Patio concrete sweating

Good luck this is Louisiana. Just watched the weather and looks like sweating weather for a while

Jesus, I didn't see that other cluster frick of a thread until just now.

2 rules of concrete in the south: It’s going to crack and it’s going to sweat. Not much you can do about the sweating other than provide a vapor barrier under the slab (which any contractor who knows anything would have already done) or move your slab to Montana. There are also surface epoxys and coating you can try to stifle the sweating. But that’s about it. Pay no attention to others who may pop in here with differing opinions. For they are grossly ignorant on the subject.

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This all started when my wife said she wants to paint the patio.

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Absolutely not!! You will be painting again, and again, and again! Tear it out, put in colored concrete. Will cost more, but you will enjoy the results.

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Not much you can do about the sweating other than provide a vapor barrier under the slab (which any contractor who knows anything would have already done)

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Dude, just stop. You're not too old to learn something.

Must’ve been Otis. I get y’all confused

Carry on

So no one has any recs on a sealer? Just arguments about vapor barriers?

Everybody put a bucket on concrete

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one has any recs on a sealer? Just arguments about vapor barriers?

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then the condensation would form on the sealer.

The moisture is coming from the top not the bottom

On a slippery scale it would be somewhere between otter snot and that shite Chevy Chase sprayed on his sled if you put a coating on it