anyone else seen this in their garage?

[04silverZ06]

It's a weird 'furry' type stuff that seems to form around the expansion joints in the garage floor. Seems to happen when the weather warms up.

 

[Whitworth]

Efflorescence. Salts leaching out of the concrete and forming fuzz.

 

[racermike]

I get some of that in the basement of my stone foundation house, but not in the garage. Always wondered what it is.

 

[CNGsaves]

The Ghost of Christmas Past !!! . .

 

[Angelfire]

You might look for sources of water under your slab. Efflorescence occurs when the salts are dissolved and carried by water to the surface. While you may not see puddles of water about, the salts are indicative of water migrating through the slab.

 

[04silverZ06]

Thanks all.

I do wash my DD in the garage in the winter; so maybe the salty water is getting in the gaps and with warmer weather expanding back up and through the same spaces?

I will wipe them down with some cleaner.

Glad I have plastic underneath my summer car.

 

[CNGsaves]

Sounds like self-induced saltwater to slab. WHERE you located ??

Update GJ Profile with City/State/Country.

 

[Speed4Life]

I just noticed some of that stuff in my garage the other day at the opening just in front of where the door comes down on the left and right side of the garage. Couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was. I've never seen it in my garage before, but the recent horrible snow and continuous rain here lately might be the contributing factor in my case.

 

[PugetDude]

It's a weird 'furry' type stuff that seems to form around the expansion joints in the garage floor. Seems to happen when the weather warms up.

Move out before it's too late...

 

[04silverZ06]

Sounds like self-induced saltwater to slab. WHERE you located ??

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I'm in Ontario Canada - has been a rough winter here with lots of salt on the roads.

 

[gungatim]

get it in my garage every winter where the wife parks. from the salt and water melting. hose her down and squeegee it out every spring...

 

[kbs2244]

Whitworth has the answer
"Efflorescence. Salts leaching out of the concrete and forming fuzz."
and gungatim has the solution.

The salt in the slush soaks into the concrete and the humidiity in the spring brings it out.

 

[Caman]

get it in my garage every winter where the wife parks. from the salt and water melting. hose her down and squeegee it out every spring...

Is anybody else picturing gungatim's wife being hosed down and sqeegeed?

 

[Marctrees]

Is anybody else picturing gungatim's wife being hosed down and sqeegeed?

 

[Grimly]

Is anybody else picturing gungatim's wife being hosed down and sqeegeed?

Exactly that.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Efflorescence. Salts leaching out of the concrete and forming fuzz.

Got it on the first try!
There's a source of dampness under the slab and it creeps up through the expansion joints and pulls the efflorescence out with it.

Tommy

 

[iahawk]

Yep, I get the same thing in my garage every winter, too. (Yours is a lot fuzzier, though).
Winter snow with salt melting off the cars and soaking into the expansion joints.

I've always wondered if there was a way to neutralize it with some vinegar or other acid? Kind of like the products available to commercial buildings to neutralize all the snow melt that gets tracked in the doors.

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

I get the same condition in my garage during the winter... salt related (don't think its coming up from under the concrete in my case). A good spring cleaning and mopping remedies it until the next winter..

 

[90zcar]

Hey I get this **** on my garage floor anytime I get water in the garage from a heavy rain/etc. I will post pics then


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[Lassen Forge]

It's how we knew we had a water problem behind our old retaining wall (which was a common wall to our one car garage way back when). The water behind it was leaching the salts thru the concrete. fixed the old retaining wall drainage (the french drain had collapsed), real PITA to do, but as soon as the "pit" was able to drain the fluorescence stopped.