Scott Winners
05-14-2022, 2:56 PM
Poked around in the old threads a bit, most of those are about petroleum staining.
What I have is a 40 years old house. We have lots and lots of iron in our water. Under the water heater and boiler we have brown stains on the slab garage floor, 40 years worth.
Water heater and boiler are getting replaced next week. The plan is our boiler guy is going to take the old boiler and old water heater out on Day One. Then he will come up with a plan and go shopping for valves and expansion tanks and so on. Boiler guy returns on Day Two @ 0800 to reassemble the new components. We will be without domestic hot water for one night.
I have from about 1400 on Day One to 0800 on Day Two to get into that corner of the garage.
Chores I would like to get done:
Priority one:
scrape texture from ceiling, prime and paint.
clean copper piping of accumulated grime.
clean wiring of accumulated grime
clean walls of accumulated grime
prime and paint walls
replace 120vac three receptacles and one switch
replace dryer vent pipe - runs behind the water heater in the corner.
Priority two
Do 'something' about the brown iron staining on the concrete floor in that corner of the garage
Inspect legacy circuit for electric water heater original to house.
I am not going to try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. This is a 40 year old suburban house, not economical to turn it into a new build McMansion. My thinking is if I get the visible stuff, eye level and up, looking good; then having legacy stains on the floor shouldn't be a problem. We are planning on a square of closed cell foam on the floor or a water heater stand to defeat thermal bridging, then a catch pan on that for the water heater to sit in and on.
**Is there a simple and fast way to maybe clean that corner of the floor without going bananas on stain removal with time I don't really have?**
Thanks
FWIW the garage slab is cool enough in the winter that I just set my incoming beer on the floor to cool it down to consuming temperature. Water will continue to be heated by a loop in the boiler, the water heater is just a storage tank.
What I have is a 40 years old house. We have lots and lots of iron in our water. Under the water heater and boiler we have brown stains on the slab garage floor, 40 years worth.
Water heater and boiler are getting replaced next week. The plan is our boiler guy is going to take the old boiler and old water heater out on Day One. Then he will come up with a plan and go shopping for valves and expansion tanks and so on. Boiler guy returns on Day Two @ 0800 to reassemble the new components. We will be without domestic hot water for one night.
I have from about 1400 on Day One to 0800 on Day Two to get into that corner of the garage.
Chores I would like to get done:
Priority one:
scrape texture from ceiling, prime and paint.
clean copper piping of accumulated grime.
clean wiring of accumulated grime
clean walls of accumulated grime
prime and paint walls
replace 120vac three receptacles and one switch
replace dryer vent pipe - runs behind the water heater in the corner.
Priority two
Do 'something' about the brown iron staining on the concrete floor in that corner of the garage
Inspect legacy circuit for electric water heater original to house.
I am not going to try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. This is a 40 year old suburban house, not economical to turn it into a new build McMansion. My thinking is if I get the visible stuff, eye level and up, looking good; then having legacy stains on the floor shouldn't be a problem. We are planning on a square of closed cell foam on the floor or a water heater stand to defeat thermal bridging, then a catch pan on that for the water heater to sit in and on.
**Is there a simple and fast way to maybe clean that corner of the floor without going bananas on stain removal with time I don't really have?**
Thanks
FWIW the garage slab is cool enough in the winter that I just set my incoming beer on the floor to cool it down to consuming temperature. Water will continue to be heated by a loop in the boiler, the water heater is just a storage tank.