What do McDonald fries, a margarita glass, and your home have in common? All three have salt on them; now, a delicious occurrence for the first two, but a horrific situation for the last. The ionic compound, NaCl, is welcomed on our food, but unwelcome on our homes.
Table of Contents
- How Salt Damages Your Home
- Protect Your Home from Salt Damage with Rogall + Co.
How Salt Damages Your Home
Salt is an elemental culprit that harms substrates and coatings on your home. It corrodes metal, as you see the ugly detrimental effects of rust. In addition to destroying metal, it destroys the paint coating on your home, which will lead to substrate exposure and an early decay of your substrates.
Salt, also known by its compound name Sodium Chloride (one sodium atom and one chlorine atom), is abundant in the air, especially in coastal climates. When salt, air, and water land on a surface very bad things begin to happen. A process called corrosion occurs, scientifically speaking, the surface (metal, for example) will undergo a process called oxidation, in which it begins to lose electrons, resulting in destabilization.
Salt damage has a three-step process of absorption, hydration, and crystallization. Absorption occurs when salt is drawn into or attaches to substrates and coatings on your home such as wood, metal, stucco, and paint. Hydration occurs when salt absorbs moisture from the air, leading to the formation of salt crystals on your home.
Finally, crystallization occurs as the salt crystals expand and, in doing so, exert pressure on the surrounding material. This process can lead salt deposits on your home to cause cracks and deterioration in the paint, wood, or other substrates and coatings.
Protect Your Home from Salt Damage with Rogall + Co.
Coastal homes are particularly vulnerable to damage caused by salt with a wide range of substrates, and coatings being regularly affected. The salt corrodes the paint film, which is your only protection for the substrate underneath. Paint is your “insurance policy against damage”
Salt deposits will continue to build on the surface of your home over time and continue causing exponential damages; expansion and contraction naturally occur, and your paint needs to remain as elastic as possible.
The best way to remedy salt damage and prevent it from occurring before it starts is to have all of the surfaces of your home washed thoroughly to remove salt deposits, every year or two. Rogall + Co. is your Elemental Defense Firm that will defend your home against salt.
Peace of mind comes when you know for certain that salty villain has been rebuffed, and cannot destroy your home. Only then, may you truly enjoy your delicious fries and margarita.
