Recent content by 94runner

Hey @tylerclayton Sorry to hear you're going through a similar brown spot / stain issue. I take it the brown is sort of seeping up from the concrete through the epoxy coating? That's what was happening to me, and like you said, seeping up through my concrete. And the smell / odor...never...

Hi. Sorry to see others having similar issues to me, but in some ways provides me some sanity that I'm not making all this up :) I had this moisture barrier applied: https://www.elitecrete.com/wp-content/uploads/TD.468-Technical-Data-E100-VB5-Waterborne-Epoxy-Vapor-Barrier.pdf But still have...

Hey Paul. Looks very very similar to my floor. I have spoken to many folks, and the thought is a moisture issue in the concrete slab which is pushing it's way up through the epoxy. Or could be oil in the concerete slab pushing it's way up. Either way, no real good fix other. I wish I would...

@BillK Thanks for the reply...appreciate you and everyone taking time to comment! I'll try chiseling out a bigger portion to separate the epoxy from the concrete. I just don't want to go through another grind and then if it's not good, will have to do the concrete anyway. The floor wasn't in...

Hi all...tks for the comments...appreciate it! For almost a year I thought it was the drywall, and maybe still is to a point. But I painted multiple times, including odor blocking primer (no not BIN, but a Kilz Max/ Restoration...not as good as BIN, but low VOC). Back to the floor, I...

Tks for the responses! @irislevy I rented a Hydroxyl generator. It's very similar to Ozone, but safer to breathe (but don't intentionally stay in the room). Ran for two weeks. Helped initially, but smell returned. Actually the walls smelled much better. @BillK No smell at all prior to this...

Hi. For me, pulling up the floor means chopping and repouring. I'm fairly confident the smell is the floor, as when I chiseled some of the floor up and put the epoxy coating in a jar, the smell definitely is there. But yes...it could have absorbed into that walls, but at this point I need my...

Hi all. Update on my situation and questions. My original doesn't want to come back to look at the issue. No show on three days he was supposed to come by and ghosting my calls. Funny...I called from a different phone, he didn't pick up, but called back 10 min later asking who it is. Once he...

Hi all! Quick update on my odor / brown spot Epoxy floor: I got a plastic tarp and covered the floor for a few day. Didn't totally seal the floor. The odor got a little better, but still there I scrapped up a small sample of the floor and placed it in a small plastic cup and covered with...

@slimpickins SP...THANK YOU for taking the time to look into my issue and sharing your thoughts...much appreciated! Interesting article...agree if it's from under the epoxy, would need to seal there. I actually did still have a smell once they grinded off the original polyaspartic, but...

Hi All! Wanted to share an update on my garage odor issue from summer 2021, which is still here after one year! Since I last posted in Jan 2022: 1. In May repainted the garage walls / ceiling with two coats primer and two coats Ben Moore Regal --> No help 2. All Summer: Kept the garage open a...

Hi all! I've also been living with a VOC / smell problem for over a year and also on Long Island. You can search for my posts, but long story short, Contractor "A" applied a polyaspartic floor which had a horrible odor which consumed my house. After three weeks I still could not breathe in my...

Hi @Port Sorry for the delay in responding...was out of town. I used a product called Elite Crete. As I mentioned above, the Manufacturer Client Rep said this can happen if you have moisture / oil under the garage floor cement slab, even with a standard vapor barrier. However it's not just...

@egdede Thanks for the reply...appreciate it! Maybe pressure isn't the the right word. I guess what the epoxy rep meant was that with the floor sealed the oil would build up and push through the epoxy. Where before the epoxy, there was not the same build up. I can't say I understand it all...

Hi all. Mystery solved! I finally spoke to the epoxy manufacturer, who said the brown spots are oil from the garage concrete slab forcing it's way up through the epoxy. Although my cars don't leak, my house is 70 years old and likely oil in the concrete from years of leaks from previous...