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Bluetus

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10. Absolutely. And that concrete was saturated with water.

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:34 PM

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Maybe there are coatings that can work on water-saturated concrete, but I would have thought some time would have been needed to lower the moisture in the concrete. That might have been a good time to renovate or update the filtration system.

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