Replacing Cracked Garage Floor

Using a diamond blade on your circular saw cut a 1 2 in deep groove along each side of the crack.

Replacing cracked garage floor. Replacing a cracked and sinking garage floor on an old garage. We have owned our home since it was constructed in 1984. We were going to paint it with a product advertised for use on garage floors. This pitting appears to be from an oil leak.

Whether you re just starting your research or you re looking to try to justify a surprising estimate you got from a contractor by better understanding what s involved you re. As oil seeps in and then allows the cement to. Allow the concrete floor to cure properly. If you plan to cover the garage floor with finished flooring then an epoxy product that fills minor pits and cracks and provides a very hard surface is an option too.

This is for those cases where the structure itself is sound but just that floor needs replacing. Don t throw the baby out with the bathwater they say. A garage floor replacement may be needed simply due to its age. Set up a drain for the garage.

Chip out the cracked portion with a maul and cold chisel. The garage floor is now stained and cracked. Scotty demonstrates how to patch a hole in a cement garage floor. Put in place a vapor barrier.

When a garage floor is first poured the concrete begins to harden contractors say cure and when this process takes place the concrete shrinks a little. Wear an n 95 respirator and turn on a fan to blow the concrete dust out of the garage. If yours is older than that it may be time to seriously consider a garage floor replacement. Fill in the area with gravel 3 4 and compact it.

Significant cracks cracks larger than should be ground out with a masonry wheel and filled with concrete filler. But we called. Garage floor crack repair is probably easier than you think. Install wire mesh or fiber mesh as reinforcement.

Truthfully i should have knocked down the whole thing and rebuilt a new structure. A 20 foot square of freshly poured concrete will shrink about a 1 8 of an inch.