filling the Hydroforce...


I nearly shat myself when I caught him.



On the AT it goes into the waste tank