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Finding rust stains on the balcony of your house always creates a bit of apprehension, by its nature rust tends to corrode metals if action is not taken promptly.
Let’s see how we can intervene and if we have natural products available.
How rust is formed
It is quite common to find rust on many of our objects located outside our home, as well as on the balcony.
In fact, it can appear in parts of our car, in some metal chairs, in the rake and even on the bicycle.
Traces of rust can start to form on all these things, it is quite common, but why does this happen? Oxidation occurs due to oxidation, when iron reacts with oxygen and water the first traces of oxidation appear.
Water can accelerate this process because it introduces more oxygen to the iron that absorbs it, since the iron is found in the material that makes up the balcony.
The three elements that cause rust on any surface are: iron, water and oxygen. Since two of these occur naturally outside and our balcony is made of iron, it is easy for it to rust this way.
Although rust is unpleasant and difficult to treat, you can follow some simple steps to make it disappear, some of these steps you can read below.
Use rust inhibitor
The first thing many people do is use an oxidation inhibitor , there are many on the market and they work quite well.
Simply add a small amount of the product to the rusty area and then rub.
In some cases the product will have to remain in place perhaps all night, in other cases they will be able to eliminate the problem immediately.
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