White Fuzz On Garage Floor

This white fuzz you are referring to is called efflorescence.

White fuzz on garage floor.

Our house has a poured concrete basement floor. It s caused by water seeping through the wall floor object. Several cracks have occurred in the floor allowing a white foamy substance to seep through all around the cracks. One is easy to clean up and one is not.

Molds can cause health problems including allergies asthma infections and other respiratory reactions. White fuzz or powder appears on the concrete surface. It sounds like you have a chronic efflorescence problem. Mold should be removed as soon as you see it and preventive measures should be put into place to avoid it.

On concrete basement floors a problem with moisture rising up from the wet ground can cause a fuzzy white mold to grow on the surface. We hired a painter who cleaned and power washed the floor treated it with. Q we have efflorescence on the garage floor. And the thing is i heard that you have vinegar and water to clean it up.

Say on one of your previous shows i heard that you got i got this white mold or fuzz that grows on the cement floor in the basement. Efflorescence is a process where salts leach out of the concrete carried by water and end up on the surface as a white dusty residue. Why would a white fuzz i am assuming its a mold grow on my concrete floor in my shop in any area after water has been on it and dried. The water dissolves salts inside the object while moving through it then evaporates leaving the salt on the surface.

White mold vs efflorescence. They can look very similar though. White efflorescence caused by high water movement pushing salts out of a concrete floor slab. Do you know the difference between white mold and efflorescence.

People often confuse the two but they are in fact very different substances. Efflorescence is a white crystalline or powdery often fluffy fuzzy deposit on the surface of masonry materials like concrete brick clay tile etc.