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Winter, Ice Melt, Salt, and Your Concrete

There’s certainly no shortage of salt and ice melt in use this week in the Kansas City area and with the worst of winter weather yet to come it’s likely that more will be on the roads and on your concrete surfaces for the foreseeable future. Concrete is easily one of the strongest materials we use in our homes but it has its weaknesses and winter tends to expose those in a big way. The problem with salt and ice melt isn’t so much that they damage concrete when they comes in contact with it but what can happen down the road when they get absorbed. At Rock Solid Concrete Sealing Systems, we help Kansas City area homeowners and business owners seal and protect their driveways, decorative concrete surface, and epoxy seal their garage floors to keep the damaging effects of cold weather, salt, and ice melt from staining or worse cracking and corroding concrete.

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Salt and ice melt can damage the surface of concrete as well as the interior when absorbed.

The fact is salt itself is the reason why you see so many potholes and bumps on any given unsealed concrete surface in Kansas City but this doesn’t happen overnight as it takes time to occur. More importantly is what the long term effects of salt and corrosive ice melting chemicals can do which can cost a homeowner a lot of money to replace and more often than not they realize it far too late to have it simply repaired. What salt does best and is the reason we tend to use it in the winter in that it lowers the freezing point of water which is why when you spread salt on ice or snow, it begins to melt rather quickly assuming the temperatures aren’t too low. The problem with this is that when salt and water are mixed and the temperatures fall far below freezing, the frozen water expands at even greater rate than without.

That spells BIG problems for water that is trapped inside of  your concrete surfaces, driveway and/or garage floor as is means that immense pressure is being exerted internally which will eventually come to the surface in the form of cracks but not before it corrodes the concrete and possibly the rebar inside. All of this can be easily avoided by quite simply sealing your concrete with our 25 year guaranteed sealant, our line of decorative concrete seals and our new epoxy floor seal coating which is perfect for weeks like this in Kansas City. Obviously the cold temperatures hinder us from being able to seal any concrete outdoors for the next week of so but if you have a heated garage, we can easily seal it with either our standard concrete seal or our epoxy sealant which provides protection and beauty in as little as one day. Don’t let winter get the best of your concrete, driveway and garage floor and let Rock Solid seal, protect and beautify it with the Kansas City area’s most trusted, lasting and affordable sealing services. Call us today for a quote at (816) 406-5995 or CLICK HERE TO GET A QUOTE USING OUR ONLINE CONTACT FORM. 

Rock Solid Concrete Sealing Systems Seals and Protects Kansas City’s Concrete, Driveways and Garage Floors With Sealants and Epoxy That Lasts For Up To 25 Years Guaranteed

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