Concrete slide bubbling up

[jared1]

Hey everyone thanks for the response.

I have a concrete slide that has been scraped down to the bare concrete and repainted 2x professionally. There willing to come out again to repair it but before they do I would like to fix it permanently. For some reason the bottom half of the continues to bubble up after 7 months. They use the brand Ramuc to seal it. Any suggestions to prevent the bubbling from happening again?

Thx again

 

[kimkats]

Hi and sorry to be meeting because of a problem. I do have to wonder if it has to do with the prep before they paint. Maybe they are doing or not doing something that is keeping the paint from sticking to the concrete.
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I am going to ping someone that might know: @AQUA~HOLICS any ideas or help on this?

 

[jared1]

It's only the bottom half of the slide that bubbles up. The top half is fine. For prep they remove all the paint to the concrete

 

[kimkats]

okay so lets go with that...............is there any way water is splashing up on the bottom half of the slide? How about sun/shade? Is the bottom half more in or out of the sun than the top half? There HAS to be a reason so lets see what is what with the above ideas.

 

[jared1]

okay so lets go with that...............is there any way water is splashing up on the bottom half of the slide? How about sun/shade? Is the bottom half more in or out of the sun than the top half? There HAS to be a reason so lets see what is what with the above ideas.

Thanks for your help

So the bottom half is a little bit shadier than the top. I'm sure water is splashing the bottom half but then again it's a slide and it's made for water (said in a nice way)

 

[kimkats]

I mean is water splashing on it right after the slide is treated. Maybe it is slightly wet from dew or splash out when they are treating it? There HAS to be a reason the bottom part is messing up.

Shady/not shady-can you feel a major temp difference in the two parts of the slide? Any idea of the time of day they treated the slide the last two times?

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

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[jared1]

I mean is water splashing on it right after the slide is treated. Maybe it is slightly wet from dew or splash out when they are treating it? There HAS to be a reason the bottom part is messing up.

Shady/not shady-can you feel a major temp difference in the two parts of the slide? Any idea of the time of day they treated the slide the last two times?

1st time they drained and cleaned the pool of all the calcium so by the time the finished it was maybe mid late afternoon. 2nd the redid it it was done by early afternoon. Not a huge difference in temp but maybe your on to something.

I was thinking the last initial concrete installation wasn't done correctly.

We bought the house 2.5 years ago as well and the paint was chipped then hence we are at this point

 

[kimkats]

I am thinking @Rancho Cost-a-Lotta is on to something. Might want to give that a go and see what happens!